AltcoinsTalks forum simple monthly report: June 2024

[MrSpasybo]

I decided to create a simple monthly report at the end of each month so we can track, compare and evaluate the quality of the forum.

I hope to have everyone's contributions so we can have better reporting in the future. Thank you very much!

This is the June 2024 report.

All can check last reports:
January 2024: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=316731.0
February 2024: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=318667.0
March 2024: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=319996.0
April 2024: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321049.0
May 2024: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321767.0

I. Data from our forum

1. Number of members: 89,435 (+171 ~ +0.19%)

2. Number of Topics = 289,670 (+601 ~ +0.21%)

3. Number of Posts = 1,514,561 (+15,540 ~ +1.04%)

II. Data from SimilarWeb

1. Rank
Global Rank: #480,386 (up 14,790)
Country Rank: #38,840 (up 103) in Russia

2. Total Visits: 146.2K/month (+8.4K ~ +6.1%)

3. Pages per Visit: 2.17 (-0.1 ~ -4.41%)

4. Avg Visit Duration: 00:02:05

5. Traffic by Country
Russia: 44.66%
Finland: 17.1%
Serbia: 13.32%
United State: 4.99%
France: 3.2%

6. Traffic sources:
Direct: 78.55% (-9.1%)
Referral: 1.39% (+1.1%)
Search: 16.85% (+8.84%)
Social: 0% (-2.42%)
Mail: 3.22% (+1.6%)
Paid: 0%

7. Top Competitor: BitcoinGarden

III. Summary

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Jan 2024

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88,523

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285,277

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1,422,360

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540,599

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45.4K

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Feb 2024

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88,762 +239 +0.27%

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286,672 +1,395 +0.49%

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1,444,200 +28,840 +1.54%

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#471,101 up 69,498

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95.9K +50.5K +111.4%

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Mar 2024

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88,970 +208 +0.23%

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287,655 +983 +0.34%

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1,465,986 +21,786 +1.51%

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#739,490 down 268,389

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70.2K -25.7K -26.8%

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Apr 2024

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89,147 +177 +0.2%

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288,471 +816 +0.28%

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1,486,053 +20,067 +1.37%

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#911,789 down 172,299

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57.7K -12.5K -18.12%

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May 2024

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89,264 +117 +0.13%

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289,069 +598 +0.21%

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1,499,021 +12,968 +0.87%

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#495,176 up 416,613

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137.8K +80.3K +139.65%

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June 2024

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89,435 +171 +0.19%

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289,670 +601 +0.21%

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1,514,561 +15,540 +1.04%

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#480,386 up 14,790

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146.2K +8.4K +6.1%

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[Lucius]

Interesting data, and as far as I can see we are progressing in everything, except that our rank experiences very dramatic changes from time to time. From the beginning of the year until today, with all the changes, the rank is approximately the same - so since I'm not an expert, I have to ask what that rank primarily depends on and how to improve it?

Also, regarding the traffic of countries, I see that Russia is in first place, and considering that the BTT forum is banned in that country, does that mean that Altcoinstalks is not? However, considering that many members use VPN/Tor, I don't think that traffic by country is something that should be considered completely accurate.

[Jokers]

Also, regarding the traffic of countries, I see that Russia is in first place, and considering that the BTT forum is banned in that country, does that mean that Altcoinstalks is not?

Altcoinstalks is not banned in Russia yet, but there is a huge number of banned web sited of hundreds of thousands positions, so it can happen any time. But as for now, Russians are free to visit Altcoinstalks directly.

[Faisal2202]

Interesting data, and as far as I can see we are progressing in everything, except that our rank experiences very dramatic changes from time to time. From the beginning of the year until today, with all the changes, the rank is approximately the same - so since I'm not an expert, I have to ask what that rank primarily depends on and how to improve it?

First factor is visits, and you can see in the comparison table as well that rank is directly related to the visits this forum is getting. Rank increases with more traffic and decreases with less traffic. Besides visits, the speed, backlinks, and SEO factors like the quality of content and quantity of content both impact the rank. Rank is a term to differentiate if we are doing good or not in comparison to other sites of the same domain or the same content.

So, there are sites of the same niche (crypto). In SEO, experts keep an eye on their competitors and try to understand their content tree, and try to overtake them by outsmarting them so if we want to focus on rank then first find our competitors then try to compete with them in various factors that are the second step, first is finding them. Age of the domain also matters in terms of rank.

[hugeblack]

I expected a significant increase due to the joining of two signature campaigns, especially in the number of topics and number of posts, but in general the forum is growing and interest in the forum is increasing.
The best indicator is Search: 16.85% (+8.84%), which indicates that archiving the forum in search engines has become much better than before.

[Lucius]

Also, regarding the traffic of countries, I see that Russia is in first place, and considering that the BTT forum is banned in that country, does that mean that Altcoinstalks is not?

Altcoinstalks is not banned in Russia yet, but there is a huge number of banned web sited of hundreds of thousands positions, so it can happen any time. But as for now, Russians are free to visit Altcoinstalks directly.

These are strange decisions without going into any off topic about it, but if you ban BTT as a forum, then I guess it would be logical to ban any forum that has anything to do with cryptocurrencies. However, maybe BTT was banned because there is an active discussion about politics and war there, and as far as I've noticed, there are no such discussions here at all.

~snip~
So, there are sites of the same niche (crypto). In SEO, experts keep an eye on their competitors and try to understand their content tree, and try to overtake them by outsmarting them so if we want to focus on rank then first find our competitors then try to compete with them in various factors that are the second step, first is finding them. Age of the domain also matters in terms of rank.

I know that SEO is important, but I don't know if someone from the administration deals with it? Maybe the forum could hire a professional to try to make some changes for the better - of course it's not cheap, but it would probably be worth it in the long run.

[MrSpasybo]

I expected a significant increase due to the joining of two signature campaigns, especially in the number of topics and number of posts, but in general the forum is growing and interest in the forum is increasing.
The best indicator is Search: 16.85% (+8.84%), which indicates that archiving the forum in search engines has become much better than before.

Yeah, this is a significant change we can see: after the surge in traffic in May, we see this metric stabilize, confirming that AltcoinsTalks traffic has actually increased. At the same time, Search has increased, indicating that forum content has appeared more in searches. This is an important step for AltcoinsTalks to reach potential investors and, of course, potential users in future.

It's interesting that we can compare simple monthly statistics to see what we've been through over the past six months. The crypto market has recovered and the AltcoinsTalks forum is back on a growth path, I hope this will continue to be stronger in the coming months as we enter the bullrun!

[Faisal2202]

Good work MrSpasybo +1 for you but you deserve more. I liked the stats as they are growing, last time I shared that with time the number of posters will increase, and as of now some campaigns are increasing their slots, or some campaigns that were closed have been opened now and this will increase the visits and bounce rate as well.

BTW I just noticed you did not mention the Bounce rate anywhere I think it would be a great thing to add because it will tell us if the people visiting this site are engaging the site or just visiting the site and then leaving it instantly. For example currently, according to SimilarWeb the BR for this forum is %60 so to understand the relation, a higher bounce rate will indicate lesser engagement, which means people are not engaging with the site and not spending time on different pages (the point is this forum has lots of pages so average will be calculated, and most people spend time on some pages only which reflects as they are not engaging but still it's not a big deal). Lower BR means people are spending more time on this forum.

So, a higher bounce rate totally gives the vibe that it's not good and we need more engagements for the forum, but it also means that people came, they found what they were looking for, and left, but I don't think this forum is one of those sites. It's a forum where people talk.

So what do you think about adding another column for Bounce rate from now on?

[Jokers]

These are strange decisions without going into any off topic about it, but if you ban BTT as a forum, then I guess it would be logical to ban any forum that has anything to do with cryptocurrencies. However, maybe BTT was banned because there is an active discussion about politics and war there, and as far as I've noticed, there are no such discussions here at all.

Formally BTT was banned for the request from AFAIR Tax department and Alcohol department and something like that. If there was a political motivation behind that... who knows. But the reasons were very formal. So if they will find Altcoinstalks and decide to ban it, they'll find some same formal reasons. Crypto discussions are not forbidden in Russia by themselves yet, so some other reason will be formally announced if there will be no newer restriction on crypto.

[MrSpasybo]

Good work MrSpasybo +1 for you but you deserve more. I liked the stats as they are growing, last time I shared that with time the number of posters will increase, and as of now some campaigns are increasing their slots, or some campaigns that were closed have been opened now and this will increase the visits and bounce rate as well.

BTW I just noticed you did not mention the Bounce rate anywhere I think it would be a great thing to add because it will tell us if the people visiting this site are engaging the site or just visiting the site and then leaving it instantly. For example currently, according to SimilarWeb the BR for this forum is %60 so to understand the relation, a higher bounce rate will indicate lesser engagement, which means people are not engaging with the site and not spending time on different pages (the point is this forum has lots of pages so average will be calculated, and most people spend time on some pages only which reflects as they are not engaging but still it's not a big deal). Lower BR means people are spending more time on this forum.

So, a higher bounce rate totally gives the vibe that it's not good and we need more engagements for the forum, but it also means that people came, they found what they were looking for, and left, but I don't think this forum is one of those sites. It's a forum where people talk.

So what do you think about adding another column for Bounce rate from now on?

Thank you for your suggestion, I think I will add Bounce rate to the statistics table for more reference data. I have never noticed how important this data is, so I missed it. Honestly, we have a lot of interesting data such as the number of pages or the average time of a visit, but it is difficult to create a full and clear profile for AltcoinsTalks.

The positive thing we can see is that traffic is increasing, which is perhaps the most important and obvious data. I hope that this number will continue to be maintained in the coming months, until the crypto market enters a bullrun and brings hundreds of thousands of new visitors to the forum!

[notblox1]

It is very good to see that numbers are increasing in this forum, we have more members, more visits, and traffic is increasing.
I am not sure how precise this reports are, there are some big changes in website global ranking.

[Faisal2202]

I know that SEO is important, but I don't know if someone from the administration deals with it? Maybe the forum could hire a professional to try to make some changes for the better - of course it's not cheap, but it would probably be worth it in the long run.

I don't think the admin is going to hire any professional maybe they will run some kind of campaign where they will ask members to contribute in the form of writing SEO optimized articles for the forum or providing other services. Just like PX-Z and bitmover made a notification bot and other stuff, other members are contributing in their own way.

Thank you for your suggestion, I think I will add Bounce rate to the statistics table for more reference data. I have never noticed how important this data is, so I missed it. Honestly, we have a lot of interesting data such as the number of pages or the average time of a visit, but it is difficult to create a full and clear profile for AltcoinsTalks.

The positive thing we can see is that traffic is increasing, which is perhaps the most important and obvious data. I hope that this number will continue to be maintained in the coming months, until the crypto market enters a bullrun and brings hundreds of thousands of new visitors to the forum!

Glad to be of some help, always in the essence of contributing to the forum for free (haha, saying free because someone might say then donate some funds to the forum haha). BR is good data to be considered and yeah it is really difficult for a member to create a clear profile of the forum only the admin can do it along with its staff.

Traffic will increase more if more and more signature campaigns will come. I have seen that some members are not that active but when they get enrolled in some campaign they start to remain active as well (no offense to anyone). More and more members will also join from BTT. Traffic will be increasing and that's for sure. The bull run also plays an important role, I never idealized this before but you seem to have a good idea about it, so do you think in a bear market we will have fewer visitors?

[bitmover]

I know that SEO is important, but I don't know if someone from the administration deals with it? Maybe the forum could hire a professional to try to make some changes for the better - of course it's not cheap, but it would probably be worth it in the long run.

I don't think the admin is going to hire any professional maybe they will run some kind of campaign where they will ask members to contribute in the form of writing SEO optimized articles for the forum or providing other services. Just like PX-Z and bitmover made a notification bot and other stuff, other members are contributing in their own way.

Writing article is  not enough.  Someone has to fix stuff in the code.

For example  , this website is basically invisible to Google because it doesn't uses basic data scheme

Look at how Google see this page

https://validator.schema.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.altcoinstalks.com%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D322524.new%23new


 bitcointalk is also missing those data schemes,  but they have a very high SEO authority because of the content and backllinks

[Lucius]

@bitmover, how easy (or difficult) is it to fix that defect and do you think it would significantly affect the visibility of the forum? The forum will have a hard time progressing if some basic things are not arranged as they should be.

[MrSpasybo]

Glad to be of some help, always in the essence of contributing to the forum for free (haha, saying free because someone might say then donate some funds to the forum haha). BR is good data to be considered and yeah it is really difficult for a member to create a clear profile of the forum only the admin can do it along with its staff.

Traffic will increase more if more and more signature campaigns will come. I have seen that some members are not that active but when they get enrolled in some campaign they start to remain active as well (no offense to anyone). More and more members will also join from BTT. Traffic will be increasing and that's for sure. The bull run also plays an important role, I never idealized this before but you seem to have a good idea about it, so do you think in a bear market we will have fewer visitors?

Signature campaigns have created healthy competition on AltcoinsTalks and boosted the positivity of many members. I think this is good for the forum and Mixers projects, this win-win relationship helps us all develop together, and users with needs can also access the most suitable crypto mixing services.

We are in a bullrun, and AltcoinsTalks indirectly receives a positive impact when there are more members, more topics, more traffic and searches. The opposite happens when the market goes into bearsleep and is dominated by boredom, despair and anger. I witnessed this in 2018 and 2022, I hope that the same will not happen in 2026 when the crypto market and our forum have truly matured.