Some brief webmaster dorkiness here: I know that stolenbicycleregistry.com gets about 200 to 350 individual user visits per day (and serves about 1200 pages) - but I wasn't too sure how many people were really searching for stolen bike serial numbers, as opposed to just browsing the SBR listings.
So I ran a little experiment: I tracked the mobile.stolenbicycleregistry.com and the serial number search usage for exactly 24 hours to see how many serial numbers were being run.
In the end, I was happily surprised - in that 24 hours the SBR ran 63 serial number searches for 51 individual users. That's 51 awesome people out there looking for stolen bikes, which made me pretty happy. But it also got me thinking - what if these people were searching on bike serial numbers that just hadn't been registered yet?
As a result, I made a few changes - I just added the option to save serial searches. People searching from both the mobile and the web-based stolen bike serial number search now have the option to save their searches with the SBR for a month. During this time, if someone comes along and registers a bike with a serial number on this list, I'll get a notification email.
This one will be interesting to watch, and I'm curious how many stolen bikes we can ID this way. I'll post the results in a month or two.
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