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Originally Posted by Princeton

Are you happy with that number?

Yes and no. Yes, because:

• I stop virtually all spam bots
• I avoid registrations with inactive email accounts. I have way to much problems with inactive email accounts and avoiding blacklisting by email providers.
• Users are forced to read the rules. The group that does not take the effort to read them would cause problems after registration.

No, because the rate is pretty low.

Originally Posted by Princeton

Are you using Google Analytics?
If yes, why not post a screenshot of your funnel?

Yes, I am but the funnel data does not make much sense.

1. According to analytics, 8.328 users entered the register process in January.
2. 2.643 (32%) agreed to the rules and proceeded to confirm their email, while 5.685 (68%) aborted.
3. 2.643 users confirmed their email address and proceeded to the registration form. This is 100% of those that proceeded to confirm their email, while bounces show that many email addresses are not valid.
4. 2.749 users completed the registration form. This is 106 users more than entered it. Mind that in reality a number of other scripts stop a substantial number of registrations here.

My registration statistics in vbulletin state that 1.737 new members registered in January.

So the whole funnel is skewed.