Most users ever online was 425, Yesterday at 09:30 PM.

That’s awesome

The compete site analytic tool (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/draftanimalpower.com/) shows the number of unique visitors per month fluctuates somewhat, but is generally between 3000 and 7000 visitors per month. Unique visits have picking up lately, Sept 2012 was the lowest in the last year with only 3270 visits per month, Oct went up to 4011, Nov 2012 was 4588, and Dec 2012 numbers aren’t in yet. Still, we have a ways to go to attract the number of unique visitors that we had in Jan 2012 (7227 visits). Perhaps this 425 visitors is actifactual. If not, perhaps this means we are engaging repeat visitors to a higher degree. This could cause the number of users online at a given moment to increase without increasing the number of unique visits.

Sure Mike,
July had 5892 unique visits. From a seasonal point of view, it looks like activity is lowest in early fall and, moderate thoughout the summer, and fluctates wildly in the winter.

Good point, Mark. 1/3 of the way to Rural Heritage is strong work. Here’s another comparison. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/smallfarmersjournal.com/
Note the difference between a site that has a strong message board and one that does not. All these comparisons are apples to oranges to some degree, but there is still much we can learn from them.