Yesterday I mailed 1000 people who were on our list from the holding page and also let my friends on twitter know about the site so we could get some people on here to do real testing. It proved to be a really handy exercise, it goes to show that no matter how much you think something is ready you can never be sure untill a group of real people get their hands on it!
Some stats from our first day of beta testing :
- 260 users registered
- 460 images uploaded
- 1400 visits
- 13,000 page views
- 284MB site bandwidth
- 600MB Amazon S3 Bandwidth
The experience has been really helpfull and thrown up lots of glitches that need fixing, usability features that need adding etc so we will be working on these over the next week or so before I do some more promotion.