1 year anniversary in Zen time for some stats from my main deal

[The Bar Keep]

I had my first year of experience with Zen Cart pass by yesterday 3/10/08 so i thought it would be a good time to add up a full year with the same product line. I started out with one host and am still there but switched to a different host with a new domain name 9/4/07. What started out as one site became 2 sites in November of 07' so here are the totals for a year of Zen Cart with one product line.

Sites I am running now with this product line are www.nybikergear.com  & www.nybwholesale.com

Hit Counter = 929,409
customers = 1004
individual orders = 743

http://www.quantcast.com/p-02XGN6NM88omY

Please take into consideration that the original site didn't go live until 3/28/07 so I still have time for improvement on live carts.

Special thank you to Deb because without her hard work none of the above numbers would have been attainable!!! 


Joe - The Bar Keep

[The Tavern Wench]

Congratulations on your One Year Anniversary. 

You did good in a year and obtained (actually way surpassed) one of your main goals of beating out The Rat's Driftwood site. 


So what are your new goals for 2008?

[The Bar Keep]

So what are your new goals for 2008?

You know I hadn't really thought about it as of yet but judging from quantcast my growth looks to double what I did in my first year. That combined with the constant adaptations we do with carts and marketing I think it can be accomplished. The other thing is to repeat the plan with more carts as you know we are working on that. Then there is TTP which I was looking at tonight as well (bigger plans for that coming soon). All in all 08' looks to be a great year for The Bar Keep, The Tavern Wench & The Crabby Host members.

[The Pet Guy]

Way to go Joe. I don't even know how to check my stats.

[bbhc]

my growth looks to double what I did in my first year.

Then get ready to start cursing Zen's limitations, crappy coding (defined here as an extreme number of database queries), and depending on how much you grow, get ready to move to a dedicated server or start searching for new shopping cart software (which we are doing for our largest site).  Zen (and the rest of the osC family) sucks once your traffic or inventory hits a certain level--we started noticing a severe degradation in performance (on a dedicated server) when one of our sites  hit the combination of 10,000 daily page views/9,000 items.  We added eAccelerator to the server which gave us a temporary reprieve (see this post http://community.tuliptoo...49.msg65692.html#msg65692) but now at 15,000 page views/11,000 items we're having the same problems.  Watch what happens to your site's performance when you get 25-30 people in your store at once or a dozen Fatbots (TheFind's spider) spending their waking hours in your store.

[The Bar Keep]

Watch what happens to your site's performance when you get 25-30 people in your store at once or a dozen Fatbots (TheFind's spider) spending their waking hours in your store.

The 25-30 people I am seeing now. The biggest problem I have had with site usage so far is scraping. Have see over 150 pages in a few seconds and still no load problems. I don't plan for more than 1,000 items listed in any cart, if that were the case I would be splitting the sites up. Attributes will slow a site down just as easy and with my product line the attributes are plentiful. All in all the problems you are describing are problems I would like to have and would reflect another reached goal rather than seeing it as the sky is falling. We should all be so lucky to have those problems.

[QUILT]

How wonderful for all of you  congratulations!