1911 census

[kerryb]

I guess it is to limit the amount of users at the moment while they are worried about overload, maybe eventually it will be enabled.

Kerry

[Necromancer]

you dont have to be logged in - so one browser could be doing the searching etc, and t'other whatver needs an Id ?

[Gadget]

I discovered it by accident, Newf. I wanted to check 'My records' which needed me to be logged in 

[Sloe Gin]

The "sign out" doesn't seem to work for me.  A friend was here yesterday and wanted to do a search and download, so we logged in his details on my PC.  Afterwards I signed out and closed down.  But when I went in today, it greeted me with his name!

[peterbmillzz]

Hot off the BBC News web site..................
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7828215.stm

The release of the 1911 census has been immensely popular so far, says Elaine Collins, commercial director of findmypast.com. By midnight on Tuesday, there had been 3.4m searches and 17.4m page views.

How much per page view.............??
Peter

[Necromancer]

thats 'server statistics' - not a count of paid for census pages !

[peterbmillzz]

lot of hits even so. If only 50% are paid views still a lot of ££££

[Necromancer]

dunno - 'pages' will be refering to every site 'page' that the server delivers .... like this page we are on now.... so not sure you can put a % to it - still well busy tho .... there used to be some site stats on here that were eye watering too ...

[Darren S]

lot of hits even so. If only 50% are paid views still a lot of ££££

I don't imagine it's anything like that. So far I've done dozens of searches and not paid a penny (but found out lots of info, thanks to the "others in household" fields.  ) I'm sure there are plenty of casual surfers as well, just typing in names to see if they can find their grandparents, etc. who aren't doing serious research.

I'd be surprised if any more than 0.1% of page views are people using credits. 

Incidentally, surely these prices aren't going to remain so high? Maybe they will drop the number of credits required in a few months time when the initial rush dies down? I hope so, anyway...