The popularity of P2P platforms on this forum over time
Aug 31, 2016 15:16:05 GMT
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Post by Neil_P2PBlog on Aug 31, 2016 15:16:05 GMT
Ever wondered how viewing numbers of platforms on this forum has changed over time? It's an interesting proxy to see which P2X lending platforms are offering more opportunities to investors by plotting the viewing counts of their P2P Independent Forum boards over time, and also to see which have been 'promoted'/'relegated' to the front page.
I've scraped data from the waybackmachine, which captures historic snapshots of websites in time, to plot the 'X people now viewing' numbers against each platform on the front page of this forum. Using this data I've ranked the platforms from 1 (most popular, probably Saving Stream as you read this) to N (being the total count of platforms on the front page).
You can view my interactive report on the data here.
The data goes back to the end of 2013. Where possible I've chosen a popular time of day when many people were online to get the best figures. The only exception to this was 18th December 2014, when only 3 boards were being read when the data was scraped. My last data point was August 19th, before the recent forum reshuffle. Will be interesting to see how this changes in future with the emergence of new platforms like Collateral.
I've scraped data from the waybackmachine, which captures historic snapshots of websites in time, to plot the 'X people now viewing' numbers against each platform on the front page of this forum. Using this data I've ranked the platforms from 1 (most popular, probably Saving Stream as you read this) to N (being the total count of platforms on the front page).
You can view my interactive report on the data here.
The data goes back to the end of 2013. Where possible I've chosen a popular time of day when many people were online to get the best figures. The only exception to this was 18th December 2014, when only 3 boards were being read when the data was scraped. My last data point was August 19th, before the recent forum reshuffle. Will be interesting to see how this changes in future with the emergence of new platforms like Collateral.
