WinCustomize continued to grow. The launch of Windows XP has brought a ton of new users. Welcome to our community!

Referrals are still the lifeblood of our site. In fact, referrals have grown from being where 35% of our traffic came from (July) to around 45% (this month overall) to nearly 50% (this week). That's a lot of people learning about our site. Thank you to all those that link to us.

Here are the top 5 community sites that link to us:
#1 Stardock (about 60% of our referrals come from Stardock)
#2 Customize.org
#3 DailyRotation
#4 Teknidermy
#5 Shellfront.org

Monthly uniques increased from 540,000 uniques last month to 639,000 uniques for this month. That's a lot of people!

Total page views was several million (not terribly interesting but most sites always brag about their page views).

Here's an interesting statistic. How many regulars do we have? People who visit at least 1 time per day?

In September, tha tnumber was about 28,000. This month it increased to 32,000. So we effectively gained 4,000 daily regulars. These are the people who make WinCustomize what it is. THey are the "community".

We also get into occasional discussions about what is "The community". That is, the people who basically live on these sites (like me). The population of core users is about 8,000. These are people who are on the site at least 3 times per day (like me).

So how will things go into November? Well, we're in the process of moving to a new colocation provider so things will be a little bumpy over the next few days. Hopefully things will be even faster after that.

Enjoy your stay!