Just converted a week ago

[AzzidReign]

Well, timing was terrible. IPB support was very slow and it took my site 2-3 days to get converted. On top of that, they didn't even do the things I needed them to do like redirect all old URL's (vbseo urls) to the new ones. It took me 8 hours to get everything redirecting properly since I'm not a htaccess pro and there were 2 different "old vb" databases and I happened to be trying to use the one that wouldn't allow redirects (yeah that sentence probably doesn't make much sense...it could if I showed pictures I guess...but I'm lazy now).

 

So after hours and hours of trying to get everything to work, I succeeded...and then had to take a 2 hour nap before jumping on a few flights to head to the British Virgin Islands. Bad timing.... We still had quite a bit of errors and many settings to go through and change. Luckily my admins got a lot of them fixed.

 

Bad thing is though...people don't seem to like IPB much from the looks of my analytics data. It might just be the skin though...but this is my stats so far (remember, my site was also offline for more than 2 days):

 

Uniques: Down from 50,000/day to 30,000/day

 

Pages/visit: Down from 16 to 3

 

Pageviews a day: Down from 1mill to 200k

 

Bounce rate: Up from 30% to over 50%

 

So far those stats are scaring the f*ck out of me. :( I just hope things start turning around soon. I hope that once we get our skin ported over (which I need to find a coder to do...no one is willing to do the job and I can't post here for someone to do it yet :/ ) things will even out and return back to normal or better than normal.

[AWS]

The 2 days of downtime probably caused the dip. Google is fast. I had the board closed message up on one site I converted which took over 6 hours to complete and Google showed the closed message with a couple hours. Things will rebound and more than likely do it fast.

 

My users never noticed a change or if they did it didn't matter to them. Of course we had a test site running for a couple weeks so staff could get used to things and so that we could make the style as close to what we had as possible. It just might be the style causing the problems.