It is no secret that the Joomla! forums get a lot of traffic. Any forum with over 100,000 members probably get a lot of traffic. Some of you may be surprised at just how much traffic the Joomla forums gets.

We use Google Analytics to keep track of statistics.

The following data gives you a big picture of what and who was on the forums from "Aug 17, 2008 - Sep 16, 2008":

The following image shows a graph of page views per day. The pattern is obvious. It appears that most people use the forum on the weekdays. There are dips on the weekends. The labels on the left and right show just over 100,000 page views per day.

In total, there were 3,326,204 page views from August 17th to September 16th. That averages out to 107,297 page views per day.

Let's now take a look at the fun stuff... where are all these people coming from?

Put simple: Everywhere!

Although most visitors are from the United States, you can see a strong presence in almost every country in in the world. That is simply amazing.

The fine folks at Google have given us a way to break it down and look at the exact numbers by country. Note: These are visits, not page views. So, one visit can produce multiple page views.

Did any of the information above come to a surprise to you? Personally, the thing that surprised me the most was that Thailand had a stronger presence than Australia.

Please feel free to leave your comments below on what surprised you the most.