2006
The peak year 2006
Biggest on every measure: 1.6 million unique visitors a week, 90,000 to 100,000 logged in at once, 56 minutes a day.
I suppose we were at our biggest by every metric, unique visitors, revenue, profit and so on, in 2006. But that's also when I got tired of it.
- 1.2 million active members, “basically through all the years” (Rickard 2024).
- Rickard 2016: for a couple of years LunarStorm had more database-generated page views than Microsoft.com.
- Rickard on P4, Swedish public radio's local channel, 2016: “There could be 50,000 to 60,000 online at the same time” in the Lajv feed.
Sources: SR P3 2014 · SVT/TT: Lunarstorm läggs ned · Internetmuseum podcast #7: Rickard Eriksson and Andreas Harnemo · SR Förmiddag i P4 Östergötland (full interview, Rickard's SoundCloud)