November & December 2019 Transparency Report: Updates, Top Deals, Comments, Forum Posts, Members of The Month + Other Stats

What a hectic 2 months of activity. We had our biggest ever day on OzBargain for Black Friday with 3.9 million pageviews up from 3.1 million pageviews in November 2018. Meanwhile, Boxing Day racked up only 2.65 million up from 2.47 million pageviews from the previous year.

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Our 13th birthday was in November and coincidentally managed to have 13 meetups around the country. Christmas donations were $32,670 spilt between 6 charities bringing our total donations to $297,000. If you are in a position to donate money, then certaintly do so not only for those affected by the bushfires but also to other charities unrelated to the fires.

Questions, comments, please check out the Comments / Feedback / Suggestions Thread 2020. We may be getting a mobile app so I'll have to retract my answer here.

Both November and December Stats are included here. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling…


Site Updates of Interest (Not a full list)

  • Set node editing lock to occur after 30 days (was 14 days). Report is sent if deal is edited after 14 days. Prevents reps revising deals incorrectly, vandalism etc.
  • Redirection for unpublished comments for logged in users. here
  • Do not show revoked deals on user voted page, when the vote was revoked by the same user. here
Members

Members of the Month

November 2019

Our busiest month so far. Here are the winners from last month:

Congratulations!

-Scotty

See more about members of the month

Moderation Stats:

Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
Lysander 108 17.41
dealbot 101 138.42
nocure 64 48.58
Being Askhole 58 46.00
adr8 50 38.64
save50 47 21.62
RichardL 46 67.17
RogueWolf 43 44.23
G77 40 27.50
Clear 38 47.45

Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
JackReardo 10 61.30
GeekLife 7 23.14
lovesabargain88 7 7.86
Crossdude44 6 29.33
CitizenCane 6 22.67
amaneight 6 11.17
FaceDown 5 10.40
BlackwoodHemp 5 2.00
kingphoenix 4 38.50
Bluebench 4 30.75

Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
dealbot 95 145.77
doweyy 36 154.53
tightarse 29 211.34
Being Askhole 28 78.18
RichardL 25 110.16
nocure 25 96.96
RogueWolf 19 82.11
Clear 18 80.61
adr8 16 86.62
brandogs 12 107.58

Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote Comments Comments (Not OP)
lyl 5 84.00 46 6
tightarse 4 469.00 70 23
luketechfast 4 67.25 150 54
Astivita 3 260.33 47 22
IWantThatFlight 2 108.00 3 0
Samanathagrammer 2 69.50 0 0
frogthatchip 2 37.00 8 0
gotyourback 1 858.00 41 12
addictedtoaudio 1 168.00 3 0
xev 1 123.00 28 5

Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)

User Comps Avg Vote
gnv9 183 21.59
skyblue333 54 6.83
Katie2014 29 6.62
fifipink 14 4.64
cheapha 13 9.08
Gold Coast 10 4.20
headphonejack 5 39.20
Bahngain 4 4.25
Simptonym 3 13.67
hamza23 3 11.67

Most Edits by a Power User

User Edits Uniques
alvian 787 731
Baysew 100 93
tonester 98 96
gnv9 68 58
Steptoe 51 50
DuckKnight 42 38
r0xz 41 39
O O 35 34
dasher86 25 25
robinCTS 23 16
Comments

Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)

User Comments Avg Vote +5's +15's -5's -15's
FAST and Curious 1141 0.28 18 4 10 1
jv 762 0.54 47 12 59 9
tshow 551 1.83 55 14 6 1
zeggie 454 1.09 29 5 12 1
eyzonme 446 1.26 38 3 3 0
Spackbace 440 3.44 74 21 3 1
Clear 419 1.35 34 4 0 0
jace88 401 0.76 11 1 1 0
brendanm 388 1.74 42 8 2 0
try2bhelpful 362 0.77 16 2 1 0

Top 10 positively voted comments

Most Popular Comments

Top 10 negatively voted comments

Least Popular Comments

Top 10 controversial comments

Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.

Comments with a net vote of + or - 20% with pos vote count of 10 or more.


Deals

Top 10 fastest deals to the front page

Top 10 fastest deals to 100 votes

Top 10 most popular deals by votes

Top 10 most popular deals by clicks

Top 5 most popular deals by traffic (in pageviews)

  1. [eBay Plus] Black Friday Sale: Apple Watch Series 3 - $299, Dyson V8 Origin - $399, Apple AirPods 2 $99, G. Home Mini $19 & More - 127,754
  2. $1 Big Mac, $1 Large Fries, $2 McChicken (28/11), $1 McFlurry, $2 Large Thickshake + More @ McDonald's via mymacca's App (Nov) - 115,336
  3. Black Friday Deals: 25% off Hisense TVs & More Deals (eg Samsung 75" Ultra HD Smart LED TV $1595 Local Delivery) @ JB Hi-Fi - 96,228
  4. DJI Mavic Pro $624, DJI Spark Drone Alpine White $313 @ Officeworks - 92,185
  5. TCL 75P8M 75" P8M 4K UHD Android LED TV $556 + Delivery @ The Good Guys eBay - 90,944

Most Popular Deals by Category

Category Deal Votes Clicks User Posted
Automotive [QLD] BMW 530i Touring M Sport Package - $79,888 (SAVE $44,603) @ Motorline BMW Daisy Hill 489 14797 thebargainhunter 2019-11-14
Books & Magazines Book Depository: 50% Cashback (Capped $10) @ ShopBack 274 3159 dealbot 2019-11-26
Computing Computer Alliance 20% off Storewide @ eBay 326 17154 tightarse 2019-11-17
Dining & Takeaway Large Value Range Pizzas $3.95 @ Domino's 368 7635 doweyy 2019-11-18
Education Free Course - Automate The Boring Stuff with Python Programming Course @ Udemy 132 6172 dealbot 2019-11-05
Electrical & Electronics Kogan SmarterHome 1.7L Glass Smart Kettle with Alexa / Google Home Integration $49 + Post @ Kogan 633 9937 mingofmongo 2019-11-26
Entertainment 20% off iTunes Gift Cards (Excludes $20 Cards) @ Coles (in Store) 429 6781 nocure 2019-11-17
Fashion & Apparel Kathmandu Bealey Men's GORE-TEX Jacket $136 Delivered (RRP $399.98) @ Kathmandu 191 18750 Leuke 2019-11-03
Financial [Registrations Closed] American Express Shop Small - Spend $20 or More, Get $10 Back up to 5 Times 679 6904 Austechguy 2019-11-01
Gaming Nintendo Switch 2019 Console with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Download $349 Delivered @ Amazon AU 467 11334 RichardL 2019-11-29
Groceries Mutti Whole Peeled Canned Tomatoes - $1.00 @ Woolworths 282 3896 stickyfingers 2019-11-23
Health & Beauty Extra 10% off In-Store & Online @ Chemist Warehouse (Exclusions Apply) 236 5004 dealbot 2019-11-27
Home & Garden Self Inflating Christmas Tree with Santa 1.8m $9.99 (Was $75.19) + Shipping ($0 with Prime / $39 Spend) + More @ Amazon AU 427 9304 Astivita 2019-11-23
Internet Shodan.io Lifetime Membership for USD$1 (~AUD$1.50) 308 7585 danielpenna 2019-11-23
Mobile 100GB Mobile Plan for $28/Month @ Circles.life (New Customers) 287 5070 Smogul 2019-11-11
Other eBay Australia: 12% Cashback @ Cashrewards (No Cap, No Min Spend, Includes Officeworks, Desktop Browser, Excludes Coupons) 734 3577 tightarse 2019-11-21
Pets [VIC] Greyhound Adoption Day 16/11 Adoption Fee Waived for All Greyhounds Rehomed @ GAP Seymour 164 1971 Admiral Ackbar 2019-11-13
Sports & Outdoors DJI Mavic Pro $624, DJI Spark Drone Alpine White $313 @ Officeworks 530 18025 dosada 2019-11-24
Toys & Kids Hanayama Cast Metal Brain Teaser Puzzle 'Chain' (Level 6) $6.20 + Shipping (Free w/ Prime) @ Amazon US via AU 208 7641 Bunsen 2019-11-16
Travel Velocity Frequent Flyer - 15-30% Bonus on Point Transfers to Velocity 225 1534 janster 2019-11-01

Competitions

Most Popular Competitions (by votes)

Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)

Most Won Competitions


Other stats

Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)

  1. Click Frenzy Go Wild 2019: Tuesday Nov 12 2019 - 93,703
  2. [AMA] I founded OzBargain 13 years ago. Ask me (almost) anything, again - 30,524
  3. 7-Eleven Fuel App Watch - Nationwide - 29,005
  4. Disgusting Racism by Australian Youfoodz CEO and Actress Fiancée- 26,395
  5. Osko - I've been scammed haven't I? - 24,870

Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)

  1. List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 19,842
  2. Amex Shop Small Guide - 14,183
  3. Discounted eGift Cards - 8,201
  4. Price Comparison Sites - 3,223
  5. Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees - 2,583

Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)

  1. eBay - 124,070
  2. Dominos - 121,209
  3. Uber Eats - 96,834
  4. McDonalds - 36,614
  5. JB Hi-Fi - 32,914

Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)

Store Count Avg Vote
Amazon AU 388 32.05
JB Hi-Fi 182 40.31
Harvey Norman 90 32.71
Amazon Global Store 87 28.62
The Good Guys 77 40.64
Woolworths 72 40.38
BIG W 57 43.11
Shopping Express 56 24.18
Kogan 54 34.00
Bunnings Warehouse 53 26.15

Top 10 most subscribed to stores

Top 10 Search Alerts

Query Count
nintendo switch 833
lego 495
dyson 357
philips hue 308
rm williams 291
sonos 282
nvidia shield 217
japan 217
ps4 208
sony wh-1000xm3 207

Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)

  1. Facebook - 139,426
  2. Whirlpool Forums - 132,264
  3. Google News107,582
  4. Oursteps - 81,511
  5. googleapis.com (Google/Google Now/Discover/Android recommended stories) - 54,131

GoogleApis/Google Now split off into News

Top Browsers (by Sessions)

  1. Chrome 61.74%
  2. Safari 25.60%
  3. Firefox 3.90%
  4. Samsung Internet 3.96%
  5. Android Webview 1.12%

Everything else


December

Members

Members of the Month

December 2019

Since I've awarded both dealbot and gnv9 for the contributors of 2019, I thought we'll give to other big contributors last month.

Congratulations!

-Scotty

See more about members of the month

Moderation Stats:

Most Deals Posted by a User & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
dealbot 90 132.00
Lysander 86 47.20
nocure 61 58.64
Being Askhole 51 57.73
save50 51 28.84
RogueWolf 47 33.26
adr8 40 37.75
WoodYouLikeSomeCash 39 15.10
hamza23 36 53.39
RichardL 32 39.56

Most Deals Posted by a New User & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
Insert Username 6 41.17
rockstartmt 6 19.33
CreamDonut 5 28.00
frogthatchip 4 27.00
GreenBarMen 3 7.00
JINXI 3 4.33
Samanathagrammer 2 69.50
gdo 2 38.50
Pimpiticians 4 Life 2 33.00
GreenGadgetsAus 2 29.50

Most Front-Page Deals posted by Users & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote
dealbot 76 152.93
nocure 39 80.82
Being Askhole 34 77.79
doweyy 30 136.23
Lysander 18 189.94
tightarse 17 207.35
hamza23 17 94.18
adr8 16 71.12
save50 14 75.64
RichardL 13 74.69

Most Front-Page Deals posted by Store Reps & Vote Avg (Top 10)

User Deals Avg Vote Comments Comments (Not OP)
luketechfast 9 110.89 283 65
tightarse 7 418.71 241 70
xev 6 68.00 64 0
Astivita 5 191.80 59 2
Clear 5 81.20 421 195
Gearbite 3 98.67 64 25
IWantThatFlight 3 76.00 2 0
gotyourback 2 665.50 102 73
lyl 2 68.50 53 21
xx808xx 2 68.00 0 0

Most Competitions posted by users (Top 10)

User Comps Avg Vote
gnv9 181 21.41
cheapha 121 4.02
Katie2014 74 4.53
fifipink 9 6.89
Gold Coast 8 5.75
headphonejack 7 26.14
Phalaxis 5 21.40
chadiwrx 3 14.33
tsal7333 3 9.67
skyblue333 3 7.67

Most Edits by a Power User

User Edits Uniques
alvian 588 551
Baysew 119 117
O O 88 67
DuckKnight 88 82
robinCTS 85 52
tonester 63 59
Steptoe 57 51
r0xz 42 40
gnv9 31 31
TakaHas 18 18
Comments

Top 10 Commenters (# of comments, votes)

User Comments Avg Vote +5's +15's -5's -15's
FAST and Curious 1021 0.22 18 3 12 0
jv 631 0.32 49 10 44 9
Spackbace 503 2.59 79 20 6 4
WoodYouLikeSomeCash 499 0.44 15 5 19 3
Infidel 486 0.64 12 1 1 0
lostn 455 0.60 12 1 1 0
whooah1979 421 1.00 30 6 8 2
brendanm 389 3.10 48 14 3 0
TEER3X 358 1.23 30 5 7 0
jace88 353 0.70 15 1 0 0

Top 10 positively voted comments

Most Popular Comments

Top 10 negatively voted comments

Least Popular Comments

Top 10 controversial comments

Comment +Votes -Votes User Posted
The lottery in general is 23 21 Scrooge McDuck 2019-12-26
A brand only sold by Dick 22 22 Spackbace 2019-12-27
alt-right 20 21 PainToad 2019-12-06
If I wanna get updates on 19 17 TheDukeOfNukem 2019-12-20
And you didn't realise the 15 15 Spackbace 2019-12-20
Free Aluminium Coke 15 14 jv 2019-12-10
Mate I am so pissed off at 14 12 Korban Dallas 2019-12-06
you don't have to buy 14 13 Nugs 2019-12-15
Being Vegan can be expensive 14 14 Ge3ks 2019-12-01
Most of them will end up 13 12 tshow 2019-12-19

Comments with a net vote between 2 and -2 where the comment has 6 or more positive votes.

Comment +Votes -Votes User Posted
A bicycle is a good 54 47 stringer 2019-12-15
Lol guardian 29 35 mlburnian 2019-12-06
The lottery in general is 23 21 Scrooge McDuck 2019-12-26
Border controls should be 21 25 Diji1 2019-12-27
Aluminum and Aluminium are 20 24 troll0l0l 2019-12-10
alt-right 20 21 PainToad 2019-12-06
If I wanna get updates on 19 17 TheDukeOfNukem 2019-12-20
Already posted it. But thank 17 21 Lysander 2019-12-31
Free Aluminium Coke 15 14 jv 2019-12-10
you don't have to buy 14 13 Nugs 2019-12-15

Comments with a net vote of + or - 20% with pos vote count of 10 or more.


Deals

Top 10 fastest deals to the front page

Top 10 fastest deals to 100 votes

Top 10 most popular deals by votes

Top 10 most popular deals by clicks

Top 5 most popular deals by traffic (in pageviews)

  1. Bose Soundlink Mini II Special Edition (Luxe Silver) $101.97 Delivered @ Bose Australia (Hack Required) - 100,177
  2. 50000 Telstra Plus Rewards Points for Direct Debit - 75,945
  3. Free Google Nest Mini for YouTube Premium / Google Play Music Subscribers (AUD Subscribers) - 75,205
  4. [Refurb] Bose SoundSport Free Wireless Headphones - Black $79.95 Delivered @ Bose - 59,808
  5. Little Creatures Pale Ale 330ml - $36 Per Carton (24 Single Bottles) C&C @ BWS (Usually ~ $70) - 52,407

Most Popular Deals by Category

Category Deal Votes Clicks User Posted
Automotive [QLD] Unleaded 98+ $1.369/L @ 7-Eleven Clontarf 324 834 dealbot 2019-12-03
Books & Magazines Book Depository - 50% Cashback (Cap $10) @ ShopBack 250 3186 dealbot 2019-12-10
Computing Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Portable $100 (Save $99) @ Big W 375 13439 superpete 2019-12-29
Dining & Takeaway Uber Eats - Free Delivery for The Rest of 2019 556 2476 ausmechkeyboards 2019-12-28
Education 2 Months Free Subscription to Headspace (Meditation App) 121 1584 AngryAlfred 2019-12-19
Electrical & Electronics Free Google Nest Mini for YouTube Premium / Google Play Music Subscribers (AUD Subscribers) 887 19640 MSG 2019-12-13
Entertainment 30% off Blu-Ray, 4K & DVDs and 20% off CDs & Vinyl @ JB Hi-Fi 149 8968 JerryB 2019-12-23
Fashion & Apparel AmEx Statement Credit: Spend $200 at Myer, Get $40 Back 504 4947 couger 2019-12-01
Financial Get $10 Promotion Credit When You Buy $50 or More in Amazon AU Gift Cards @ Amazon AU 519 7113 edw0000000 2019-12-26
Gaming [Switch] Robonauts Free (Was $5.99) + 9 Other Free Qubic Games Coming from December 16 @ Nintendo eShop 366 1699 doweyy 2019-12-11
Groceries Little Creatures Pale Ale 330ml - $36 Per Carton (24 Single Bottles) C&C @ BWS (Usually ~ $70) 783 18634 werdplaya58 2019-12-12
Health & Beauty Honeywell 1015846 Disposable P2 Mask Superone Valved (Pack of 20) $11.11 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU 341 7028 TRAVELO 2019-12-10
Home & Garden Self Inflating Santa on Present 1.8m $10 (Was $62) + Delivery ($0 with Prime / $39 Spend) + More @ Astivita Amazon AU 375 4746 Astivita 2019-12-11
Internet Free $20 Voucher with 30 Day eBay Plus Trial 171 4196 albertagung 2019-12-14
Mobile 50000 Telstra Plus Rewards Points for Direct Debit 506 12791 markis10 2019-12-04
Other $5 Bonus Cashback ($5 Min Spend) on eBay.com.au via ShopBack 858 5033 gotyourback 2019-12-02
Pets Two Free Samples of Dog Food from Black Hawk 138 3722 donga100 2019-12-15
Sports & Outdoors Free - $15 Voucher (No Min Spend) @ Anaconda (in-Store Only) 276 10266 dealbot 2019-12-13
Toys & Kids Settlers of Catan $37.45 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU 239 3865 Emdawg 2019-12-15
Travel Free Ascott Hotel Platinum Membership (New Accounts) 547 11446 Devinior 2019-12-15

Competitions

Most Popular Competitions (by votes)

Most Popular Competitions (by clicks)

Most Won Competitions

Note: Body Shop comp appeared to give out generic codes so many people "won".


Other stats

Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)

  1. Boxing Day 2019 Discussion. Catalogues + Sales, Opening Hours - 36,350
  2. 7-Eleven Fuel App Watch - Nationwide - 26,728
  3. I Have $200,000 Cash - Should I Buy a Property?- 23,128
  4. How Do I Increase My Income ! Help Needed - 21,367
  5. Would You Ever Buy a House if You Were Single? - 20,794

Top 5 most popular wiki pages by traffic (in pageviews)

  1. List of Birthday Deals/Frebies - 16,374
  2. Discounted eGift Cards - 8,210
  3. Price Comparison Sites - 3,371
  4. Cards with No Overseas Transaction Fees - 2,298
  5. List of Chinese Buying Sites - 1,410

Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews of their store page)

  1. eBay - 126,290
  2. Dominos - 118,739
  3. Uber Eats - 56,678
  4. Pizza Hut - 26,998
  5. JB Hi-Fi - 24,479

Top 10 most popular stores (amount of published deals posted)

Store Count Avg Vote
Amazon AU 571 36.22
Amazon US/Global Store 113 35.97
JB Hi-Fi 113 45.25
Harvey Norman 105 28.30
The Good Guys 87 38.66
BIG W 76 41.37
Woolworths 67 46.76
Kogan 63 24.10
Coles 62 43.02
Myer 61 28.10

Top 10 most subscribed to stores

Top 10 Search Alerts

Query Count
nintendo switch 833
lego 495
dyson 357
philips hue 308
rm williams 291
sonos 282
nvidia shield 217
japan 217
ps4 208
sony wh-1000xm3 207

Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)

  1. Whirlpool Forums - 128,803
  2. Google News 127,453
  3. Facebook - 119,137
  4. Oursteps - 65,747
  5. Twitter - 47,973

GoogleApis/Google Now split off into News

Top Browsers (by Sessions)

  1. Chrome 61.09%
  2. Safari 26.44%
  3. Samsung Internet 4.19%
  4. Firefox 3.77%
  5. Android Webview 2.30%

Everything else

Real time stats from our wiki

2019: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - August - September - October
2018: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2017: Zeitgeist - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug & Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2016: Zeitgeist Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - August - September - October November - Dec
2015: Zeitgeist Dec - Nov - Oct - Sept - Aug - Jul - Jun -May - Apr - Mar - Jan
2014: Zeitgeist - Nov - Oct - Sept

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