No, our business plan is just for us to be the best stock message board out there. We're not interested in being a portal. Granted, some companies do well being portals, and some other companies do well making cars. We don't wish to compete with them. We just want to do the one thing and do it well.
Actually, though we don't have Media Metrix tracking us (costs money and I'd rather spend it on computers than on other companies telling me we're doing well), I know just from looking at Alexa data that we're among the stickier sites around and possibly the stickiest of all stock message boards. When you pull up Traffic Details, the pages per user is a good measure of stickiness, though it doesn't take into account that lots of people repeatedly view the same URL (like Favorites or a particular Board page). Even with that known shortcoming in the measurement, we rank very high in pages viewed per users. Quite possibly among the top 1000 sites on the net. We already frequently come in as one of the top 2000 sites on the net in terms of total page views (minus the repeats on Favorites and Board, even).
For example, yesterday we ranked 1,775 in terms of total pageviews. And averaged 43 pages per user. That's very busy and *very sticky*.
For comparison's sake, all of Lycos did 4 pages per user. They get more users (by a long shot) but we're a lot stickier.
To compare apples to apples, SI ranked 2,195 yesterday for total pageviews. Yes. We get more pageviews than they do and have for a couple of weeks. And at only 11.3 page views per user, we're about 4 times as sticky.
I do wish Alexa would give a ranking on pages per user. I checked a number of sites like Lycos, Yahoo, and Microsoft, and none of them were even in the same league as us in terms of pages per user. If Alexa ranked that number, I honestly think we'd have a 3-digit ranking and possibly a 2-digit ranking.
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