computer/internet questions
Hey mike I was just wondering what the traffic was like on the board. I see whos posting and how often but what kind of "flybys" do you git on average. and how does one get a web site more up on the radar so to speak.
Mike
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Always a silent majority
Looking at website statistics reminds me that any societies majority is always silent. It's us rowdy individuals who you hear from!
January-2008 - 824 Unique visitors, 16,862 pages viewed (to date, 3 weeks)
December-2007 - 1,009 Unique visitors, 18,638 pages viewed
For all of 2007 - 274,029 pages viewed
For all of 2006 - 254,363 pages viewed
So unique visitors is basically counting the IP addresses that visited. That is not individual people but individual computers. I see 4 of Google's servers in that list, plus a few dozen other search engines. So those are not real people. If I had to guess at the number of actual people then maybe about 250.
Pages viewed is just that. 824 visitors looked at 16,862 pages this month. That's about 20 pages per month that each visitor is looking at on average. Considering the posting rate around here that is about right for looking at just the new stuff.
Considering that this is a niche site and that we have had no controversy (sarcasm) in the last couple of years, those seem like decent numbers to me. The more interesting news and commentary that gets posted here the higher those number will go. Compelling content is what draws traffic I think.
What do you think of those numbers?
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Michael P. Johnson Jr.
Admin & Owner
Thats interesting, of course
Thats interesting, of course now comes the speculative side of my mind, for which there are no answers, lile who are these people? why did they come to the site, did they get what they expected? I need to figure out how to monitor our e-mail traffic. I check out our counter from time to time by looking at it but that means the last notch on the counter is me. there are times I see the counter rise by more than ten a day and sometimes not so much...I need to track when it happens to see if it corresponds with an event we have done...... so I can determine a course for recruiting, the web site is good...but I have got to be more diligent in the updateing of such...keep the schedule good and updated some event pictures this summer but need to do more....am now forming a team witin our group that is interested in helping with the web design and hopefully soon to come will be a civilian page, but when I give out our cards to people who are interested I also need to get their contact info to give a follow-up call or e-mail so they dont get lost in the neather....
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum
Web site
One thing we need is a guest book, on the website, that will allow people to leave comments without sending emails. Some people don't want to give their Email to just anyone because of fear of Spam. I am hoping to serious look at the website this weekend and see what needs to be done/changed/added I also want to see I can make changed to have it load quicker, It takes a half a min to load some pages with DSL, it must be torture with dial up.
Deb
we had a guest book once.
we had a guest book once. but it was posted upon by miscreants during a period of "dark days", so we took it down. I am glad you have taken such an intrest....
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum
Exceptions taken
Mike,
I ended up taking the heat for the things written in your guest book. Although I was able to clear myself, it was always thought that a member of my unit wrote the disputed item. We never did discover who the culprit was but what was written, though un-necessary, was not far from being true. The only thing I had real issues with was the fact that the writer didn't come forward take credit. So if you want to imply we are miscreants...so be it. Some things are just better never to have been brought up to begin with.
Will
I probally shouldnt post as
I probally shouldnt post as my atemp to difuse this might fail.................
You assume too much. Just a statement of facts, there were some kind of miscreants and inflammatory messages were left. I never named any miscreants in this last post. as referenced in my post I alluded to dark days and things were bad all around, those days are over and a novo ordo seclorum exists. things have gotten better and can continue to be so as long as a simple explanation of why we dont have a guest book on our site doesnt get misconstued as an attempt to ignight old buried rivalries. yes some of the things that were left on the book at their base may have been accurate, but the language used was unnecessary. and you are right that it was a shame that the real writer never came forward, for all we know it might have been someone on the outside of both groups who had a desire to see us implode.
We removed the book and the problem was contained.
So sit back and relax, have a cup of coffee. unwind a bit.
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum
Commercial Mud
A long time ago, back in the days when I ran a simply message board on this site, we got a lot of junk posts in the form of advertising or SPAM and often people from out in the world just posting crap. I was forever maintaining it. Most of that went away when I changed to decent forum software.
Today, this website gets two or three account registrations a week that are not from people really interested in Civil War history or the State of Maine for that matter. Much of it is of a sexual nature. I now manually approve all new accounts to this site. It slows down real people joining us but I have no choice.
There is a lot of wacky people out there. At least we can be wacky in our own way without their wackiness! :)
And of course plenty of community mud has been thrown around here in the past. I'm glad that doesn't happen anymore! Sometimes, change is good!
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Michael Johnson
Half Kidding
Nothing to defuse, I was only half kidding with the post. Some wounds never heal but at least they aren't festering. Just by chance I came across the very topic in my records has I was cleaning things out and reorganizing. Rod and I discussed the topic in detail back then and we took care of business on both ends. So the issue is resting and best be forgotten and never mentioned as those were very dark times indeed. A guest book probably would not be so bad now....
Otherwise thinks are hunky dory!
Will
Well that good to hear, but
Well that good to hear, but I will always move to diffuse in a situation that could get murky.better a pinch of sugar now than a pound of crap later! lets keep a good six feet of earth on top of that hatchet.....
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum
Sandbox
Always glad to hear when everyone can play nicely in the Sandbox!