The use of the T.VU mirror site appears to have dramatically improved the performance of the chat feature and the new rules: 16+, clothes or report appears to have reduce some of the unwanted images seen initially.
After my post back on the 15th February about the russian site Chat Roulette, this blog posts continues to provide a massive amount of my keyword search traffic, and has surpassed all my previous records for posts and continues to attract visitors. While it seems much of the mainstream media appears to have slowed its coverage around the Russian chat site, it still appears to have captured enough interest based on the keywords used to find out more information about it. Ive been contacted by other blogs wanting to know if I have any extra information or insight into how the site works or does work from a web marketing perspective so its likely that there is still new media articles being published which should re-ignite interest in the site.
Based on the Alexa.com chart shown below it appears as if Chatroulette might have reached its audience peak around the middle of March as has slowed down and started decreasing in daily reach but still manages to rank in the top 1000 websites in the USA.
Compared to last time it seems that the visitors by country to Chatroulette has been skewed and below are the visitors during February.
- USA (26.1%)
- China (17.9%)
- UK (5.6%)
- Turkey (5.3%)
- Italy (5.2%)
- France (5%)
- Spain (4.5%)
- Germany (4.2%)
- Brazil (4%)
- Holland (3%)
Compared to the visitors to Chatroulette during April, we see a large drop in UK & Chinese visitors and a increase in european visitors, and Russia makes an appearance as #6.
- USA (22.9%)
- France (9.8%)
- Germany (8.6%)
- China (5.4%)
- UK (4.9%)
- Russia (4.0%)
- Turkey (3.7%)
- Italy (3.3%)
- Holland (2.9%)
- Canada (2.9%)
The graphs below show that the demographics have also changed with a larger portion of females visiting Chatroulette since February, there has also been a larger skew towards younger users with graduate school level education. Showing the difference in demographics a massive percentage of visits now appear to be made from School locations which should alarm some parents and teachers based on what is shown on some of the webcams.
The site now has a mirror site operating to reduce the load on the main server and this might be part of the reason for a slight drop in visitors to the site, if they are using the Chat Roulette mirror T.VU as it shows 3000% growth in the last month. The use of a mirror site appears to have dramatically improved the performance of the chat feature and the new rules: 16+, clothes or report appears to have reduce some of the unwanted images seen initially.
One of the interesting side developments is Chat Roulette Map which allows you to view the users approximate location, or exact location for Maine.edu students and see if they are online and makes Chatroulette much more interesting as you can see users by geographically locations.
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