Magic Café Crap (a.k.a. "Crap by Numbers")
Visit the Magic Café and check out the alleged hit counter (it's on the bottom of the page). Are we really supposed to believe that the Magic Café has gotten that much traffic (145,970,472 hits) in only four years?
Let's do the math: the Magic Café has 18,682 members listed (30 members per page * 622 pages, plus the 22 on the 623rd page), although even that number can be contested. The total traffic divided by the number of members is slightly more than 7,813 (7813.42854084... to be exact).
So, in order to accept that the Magic Café's traffic statistics are correct, you have to accept that the average Magic Café member has visited the site nearly 8,000 times! To take it a step further, the Magic Café was started in 2001, which means that the site has been up for 1,461 days (365 + 365 + 365 + 366, keeping in mind that one out of every four years is a leap year), the hit counter on the Magic Café shows that the average Magic Cafe member checks the Magic Cafe 5 (actually, 5.348...) times a day! Who the hell does Steve Brooks think he's fooling?
The craziest part about this is that if you believe that the membership numbers are inflated (as they probably are, because they include inactive members and count members with multiple accounts multiple times) and use a lower, more accurate estimate for the number of Magic Café members in these calculations, these two numbers - number of times the average Magic Café member has visited the site and the number of times the average member visits the site per day - become even higher and more ridiculous!
Steve Brooks, you're not fooling Pagliacci and you're not fooling any of his readers.
Let's do the math: the Magic Café has 18,682 members listed (30 members per page * 622 pages, plus the 22 on the 623rd page), although even that number can be contested. The total traffic divided by the number of members is slightly more than 7,813 (7813.42854084... to be exact).
So, in order to accept that the Magic Café's traffic statistics are correct, you have to accept that the average Magic Café member has visited the site nearly 8,000 times! To take it a step further, the Magic Café was started in 2001, which means that the site has been up for 1,461 days (365 + 365 + 365 + 366, keeping in mind that one out of every four years is a leap year), the hit counter on the Magic Café shows that the average Magic Cafe member checks the Magic Cafe 5 (actually, 5.348...) times a day! Who the hell does Steve Brooks think he's fooling?
The craziest part about this is that if you believe that the membership numbers are inflated (as they probably are, because they include inactive members and count members with multiple accounts multiple times) and use a lower, more accurate estimate for the number of Magic Café members in these calculations, these two numbers - number of times the average Magic Café member has visited the site and the number of times the average member visits the site per day - become even higher and more ridiculous!
Steve Brooks, you're not fooling Pagliacci and you're not fooling any of his readers.
posted by Pagliacci @ 2:33 AM
2 Comments:
At 4:56 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Go to the Magic Cafe and you'll find that there are usually about 60 to 70 users on site at that time.
Now go the the bottom of the page to the hit counter and press refresh every couple of seconds.
It goes up about 10 hits a second but the users remain fairly constant.
Tres suspicious mon ami.
Thats French for lying a**h*les (In Cafe speak)
At 4:59 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Just realised that these 60 or 70 users might be Magic Nerds that Big Steve has in a cage somewhere just hitting refresh every few seconds just like I was doing.
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