On a related note, is there any way to see how much of the costs go on classifieds vs the rest of the forum?
I haven't got any metrics or analytics set up to measure this thing over other things.
Yes people post the most in classifieds, but even the high level metrics I have still suggest that mostly guests look for "help! what's the best..." and active users live their life on the following page checking out which conversations they're involved in have been updated. I don't see any abnormal or high amount of traffic viewing classifieds, I think it only appears that way if you're on here because that section requires interaction to be of any value. You can read the other sections and those are valuable... but classifieds is only valuable if you are putting up adverts or replying to them, you actually have to interact there, but it doesn't mean more people are in there... it's just that elsewhere you don't have to interact.
I haven't got any metrics or analytics set up to measure this thing over other things.
Yes people post the most in classifieds, but even the high level metrics I have still suggest that mostly guests look for "help! what's the best..." and active users live their life on the following page checking out which conversations they're involved in have been updated. I don't see any abnormal or high amount of traffic viewing classifieds, I think it only appears that way if you're on here because that section requires interaction to be of any value. You can read the other sections and those are valuable... but classifieds is only valuable if you are putting up adverts or replying to them, you actually have to interact there, but it doesn't mean more people are in there... it's just that elsewhere you don't have to interact.