Hi Simon
The stats are collected by the Forum software , they're not something we have written and it's not something we can change - if you look for "SMF statistics collection" on Google that would give you all the technical detail I'm sure ( I've not looked
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The Topic views are skewed because some areas are public which means that search engines will look at them. So if you were to put Lancia Stratos for Sale then this will ( probably ) be viewed lots of times because it's something searched for a lot on Google and Google reads our forum*
As for the 3,000 new members, this may be back when we stopped online registration and went to people emailing form admin - we were suffering from a lot of automated registrations that were having to be cancelled. Going to emails meant that only real people were likely to do this ( and this works fine - you see us announcing new members ).
Looking at the number of posts, it may be that more happens on the forum in winter that in the summer months - or did I just have a quick look and jump to conclusions
- I also had a look a Trending - but can't see anything so I think that is a no-go.
*Apologies to anyone not from the LMC who has just been directed here by Google who was looking to buy this model of car ...
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I've done a similar thing with a spreadsheet containing members by region by join/leave date so that it's easy to see how the membership has altered over time at a very granular level - this too suffers a large spike in 1990 and this is because the original computer system gave a membership start date of 1990 and not their actual start date
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For anyone who hasn't looked at the stats page , it's here
http://www.lancia.myzen.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=stats