October 1 -- Welcome to the new Visitors!
Welcome to all the new visitors to my various web sites. Cards From Ogden Point has had visitors arriving in record numbers for the last few days and they seem to be finding things they want to see as they are staying around the site for a while. The average visit to the site has been 15.8 pages today and 12 pages for the month of September.
September started off as a slow month for visitors with total visitor and page view counts continuing the steady pace of the summer. The first 27 days of September saw 687 visitors who viewed 5,924 pages. That is an average of 25 visitors per day and 8.6 pages per visit or 219 pages per day. Those numbers are consistent with the earlier months of the year when months with "Card Occasions" like Valentines Day, Easter, and Mother's Day got larger totals, and other months received similar numbers of visitors to what September was seeing. It looked like September was going to see similar statistics to March, June, July and/or August.
Then on September 28, the dam broke with 71 visitors viewing 1,258 pages. That is almost 3 times the average number of visitors per day for the first part of the month, and over 5 times the average number of pages viewed per day compared to the first 27 days. That was only the beginning. The 29th saw 243 visitors view 3,525 pages. The 30th saw those totals eclipsed by noon. By 8pm, September 30 had established itself as the second busiest day for visitors in the history of the site (second only to the huge influx of visitors that came from being listed on www.langa.com in May 2005) and the busiest day for page views in the site's history leading the 3,801 page views on Valentines Day by 150%. The final counts for the day show 384 visitors and 6,211 page views. The final 2 days of the month took September from being an average month to the fourth busiest month in site history witth 1,386 visitors viewing 16,918 pages.
Those numbers may not be competitive with major commercial web sites on an Internet backbone system -- they are amazing for a site that runs from a computer that sits in the corner of my living room running on an ADSL connection.
So if you are a new visitor to my sites, WELCOME! Please do two things:
1) let me know how you react to my site using the feedback or guest book links, and
2)please come back often.
In and amongst all that influx of visitors I was also doing some things I feel will improve the site. I edited the HTML code that the visitor's computer "reads" to show the pages in their browser. That exercise amounted to a "tune-up" as there was lots of code that I was able to make easier for the browsers to load, and I cleared out some things that would have caused pages to load slowly, and/or cause the viewers' computers to work harder. I also found and installed a script that checks that the card is properly filled out before the sender is allowed to move to the next step in the card creation process. It specifically identifies what is missing on the card and asks the creator to go back and add the information. I'm sure it will annoy some visitors (who would have gotten a rather ugly error page from the system sooner or later anyway and/or may have sent a card that was never received). That process took some time, and parts of the system were updated as I went along -- the last update involving the transfer of 16,888 files to my server.
I added Autumn Splendour and Thanksgiving Cards to the index for the site and entered the Fall Holiday Contest from the MyPostCards Network on September 30 to be in time for Canadian Thanksgiving on October 9.
The Autumn Splendour Page
The Thanksgiving Card Page
The Fall Holidays Contest
The contest is scheduled to start on October 1. If the link does not go to the Fall contest, please check back later.
September started off as a slow month for visitors with total visitor and page view counts continuing the steady pace of the summer. The first 27 days of September saw 687 visitors who viewed 5,924 pages. That is an average of 25 visitors per day and 8.6 pages per visit or 219 pages per day. Those numbers are consistent with the earlier months of the year when months with "Card Occasions" like Valentines Day, Easter, and Mother's Day got larger totals, and other months received similar numbers of visitors to what September was seeing. It looked like September was going to see similar statistics to March, June, July and/or August.
Then on September 28, the dam broke with 71 visitors viewing 1,258 pages. That is almost 3 times the average number of visitors per day for the first part of the month, and over 5 times the average number of pages viewed per day compared to the first 27 days. That was only the beginning. The 29th saw 243 visitors view 3,525 pages. The 30th saw those totals eclipsed by noon. By 8pm, September 30 had established itself as the second busiest day for visitors in the history of the site (second only to the huge influx of visitors that came from being listed on www.langa.com in May 2005) and the busiest day for page views in the site's history leading the 3,801 page views on Valentines Day by 150%. The final counts for the day show 384 visitors and 6,211 page views. The final 2 days of the month took September from being an average month to the fourth busiest month in site history witth 1,386 visitors viewing 16,918 pages.
Those numbers may not be competitive with major commercial web sites on an Internet backbone system -- they are amazing for a site that runs from a computer that sits in the corner of my living room running on an ADSL connection.
So if you are a new visitor to my sites, WELCOME! Please do two things:
1) let me know how you react to my site using the feedback or guest book links, and
2)please come back often.
In and amongst all that influx of visitors I was also doing some things I feel will improve the site. I edited the HTML code that the visitor's computer "reads" to show the pages in their browser. That exercise amounted to a "tune-up" as there was lots of code that I was able to make easier for the browsers to load, and I cleared out some things that would have caused pages to load slowly, and/or cause the viewers' computers to work harder. I also found and installed a script that checks that the card is properly filled out before the sender is allowed to move to the next step in the card creation process. It specifically identifies what is missing on the card and asks the creator to go back and add the information. I'm sure it will annoy some visitors (who would have gotten a rather ugly error page from the system sooner or later anyway and/or may have sent a card that was never received). That process took some time, and parts of the system were updated as I went along -- the last update involving the transfer of 16,888 files to my server.
I added Autumn Splendour and Thanksgiving Cards to the index for the site and entered the Fall Holiday Contest from the MyPostCards Network on September 30 to be in time for Canadian Thanksgiving on October 9.
The Autumn Splendour Page
The Thanksgiving Card Page
The Fall Holidays Contest
The contest is scheduled to start on October 1. If the link does not go to the Fall contest, please check back later.
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