December 2005 News
December 31 2005
The large visitor response to Cards From Ogden Point continued to the end of the month. The page count for the year passed the 100,000 mark at approximately 6PM on Dec. 31.At month's end over 26.3% of the yearly page views were in December.The number of visitors tied May at 1957 visits.The December visitors viewed 26,394 pages while the May visitors only viewed 14,123 pages. The final counts for December were very satisfying.
The extra traffic from the contest moved Cards From Ogden Point into 27th place in the top 40 sites of the 48221 sites on the MyPostCards.net system on January 1 2006.
This ranking is taken from the activity on the server on which actual cards are sent and received. The statistics below are the traffic to and from Cards From Ogden Point whether or not the visitor sends or receives a card.
December 2005 statistics forCards From Ogden Point:
Daily unique visitors for December 2005: 1957
Page views for December 2005: 26,394
Number of countries represented in the December totals: 71
Different languages of site visitors for December 2005: 21
Total visitors for 2005: 9028
Total Page Views for 2005: 100,278
There was one visitor from hydro.mb.ca in Winnipeg who visited 242 pages on December 28. That was the only person to visit over 200 pages after the 23rd. There were a number who viewed between 100 and 200 pages.
December 27 2005
In response to a very good suggestion from a voter in the contest, I created and added thank you cards to the Cards From Ogden Point line up.
Click Here For Thank You Cards From Ogden Point
In the afternoon of Dec. 27th the page view counter passed 20,000 pages for the month of December.
The voting in the CardMaster competition continues and I am extremely pleased with my performance there. The MyPostCards Network claims to have 48,221 sites in their system and several of the sites in the contest are in the "Top 40 Sites" on that system. I have no idea how many visitors those sites get. I do see that one of the other sites that is not in the "Top 40" has over 4,000 visitors and 14,000 page views per month every month this year.
The ranking for the "Top 40" is based on the MyPostCards server traffic which is just the sending and receiving of cards. The visitor and page view numbers for the site are the people who visit the site whether they send a card or not. One has a direct bearing on the other as you can't send a card without visiting the site but things like my puzzles and slide shows may entertain the visitors and keep them on the site for longer visits but that won't change the MyPostCards ranking unless the visitor sends a card. My estimates for December is that one card is sent for every 45 to 50 pages viewed. There is no way to correlate the number of visitors to the number of cards sent as 100 cards sent by 200 visitors could indicate that half the visitors set one card each. It could also indicate that 2 visitors sent 50 cards each and the other 198 didn't send any cards. My sense from the other counters on the site is that in December a number of people used the site to send several cards each. There is no way to quantify that. I also think that in other months the ratio would be less cards per visitor. At Christmas and The New Year, it is more likely that an individual visitor will send more than one card. At other times like birthdays etc, a visitor will not have a list of recipients -- they will want to send one card.
December 23 2005
By 10 AM on the 23rd Cards From Ogden Point had 351 votes in the CardMaster Championship -- more votes than the site received in any previous contest.
December had also become the site's busiest month. On the 22nd the number of page views in December exceeded those in any previous month.(The total count for December 2005 had also exceeded the total views and visits for all of 2004 by this time.)At 10 AM on the 23rd, there were 16074 pages viewed by 1108 visitors in December.This is an average of 14.5 pages per visitor.The previous high month was May with 14123 pages viewed by 1957 visitors(an average of 7.2 pages per visit.)
May had the large influx of visitors at the end of the month from my listing on the Langa List as well as Mother's Day earlier in the month. The visitors on those days didn't visit nearly as many pages as those at Christmas are. The number of pages per visit has been steadily increasing since the additions of slide shows and puzzles in the fall. December has no "big days" like the ones at the end of May, it has had a steady stream of traffic all month that is growing as Christmas approaches.
The large visitor numbers on the 23rd included one particular visitor who increased the counter readings all by themselves. A visitor from Warren Pa. watched the slide shows for nearly 5 hours while they viewed 1434 pages.
They aren't the only visitor this month who viewed large numbers of pages. Other "major visits" include:
A visitor from Calgary on Dec. 15 who visited 476 pages.
A visitor from Warren Pa. (maybe the same person) on Dec. 12 who visited 333 pages.
A visitor from Ottawa on Dec. 10 who visited 466 pages.
A visitor from Winnipeg on Dec.4 who visited 524 pages.
December 20 2005
The Winter holidays contest started well with Cards From Ogden Point ending up at the top of the listing page.
The combination of the contest and the exposure the site has had all year are providing more visits than I would have imagined possible -- especially a year ago.
Shortly after noon on the 20th with Christmas Day and New Years Eve still to come in the month, the visitor count hit 700 visitors who visited over 10,000 pages during the first 19.5 days in the month of December.
The contest runs till January so the winners are far from being decided.
Click here to see the votes received by Cards From Ogden Point.
Click here to see the Cardmaster Hall Of Fame.
December 1 2005
I added Christmas, New Year Cards, and pictures of the Victoria BC Santa Claus Parade to Cards From Ogden Point for the holiday season.
Click Here for the Christmas Cards.
Click Here for the New Years Cards.
Click Here for the Parade Cards.
The large visitor response to Cards From Ogden Point continued to the end of the month. The page count for the year passed the 100,000 mark at approximately 6PM on Dec. 31.At month's end over 26.3% of the yearly page views were in December.The number of visitors tied May at 1957 visits.The December visitors viewed 26,394 pages while the May visitors only viewed 14,123 pages. The final counts for December were very satisfying.
The extra traffic from the contest moved Cards From Ogden Point into 27th place in the top 40 sites of the 48221 sites on the MyPostCards.net system on January 1 2006.
This ranking is taken from the activity on the server on which actual cards are sent and received. The statistics below are the traffic to and from Cards From Ogden Point whether or not the visitor sends or receives a card.
December 2005 statistics forCards From Ogden Point:
Daily unique visitors for December 2005: 1957
Page views for December 2005: 26,394
Number of countries represented in the December totals: 71
Different languages of site visitors for December 2005: 21
Total visitors for 2005: 9028
Total Page Views for 2005: 100,278
There was one visitor from hydro.mb.ca in Winnipeg who visited 242 pages on December 28. That was the only person to visit over 200 pages after the 23rd. There were a number who viewed between 100 and 200 pages.
December 27 2005
In response to a very good suggestion from a voter in the contest, I created and added thank you cards to the Cards From Ogden Point line up.
Click Here For Thank You Cards From Ogden Point
In the afternoon of Dec. 27th the page view counter passed 20,000 pages for the month of December.
The voting in the CardMaster competition continues and I am extremely pleased with my performance there. The MyPostCards Network claims to have 48,221 sites in their system and several of the sites in the contest are in the "Top 40 Sites" on that system. I have no idea how many visitors those sites get. I do see that one of the other sites that is not in the "Top 40" has over 4,000 visitors and 14,000 page views per month every month this year.
The ranking for the "Top 40" is based on the MyPostCards server traffic which is just the sending and receiving of cards. The visitor and page view numbers for the site are the people who visit the site whether they send a card or not. One has a direct bearing on the other as you can't send a card without visiting the site but things like my puzzles and slide shows may entertain the visitors and keep them on the site for longer visits but that won't change the MyPostCards ranking unless the visitor sends a card. My estimates for December is that one card is sent for every 45 to 50 pages viewed. There is no way to correlate the number of visitors to the number of cards sent as 100 cards sent by 200 visitors could indicate that half the visitors set one card each. It could also indicate that 2 visitors sent 50 cards each and the other 198 didn't send any cards. My sense from the other counters on the site is that in December a number of people used the site to send several cards each. There is no way to quantify that. I also think that in other months the ratio would be less cards per visitor. At Christmas and The New Year, it is more likely that an individual visitor will send more than one card. At other times like birthdays etc, a visitor will not have a list of recipients -- they will want to send one card.
December 23 2005
By 10 AM on the 23rd Cards From Ogden Point had 351 votes in the CardMaster Championship -- more votes than the site received in any previous contest.
December had also become the site's busiest month. On the 22nd the number of page views in December exceeded those in any previous month.(The total count for December 2005 had also exceeded the total views and visits for all of 2004 by this time.)At 10 AM on the 23rd, there were 16074 pages viewed by 1108 visitors in December.This is an average of 14.5 pages per visitor.The previous high month was May with 14123 pages viewed by 1957 visitors(an average of 7.2 pages per visit.)
May had the large influx of visitors at the end of the month from my listing on the Langa List as well as Mother's Day earlier in the month. The visitors on those days didn't visit nearly as many pages as those at Christmas are. The number of pages per visit has been steadily increasing since the additions of slide shows and puzzles in the fall. December has no "big days" like the ones at the end of May, it has had a steady stream of traffic all month that is growing as Christmas approaches.
The large visitor numbers on the 23rd included one particular visitor who increased the counter readings all by themselves. A visitor from Warren Pa. watched the slide shows for nearly 5 hours while they viewed 1434 pages.
They aren't the only visitor this month who viewed large numbers of pages. Other "major visits" include:
A visitor from Calgary on Dec. 15 who visited 476 pages.
A visitor from Warren Pa. (maybe the same person) on Dec. 12 who visited 333 pages.
A visitor from Ottawa on Dec. 10 who visited 466 pages.
A visitor from Winnipeg on Dec.4 who visited 524 pages.
December 20 2005
The Winter holidays contest started well with Cards From Ogden Point ending up at the top of the listing page.
The combination of the contest and the exposure the site has had all year are providing more visits than I would have imagined possible -- especially a year ago.
Shortly after noon on the 20th with Christmas Day and New Years Eve still to come in the month, the visitor count hit 700 visitors who visited over 10,000 pages during the first 19.5 days in the month of December.
The contest runs till January so the winners are far from being decided.
Click here to see the votes received by Cards From Ogden Point.
Click here to see the Cardmaster Hall Of Fame.
December 1 2005
I added Christmas, New Year Cards, and pictures of the Victoria BC Santa Claus Parade to Cards From Ogden Point for the holiday season.
Click Here for the Christmas Cards.
Click Here for the New Years Cards.
Click Here for the Parade Cards.
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