While CouchSurfing may not have the most member profiles of all hospitality sites, we certainly have the most active number of users. A more accurate measurement of a site's population can be tracked with traffic. CouchSurfing has the most activity on any given day than other hospitality network. What that means is, more people are logging on, creating full profiles, participating in groups and using the system. Here are some graphs from an independent tracker, Alexa.

You can access our real-time stats here. You can also compare our real-time Alexa online traffic ranking to other sites here. Here is a graphical representation of our recent traffic (in unique visitors) over time. Our rate of growth is roughly +300,000 visitors per month (meaning, each month our traffic increases by 300,000 more visitors than the previous month).

When we incorporated CouchSurfing International, Inc. as a non-profit, we filed our official mission statement as: CouchSurfing seeks to internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, spread tolerance, and facilitate cultural understanding." a community we strive to do our individual and collective parts to make the world a better place, and we believe that the surfing of couches is a means to accomplish this goal.

This icon indicates that a member is a CS Ambassador. This is one of our most commonly asked questions. CouchSurfing has implemented several precautionary measures for the benefit of its surfers, hosts, and community. Every user is linked to the other users he or she knows in the system through a network of references and friend links. In addition to the solid network with friend link-strength indicators and testimonials, we have our vouching and verification systems.

Absolutely. CouchSurfing International is a non-profit organization dedicated to the global community. CouchSurfing was created specifically so that everyone can travel the world and partake in cultural exchange. Staying with your host(s) is also always free; it is contrary to the values of CouchSurfing and against our terms of use to charge someone to surf your couch. Many surfers like to bring their hosts gifts or treat them to a meal as a "Thank you," but this is not a requirement.

Use the following link: RealPinions Traffic Statistics to see our traffic statistics. These are typically as of 11:59pm of the previous day.

I tried to register, submitted the info and received an error message. I tried again, and was told I was already registered. Help!

We expect that this will get at least as much traffic as our retail and forum portion of our site and we get hundred of thousand of individual vistors per month. I tried to register, submitted the info and received an error message. I tried again, and was told I was already registered. Help! First try getting your password from our automatic Password Request program. If you are registered (with the correct email address) it will find you and email you your login information.

Over the past 12 months our site has attracted over 1? million 'hits' from 90+ countries around the world. We always post the latest monthly statistics, including the number of 'unique visitors', the countries of origin for the visitors, and this information can be accessed by clicking on Contents > Statistics. The performance report on our web site is verified and a report provided by an independent auditor.

Most domains never exceed 200 megs of traffic per month, but let's put it in real terms. On a 300mb web hosting account we allow you 200 megs per DAY of traffic. 200 megs = 204,800 kilobytes. For a web page that takes up say 48 kilobytes of space on our server, the page would have to be accessed 4,266 times per day, or 128,000 times per month to reach the limit.

Yes. You can copy stats code from free services like Google Analytics or StatCounter to get in-depth statistics on your domains.

Well, the idea solidified when founder, Casey Fenton, got a cheap ticket to Iceland for a long weekend one April. With his ticket in hand, there was one problem: he had no place to stay and no desire to rot in a hotel all weekend and play Mr. Tourist. So, he came up with the 'brilliant' idea of spamming over 1500 Icelandic students in Reykjavik and asking them if he could crash on one of their couches.

The interest rate is prime plus zero to 4%. The rate will depend on the borrowers credit rating and the lender. The average is usually prime plus 2%. The term of the loan depends on the loan amount and will range from 3 to 7 years.

Currently we receive up to ten thousand visitors daily. Most of our traffic comes directly from search engines from when people type in phrases such as "restaurants for sale."

This site gets around 30,000 visitors a day, generating about 3,500,000 page views a month. It often gets press coverage when a major new film comes out, and this can boost traffic dramatically - traffic's been as high as 150,000 visitors a day

Traffic Supercharger was developed to drive qualified traffic to your website. Traffic Supercharger is a tool that does not replace your main website but enhances and compliments it. Traffic Supercharger allows you to create hundreds or thousands of web pages that are entirely focused and complimentary to your main website theme. Each Traffic Supercharger page has numerous pointers back to your main website.

Visits to the website means that when someone types or clicks on http://www.camba.us, one hit is recorded. This records one visit for each different person that comes to our site. This means that on average, we attract 55 different people to our site per day!

The 511 Traffic Site contains real-time traffic information and other tools to help you plan your trips and commute in the San Diego region. Its main features are: interactive Traffic and Driving Times Map, which can give you driving times, traffic incidents, congestion levels, construction, and special events affecting traffic (Try clicking on the color-coded roadways to obtain speed information).

Depends on the time of the year and for what category. Our two peak visitation seasons overall are in the fall and mid-winter where the site gets 10,000 to 20,000 visits a month. Even though we have postings in just about every state, we still get 70% of our visitation and participation from our home state of Colorado.

In a manner of speaking, yes. The CADMAC Protocols - Appendix A - (Click to Download) titled Measurement Terms and Definitions gives a fairly complete summary of evaluation terminology.

We get our information from three types of sources: digital traffic sensors, commercial and government partners, and our traffic operations center staff members. Our own network of sensors is already deployed in many major metropolitan areas, and is rapidly expanding to additional cities. Where local or state government agencies have available data from their sensors or systems, we integrate as much of that data as possible as well.

We are very proud of the traffic we offer. We do not have "secret sources" or "secret methods" for generating traffic. Our traffic is derived from hard work. Period. You deserve to know the source of the traffic so that you can make an informed business decision when purchasing it. Our traffic comes from expired domain names. When someone creates a website, they generally register a domain name to go along with it.

NO. We expressly forbid such redirection. If it comes to our attention that one of our purchasers is using the web link to redirect traffic in this way, we will immediately remove their link. The pixels will then be offered for sale to a new buyer. The original purchaser will NOT receive a refund or any other compensation.

We recommend a combination of print advertising such as classifieds and postcards, online advertising such as pay-per-click search engine placement, and word of mouth. We will submit your web site to search engines and web directories including Google and we will send all Gold Plan customers a copy of our Four Point Internet Marketing Program. Other providers may leave you on your own or charge extra for this service.