RE: PH Sunday Service: 16/9/2012

[touching cloth]

697 ... <prepares Eastenders style drum solo>

[muckymotor]

Woohoo, just got in

[dele]

Squeezed myself in

[LukeSi]

Ah well. I had put my name down but can't get the time off work anyway. So I'm off again. Shame, seemed like a good one.

[Waugh-terfall]

Life Saab Itch said:

Not that you'll turn down the homemade goodies...


Tom, what is the range on the twizy? Would it get you here, but not back?

62 miles eco, 31 town. Roughly 20 miles too short. I think I've only got it for half an hour too...

Stuart said:

Actually on this occasion we'd genuinely prefer it if you saved the cash and chucked it in the charity bucket for Mission Motorsport. We're trying to raise as much as we can on the gate for a great cause.

Of course, goes without saying.

Brownie's of Flapjacks?

Edited by Waugh-terfall on Tuesday 4th September 16:00

[fireturk]

vuaxhall ss = missed due to family comitments. signed up for AM Gaydon SS as soon as I saw it but was 350 on list and thought, bugger! won't be 50 drop out so made other plans, by the time I found out 50 had dropped out (Sat PM) was too late to change things. This SS have already got tickets for the whole event!! is it still worth me putting my name down for Me and a ferrari mad friend?!

[DanDC5]

fireturk said:

vuaxhall ss = missed due to family comitments. signed up for AM Gaydon SS as soon as I saw it but was 350 on list and thought, bugger! won't be 50 drop out so made other plans, by the time I found out 50 had dropped out (Sat PM) was too late to change things. This SS have already got tickets for the whole event!! is it still worth me putting my name down for Me and a ferrari mad friend?!

Yes. people will drop out.

[Mermaid]

fireturk said:

..This SS have already got tickets for the whole event!! is it still worth me putting my name down for Me and a ferrari mad friend?!

[Ian_C]

Yes, put your name down, people put their names down 'just in case' and always drop out last minute

[Stuart]

DEFINITELY put your name down. That list will drop as people decide they can't make it. If you are under 750 then I can guarantee that between now and next week you'll get in. Don't delay!

Holy crap, we've filled a 700 car Sunday Service in just over three hours.

[dadofbud]

So it says I'm not logged in when I try to put my name down and yet I can make this post !

[Charlie Michael]

Stuart said:

DEFINITELY put your name down. That list will drop as people decide they can't make it. If you are under 750 then I can guarantee that between now and next week you'll get in. Don't delay!

Holy crap, we've filled a 700 car Sunday Service in just over three hours.

How far are off Jalopnik are we for biggest car based site in the world?

[Stuart]

Charlie Michael said:

How far are off Jalopnik are we for biggest car based site in the world?

How far off PistonHeads are Jalopnik for being biggest car based site in the world you mean? We're significantly bigger than Jalponik.

[Waugh-terfall]

Charlie Michael said:

How far are off Jalopnik are we for biggest car based site in the world?

PistonHeads gets about 3 million unique users per month, Jalopnik get an estimated 4 million apparently.

[Charlie Michael]

Stuart said:

Charlie Michael said:

How far are off Jalopnik are we for biggest car based site in the world?

How far off PistonHeads are Jalopnik for being biggest car based site in the world you mean? We're significantly bigger than Jalponik.

Ahh, I was always under the impression that Jalponik were a "bigger" site than PH. Are we now the biggest of all car-based sites then?

By bigger I mean higher traffic and members etc.

[Stuart]

Waugh-terfall said:

PistonHeads gets about 3 million unique users per month, Jalopnik get an estimated 4 million.

According to their media kit, they get 1.6m per month. We're closer to 4.5m now. However a big proportion of our visitors are forum/classifieds traffic, whereas almost all theirs is to news traffic. So it isn't really an eggs with eggs comparison - they've a bigger editorial product, we've a bigger community product.

Either way, we like the Jalopnik chaps and what they do immensely.

[Charlie Michael]

Stuart said:

Either way, we like the Jalopnik chaps and what they do immensely.

Hear, Hear.

[anonymous-user]

Anyone without a computer at work or can't access PH from work is going to arrive home extremely annoyed!

[Waugh-terfall]

Stuart said:

Waugh-terfall said:

PistonHeads gets about 3 million unique users per month, Jalopnik get an estimated 4 million.

According to their media kit, they get 1.6m per month. We're closer to 4.5m now. However a big proportion of our visitors are forum/classifieds traffic, whereas almost all theirs is to news traffic. So it isn't really an eggs with eggs comparison - they've a bigger editorial product, we've a bigger community product.

Either way, we like the Jalopnik chaps and what they do immensely.

Haymarket website needs updating Jalopnik info seems to vary, ebizmba reckon 500,000 as of this month, though there's that 4 million I found, but then I've just been on Alexa.

[Stuart]

Waugh-terfall said:

Haymarket website needs updating Jalopnik info seems to vary, ebizmba reckon 500,000 as of this month, though there's that 4 million I found, but then I've just been on Alexa.

Haymarket's website does need updating. However I would also not trust a single thing you read on Alexa. Woefully unreliable as a source of useful data in my experience.

Google Trends is a little more reliable, but still prone to understatement since it doesn't see direct traffic, and therefore makes assumptions. That has us at about 4m unique visitors, and Jalopnik at roughly 2.5m (I think. The graph scale is very small).

Anyway, as I've said, a slightly pointless comparison because of the difference in how both sites generate traffic.

Can we get back to talking about our Sunday Service now please?