Just before 5:30 pm this afternoon, PARWICH.ORG received its 250,000th page view – which isn’t bad going, considering that we only launched the site 19 months ago.
Stats buffs might like to know that in that time, we’ve published 2,203 blog posts and we’ve received almost the same number of comments: 2,158 in total. (There have also been over 14,000 spam comments, which are automatically removed by our blogging software – why do these people bother?) We’ve also uploaded a frankly astonishing 4,245 images onto the site – and if you only knew what a tedious process it was to upload each image, you’d be even more astonished!
We’re currently averaging about 470 page views a day, and our busiest day was July 1st 2009, when we received a whopping 1,772 page views as a result of Wakes Week. Our most viewed page on the site, by some considerable distance, is the first Photos page, while our most viewed blog post – bizarrrely enough, but that’s Google for you! – is “Easter Cards & Scrapbooking with the WI“. And finally, our most clicked outbound link is the Paypal donation page, followed by the Ashbourne News Telegraph.
We hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far. It can be a bumpy ride from time to time – and it has certainly been a learning process for all of us – but those of us who work on the blog team remain committed to reflecting as many aspects of village life as we are able to squeeze onto one website. Thanks for reading, and thanks to all who have contributed so far. We’ll do another trumpet-blowing, self-congratulatory post when we reach the half million!
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thank you to all the blog team for the amazing amount of work you do and its great success — for me it has proven to be an extraordinary tool to keep in touch with what is going on, and to bring the village even closer. thank you so much. keep up the good work
I agree Jean. It’s great to be able to keep in touch. However it’s easy to forget that probably not that many people in the village have access to a computor. I have a vague recollection that one of the hopes for the new memorial hall was that it might be possible to have internet access available for everyone. That would be great. Perhaps we could also have some courses so that I can find out how to use all these extra buttons and programmes that I am afraid to touch.
Oh and I would love to be able to do something with all those photos that I have taken and are just sitting in my nice digital camera. Actually I do have to admit to being something of a technophobe and would like to learn how to do these things for myself without having to rely on someone else. Oh and I have tons of stuff I could sell on e-bay if only I knew how……….
great ideas Patti — I would like to learn even more basic stuff — like how to be able to/be interested enough to send an email! and perhaps non-family members might be better to teach us – rather than those techno-wizkids to whom we are closer, but daily despair of our lack of technical abilities/inclinations/abilities/interest?