Dear All,

Just wanted to share few things here.

Congratulations to everyone for being a part of the largest Nepali Community in the web. Before July 2004, there used to be about 3000 unique visitors to the site everyday. After the ANA, there were approx 6000. Since last week, we seem to be having approximately 10 thousand unique visitors everyday. This is indeed a virtual landmark that we have reached and it is because all of us share this belief and desire to interact with our own people, talk about our Nepal, and reminisce and indulge in our similarities, - and differences - brought about by our common backgrounds. I was enjoying the thread called "Are we alone???" few days back. We are not alone, there are 10,000 of us here everyday! It feels good to know that there are so many of us here. It's good to be a part of this virtual community!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the visitors for making sajha their destination in the web. Thanks for referring sajha to your friends and making sajha a more fun place to be with your participations and for sharing a wealth of knowledge and your opinions and thoughts, stories, poems, anecdotes and for helping to bring us all closer in this virtual ground.

There is a new poll "IN YOUR OPINION, DO YOU THINK SAJHA.COM IS POLITICALLY BIASED?" that I have created in order to find out the general opinion regarding this. I have tried to keep away from censorship as much as possible, but few times I have to take action when someone seems to be continuously involved in tasteless political propaganda, or continuously involved in derogatory and inconsiderate behaviors. I would like to keep sajha a free forum where you are free to discuss anything as long as you show basic consideration and respect towards others without getting derogatory or using foul language. This poll is a good indicator for me to find out if I have been successful in welcoming all political thoughts in sajha or not. Please take a few moments to Vote!

This year, quite a few other Nepali communities in different parts of the world have decided to share their events and pictures in sajha. Welcome to all of you. It's refreshing to see new pictures from other Nepali communities. Please keep those links coming for all of us to see!

The SajhaDance Night on Sept 9, 2005 was a lot of fun because everyone seemed to come together to have fun! By popular demand we are planning to have another one in Boston soon. If you are out of town, make plans to have Thanksgiving in Boston!

Hope you all had a great Dashain. Warm wishes for Tihar.

Best wishes,
San

वा वा गोतामेको साहित्य , तालि पिटे है मैले ।

के को साहित्य हुनु ब्रो, ब्रोकन रिङरेजीमा सान दाइलाई बधाइ र धन्यवाद दे को पनि।

श्याम्पेन फोर्नु पर्छ सान्दाइ, यत्तिकै बधाइ दिनेवाला छैन म त :P

:-)
-भउते

La mero tarfa bata sabai lai ne badhai specially to san bro.................tapai ko kripa dristi le garda dherai ko chetana khole ko cha.......mero ta chetana aayo....aru ko pani aaudai cha.....this sajha is indeed a revolution for neo relegion called humanity which dont believe in god and etc etc but believe in one soul and d0ing good for humankind...........................that san from bottom of heart

jai hanuman

pheri dont believe in god bhaan ne tara kina jai hanuman bhaneko bhaan la

hanuman ko jasto gyaan ra baal paawos bhanera ne, ani maanabta ko lagi prayog garos bhanera hai

jai hanuman

Neat ! Wish you all the best ! :)

good To hear.
if sajha has so many visitors then i m wondering how many visitors does the following sites has..Please note that the following order is in terms of traffic. For example kantipuronline has the highest traffic followed by nepalnews and so on.
In other words all sites listed from i) till vi) has higher traffic than sajha.com and sited from viii) onwards have lesser traffic than sajha.com

All these datas are based on www.alexa.com pretty good site.

i) kantipuronline.com
ii) nepalnews.com
iii) newsofnepal.com
iv) cybernepal.com.np
v) khattam.com
vi ) nepalisite.com
vii) sajha.com
viii) partynepal.com
ix) nepalipost.com
x) nepalitimes.com


Keep it up --climb up the ladder.

The ranking from Alexa.com is not valid since this ranking is based on people who use the Alexa toolbar. I have a feeling that over 90% of the sajha visitors have never even heard of alexa.com, let alone use their toolbar, I am hearing it for the first time myself.

As far as traffic on other sites is concerned, most other sites do not list the website statistics publicly like sajha.com. Newofnepal.com does list its visitor statistics publicly and below is some main figures comparing sajha.com and newsofnepal.com

From yesterdays numbers (10/21/2005)

Unique visitors:
Sajha.com: 11,322
Newsofnepal.com: 6,675


Page Views:
Sajha.com: 28,949
Newsofnepal.com: 9,844

This data is more accurate and comes directly comes from a third party statistic analyzer that the two sites are using.

It would be interesting to know such details from other sites that coolnepali has listed or if other websites use the same third party stats analyzer (extreme-dm.com) then we can see accurate measurements.

Hi San:

Good to hear that Sajha.com is doing great on expanding every corner of the world.
Congratulations on your humble endeavor bringing the Nepali community on the web.

Well, what lies on just mere numbers???? I would say, we, users, count on "Qualities" rather than "Quantities". I know the statistic Guru does not believe on that, but hey, what you think??? I highly recommend you to maintain the Quality of Sajha- Please do not compromise with the essence of Sajha. I look forward new ideas and new looks on Sajha in near future.

Good Luck!!!

Hitaishi
Quest

San,

Congratulations to you, and to all who have made this possible!!

It's always very good to hear that fellow Nepalis are doing quite well, and that their work gets positively recognized by so many people.

Though personal and professional responsibilities do NOT give me much time these
days to be as active as before on Sajha, I remain a card-carrying supporter of this
site. Thank you for all the good times, loads of friendships and hours of pure fun.

Keep up the good work, and let us know when you want to start --and I bring this up because there is no such thing as free Sajha forever -- another fund-raising drive for the continousl upkeep of Sajha.com.

oohi
ashu
haal: kathmandu

Keep rolling...

Yes there are some sites that many people don't know about but yet they are huge.

For instance-- http://www.craiglist.org
Its a huge site, but you won't hear of that site a lot.

About Alexa...
Its owned by Amazon.com, and also powered by google.com
All big names..

Alexa is one of the largest site of its kind.

"The ranking from Alexa.com is not valid since this ranking is based on people who use the Alexa toolbar." but thats not true...

Firts of all how can you say that its not valid when Alexa has been doing since 1996 and why would Amazon.com buy them??

According to Alexa..

"Site Stats

Alexa gathers Site Stats from a variety of sources to provide key statistics about each site on the web. These include: Traffic Rank and Speed which are derived from Web usage information, and Other sites that link to this site, and Online Since, both of which come from Web content. For an example of Site Stats, see the Alexa Overview page for Schwab.com. "

So ranking is not based on the toolbar that has to be downloaded..

Only the related links info is gathered from th etoolbar users.


I m not going against sajha.com, but i was just trying to show you how others such as Alexa does the ranking. And its a pretty interesting site. and the popularity of sites doesn't depend on the sajha visitor. For example. like I said craiglist.org

You said that your stat is correct/accurate...I disagree.

On newsofnepal.com there are two stats..

Datas on both doesn't match.
So how will you tell which one is correct?

May be you could also put the other stat and can compare.
Doesn't have to accurate/exactly the same but can see if you come up close.

Actually all these stats are not that reliable, but I have to say that Alexa is more reliable, and many companies uses their service for research.

How do I know all these??
Well i do lots of research on websites and stat, and we use alexa's service and have been very helpful.

Anyways Good job..

CoolNepali,

Alexa ranking is based entirely on the number of people who visit sites with the Alexa Toolbar installed on their web browser.

Please visit: http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/traffic_learn_more.html

where it says
"Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users."

That should put your reservations to rest.

There aren't enough words to express how Sajha had enriched my life. I have enjoyed mythical, social, political and other discussions and had participated on them as time permitted.

Kudos to San for adding the beautiful aroma of intellectual convergence and enriching our lives.

Forever Sajha fan,
Shiv

>>coolnepali

Any party, no matter however big names they have behind them, cannot have an accurate estimate of the number of accesses a web server has received unless they
1) have a complete access to the web server ( rights to view the log files of the web server at the least )
or
2) peek all the internet traffic to and from the webserver ( something only the ISP that provides internet access to the web server can do and is illegal )
or
3) receive an access for every access the web server to be accounted receives ( this is how sites like extremetracking.com or webstats4u.com etc work ) and they cannot do that unless the administrator of the web site ( to be accounted ) configures it himself.
or
4) own the Internet ( that's imf88kingpossible)

Your dogmatism is a result of your ignorance ( of the Internet architecture and of the way the Internet is engineered ) .

Don't argue about things you have no idea about especially with a man, who has been administrating one of the largest nepali sites today for years.

How wud u feel if a boy of four comes to you and argues that 4+4 = 9 'coz his teacher, who he thinks is grf**king8 told him so?

Damn, I've been visiting sajha since 2002. It's been three years since I've been visitng this site (after I came here to the west) and it has grown from being just another nepali site, to "the Nepali site", the one that stands out amongst alllllll the others!!!!!!!! What's more, three years ago, there weren't many interesting posts in this site. This site transcends race, culture, diversity and dozens of other nepali dialects by bringing them all together. Yet it still shows us that despite such diversity, we can still maintain our individual cultures and identity and views. I really think Nepal should always remain 4 warna 36 jaat ko SAJHA garden and what better site than SAJHA.COM to exemplify that. I love Sajha.com. Don't you?????????????

Does it matter how many unique hits this site gets everyday? Does it matter if some Alexa whatever site measures how popular the site is? This is the perfect example of thread raiding. They disrupt the peaceful flow of a particular thread by simply deviating the main topic at hand. Congrats to Sajha.com for getting over 10,000 visitors per day. Congrats to Sajha.com even if it gets 1 visitor per day!!!!! Congrats congrats congrats!!!!! If you dont like it, stop visiting it!!!!!!!!!! If you think the stats are wrong, go find them out yourself, dont rely on some Alexa bullshit. Besides how do we know Alexa's stats are right? Simply because its "Alexa"?.....Well I'm gonna start a ebsote with a sexier name called "Agultale-haneko-kukur.com"...and start posting how many hits each site gets!!! Ani herumla ni!!!! Ki kasto eh San dai????????

Good job San ... Now i know why they call you "san the man with the plan" ...keep workin yer magic bro :D

Dear San,
I thought I dropped a wee note to register my full support for what my fellow posters above have to say about Sajha. 10000 is surely a staggering number to go by, and Sajha has doubtless advanced beyond this threshold seamlessly. More significant is the shortness of time it has taken to get where it is now - one big great leap forward, especially when one considers the site's meteoric rise from its surfer-output of a mere 4000 last year. Quite a feat indeed.

Enough is and has been said about why Sajha is what it is. Less attention is perhaps given to who makes this all happen and how. Suffice it to say, I'll put it all down to your relentless energy and dedication with which you have taken on this rather unenviable task of maintaining the site. You have the expertise but most of all, a vision to see things through to a successful conclusion, and Sajha's fame and popularity may well be only a tiny fraction of that vision. So, thank you and very many congratulations. You have all our gratitude and good will.

May Sajha continue to flourish forever and may we get to see its surfers reaching for millions in the fullness of time.
Yours Aye.

San

Please accept my congratulations too.

One thing I admire about you and Sajha.com is the way you've shown your benevolance to promote the organizations that are working for the benefit of Nepal and less fortunate Nepalese.

Me, being involved with Help Nepal Network, always benefitted from your kind and prompt gesture. Please keep it up.

I am proud to be a part of sajha.com since its conception and inception and feel good to be a witness of the growth.

सबैको साझा, सधैंको साझा
(Lou slogan banai diyen maile ta !)