Many of you that have been around will remember the "Where We Are" thread in the Site News forum that I posted back in 2008:

Where we are...

I thought it was a good time to update you guys on some interesting statistics about RCSB to show how much we have grown since 2008. Our continued growth shows we ARE making a difference in R/C Scale and we have earned the well deserved reputation as being THE R/C Scale site on the internet all because of YOU folks.

As we grow, this year more than ever as we struggle to cover the sites costs in the face of declining advertising, and less site supporter subscriptions/renewals because of these tough economic times, we continue to try and provide you, the members with a great community that has LOTS of helpful information. In return a small percentage of you help us keep this site moving forward with your subscriptions, advertising, and content. For that I want to thank each of you that do this.

Here is some current numbers that you might interesting:

Member Snapshot
Total active members as of September 11th, 2012: 14946*
Number of Site Supporters/Lifetime Site Supporters: 1970
Number of Administrators / Moderators: 10
Number of Vendors: 23
Number of Free Members: 12943
Number of members with 0 posts: 10549
*Inactive accounts are removed after 3 months of inactivity

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Site Supporter Information
Average # of renewals per site supporter (excluding LSS's): 2.4
Average number of walk around downloads: 13
Average number of posts by site supporter: 46.2
Average number of visits per day: 5.7

Basic Account (Non-Site Supporter) Information
Average number of posts: 1.4
Average number of visits per day: 4.6

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Some Interesting Statistics
Average page views per month: 1.063,034
Average time of each visit. 4:41 minutes
Average number of unique member visits per day: 2504
Average number of new visitors per Month: 13.39
Percent visits by top five countries*
1. United States 70.63%
2. United Kingdom 9.10%
3. Australia: 8.81%
4. Canada: 6.39%
5. Germany: 2.03%

And you can see we have made some substantial gains in most areas and actually lost footing in some. There are a LOT of folks using the site on a daily basis but who are NOT site supporters. I would ask if you frequent the site using it's resources on a regular basis to consider becoming a RCSB site supporter and get all the benefits that come with it. When you become a Site Supporter everyone wins! You can read more about the benefits of becoming a site supporter here:
 
http://www.rcscalebuilder.com/page_display.asp?pid=5

Finally a huge THANK YOU to the Site Supporters, Lifetime Site Supporters, and Dedicated Vendors who keep this site afloat. Without you all we never could have gotten where we are.

Regards,
Mike