Huge number of visitors as of late …

For Thurs/Fri we averaged 200 members during a 24 hour period.

 

May be the RSS feature hitting critical mass.

http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1943

That would account for a lot of Yahoo and Google spiders.

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Just read the Reader's Digest article (excellent btw) and this site is one of the two mentioned. Maybe people are reading it and coming here for more information. Hope so.

 

Do you have a link to the Readers Digest Article?

 

I logon in the middle of the night, when I get home from work, when on afternoon shift

 

Most of it was a reprint from the Mother Jones Article here:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/king_of_the_hypermilers.html

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Great article, thanks for posting the link Dan

 

See if you can grab some referers and user-agents from the logs
and boil down some stats; that will help eliminate a lot of the
spiders and see how many *humans* are visiting. There are
apparently a bunch of new bots that recently started up, so
they're noising up the counts.
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_H*

 

Total members that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 217

 

awesome numbers, its one of those feel good things to know that they at least visited, some might not sign up right away, it usually takes just another trip to the pump to trigger a memory of our high mpg #'s and they'll come running back..heh. I'm guilty

 

I found this site from the Reader's Digest article as well. It was perfect timing for me . . . I had surfed the web using terms like "fuel economy" or "gas savings" and found some good articles with tips (like air up the tires, proper maintenance etc.) but, didn't see this site in those searches.

I know it's nothing compared to most of you - but, I am pleased that my mpg has increased from 22.3 to 23.5 since joining. I really want to get over 24 (city) so, I will be in the next group buy for the ScanGuage. I have some questions about turning off the engine and coasting . . . I will post those later on the 'help' thread.

Ellen

 

The Readers Digest article is certainly making the rounds. It's good to know that it has brought people like you here to ask questions and get answers.

As far as your mpg... every decrease in fuel consumption counts. Keep up the good work!

 

Thanks for the encouragement. I just figured out that I am getting 19.8 more miles to a tankful of gas than before. That's a little bit more than a 5% increase. At 3.18/gal. - I am saving approx. $3.79 per tank . . . around $4/month . . . almost $50 a year.

I plan to put my savings toward those little pink, polka-dot high heels I saw at the mall yesterday!

Ellen

 

Well, now I'm obligated to crunch numbers.


Before I started hypermiling, I averaged ~34 MPG (varied from 29 to 39).

Since then I've driven 4,045 miles per the mileage logs.

Without hypermiling it would have taken 118.97 gallons. At an average of $3.20 a gallon that's $380.71.

With hypermiling it took 90.805, or about $290.57 in gas. I've saved what, 90 dollars in three months? I don't even count the first month as true hypermiling because I did so poorly.

I'm going to say I'm saving an average of $50 a month in gas over "driving like a normal human". That's assuming prices don't rise and my MPG never increases. I think I'll keep hypermiling.

 

Just thought I'd bring up what I'm seeing here...


Total members that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 231

 

Today it got up to 267 members.

 

yeahpp, readers digest for me.... I don't even read it regularly. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of members is about to suddenly skyrocket. Word is getting out, gas is still going up, people are still getting crappy mileage. If anyone hears they can save gas now-a-days with little more than some driving habbit changes more than likely they'll at least try it.

 

Total members that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 277
14:56 EST

 

Actually, it was 280 about 90 minutes ago.