The ratio of guests to users

Right now it says 247 guests and 5 users. Again, it's more likely that the google results appear to make this site popular. After all, a page entitled "Auditions for actors" will entice any number of people from around the world; and most threads don't have a title that is more specific to location, date or whatever. Besides which I would say that ALIA (the others I never visit so I won't comment on them) is no where near as popular as this for three reasons: ALIA is only for techies, which severely thins out the target audience; ALIA is hardly the first place you go when you're a newbie, and therefore is used more by people who know about it already; and the majority of actively posting people on this site come from WA. I agree the difference is huge, but hardly surprising. Furthermore as far as I know, the only way you can tell who's reading ALIA is on the forums; there could be 20 times as many people who visit other pages on the site without you knowing about it. (Another thought: it depends on how the guests 'block' works... does it record people currently visiting the site? No, it probably records the number of people who have visited within, say, the last 10 minutes, and only changes the number when you reload the page... So the number isn't entirely representative anyway) Finger puppet pattern for under $4 at Puppets in Melbourne