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Click here for a new combined statistics and press page November 2003 Highest Yet For Visitor Numbers Hits 5,757.954 Visitors 119,307 Daily Average Hits 191,930 Visitors 3975 Yet again the daily average of visitors has grown in November. Last month the average was 3879 and a year ago it was 3081. The highest ever monthly total was in May 2002 at 120830 - daily average3897 (May was a 31 day month). Figures for November 2001 show a daily average of 1793. Accordingly this month November 2003 is the highest visitor month to date on Caithness.org Message boards and chat continue to be extremely popular and visitors from round the world arrive regularly on the site October 2003 The Upward Trend Continues Hits 6,038,820 Visitors 119,285 Daily Average Hits 194,805 Visitors 3,879 The general trend in visitor numbers is still up and October recorded the second highest visitor numbers and the highest for the past five months. Comparing with September (a 30 day month) the numbers are still up as the daily average was also passed. Compared to a year ago October 2002 had 27,044 more visitors than October 2002 - a 29.3% increase. The increase in the last two years is 92.8%. A range of upgrades are being developed and the first of these is being tested on the front page now. The what's On has worked well but Niall has been working on a number of ways to make it much better, faster to use and open up the possibility to add "What's On Today" events to various places on the site - the first of which is on the front page now under test. Contributors to the What's On will se their events arriving in the section mach faster than previously with some events appearing within minutes and most no longer than eight hours from submission. The What's On Calendar becomes more useful as more people use it not just for people looking to see what is coming up or on that day but also allows for a central place for people putting on events to see what else is happening on a particular date. Pictures continue to be popular and comments are coming in about the photographs of some of our neighbouring counties being added to the site. Although this is unlikely to be as big as our Caithness pictures we will continue to add more of places we happen to be in from time to time. Further developments on how the photographs are handled on the site are also under review. The business indexes are also increasingly being used and this area also will be undergoing some changes in the next few months. Meantime thanks for looking in on Caithness.org September 2003 Visitors Well Up On Last Two Months Hits 6,308,287 Visitors 114,955 Daily Average Hits 210,275 Visitors 3831 Last 12 months Hits 58 million Visitors 1.2 million Not the highest month for visitor numbers but extremely good and missing the second spot by just two visitors. But by comparison it is one of the best ever as September is a 30 day month compared to July and August. Adding another one average day would have made the visitor rate 118,786 for comparisons with July and August both 31 day months. If these trends continue Caithness .org will pass the 75 million hits for a 12 month period over the next year with visitor numbers possibly reaching in excess of 1.4 million. It seems likely that these figures will be conservative as they are based on previous records which over the past three years have always been exceeded as the numbers of people on the Internet both locally and worldwide continues to grow. However it turns out thanks to all of you who continue to support Caithness.org August 2003 Hits 6.830,531 Visitors 103,767 Caithness.org is now well into over a million visitors a year with the monthly rate now in excess of 100,000 each month. Thanks again to everyone for looking in from over 100 countries every month......... July 2003 Hit Rate Breaks New Records Hits 6,954,041 Visitors 107,751 Daily Average Hits 254,123 Visitors 3474 Numbers really began to surge on Sunday 27th following the Halkirk Highland Games and Wick Gala. Three days over 300,000 hits and Monday the 28th recording well in excess of half a million hits on one day. Traffic is remaining well above average as more folk pour through Halkirk Games and Wick Gala photos. Current averages would place the visitor rate at 1.3 million per year based on the current stats. All such projections in the past have been serious underestimates as traffic has continued to grow almost every month. June 2003 Traffic Dips - But June Was Still Second Highest Ever Month Hits 5,233,303 Visitors 114,957 12 months to 30 June 2003 Hits 51,960,500 Visitors 1,068,939 May 2003 Highest Visitor Number Ever In One Month Hits 5,081,272 Visitors 120,830 11 Month figure smashes through the million barrier - 11 months 1,048,178 visitors April 2003 Server problems March 2003 Business Page Increase Helps Lift Numbers Hits 5,002,112 Pages 1,245,916 Visitors 105,074 Daily Average Hits 161,358 Pages 40,190 Visitors 3,388 Total Since June 2002 Hits 47,565,481 Pages 12,816,842 Visitors 896,880 Visitors numbers again passed the 100,000 mark in March and hit rate again over 5m. The Message Board continues to get busier with the Iraq war sparing off the fastest ever growth rate for any topic whilst the classified ads section goes from strength to strength with more items being advertised all the time. The Business Pages showed another month of increased usage with as usual the Property Pages being one of the most popular sections. Castles still figure high in the search words used to come to the site. Tessallations and Fractions for Kids. Top search words are Caithness and Caithness.org. February 2003 Second Highest Month Ever For Visitors Hits 4,405,855 Pages 1,169,507 Visitors 96,720 Daily Average Hits 157,351 Pages 41,768, Visitors 3,454 Totals since June 2002 Hits 40,737,699 Pages 11,575,200 Visitors 761,794 A slight fall off from record breaking January but still February came in at the second highest ever visitor numbers. The Message boards continue to grow in popularity with the Iraq topic becoming one of the fastest growing topics on the boards and Items for Sale keeping up the pace especially in cars and computer related equipment. Castles in the main section and Accommodation list now coming back on stream as folk begin to plan their holidays in the Highlands. It is looking increasingly likely that Caithness.org will have over one million visitors, 15 million page views and 52 million hits in the 12 months to the end of May 2003. January 2003 January Surge In Visitor Numbers Is The Biggest Yet Hits 5,034,888 Pages 1,383,793 Visitors 108,256 Daily Average Hits 162,415 Pages 44,638 Visits 3,491 Totals since June 2002 Hits 36,331,840 Pages 10,405,693 Visitors 695,074 These stats are only for Caithness.org. For advertisers all the other sites such as Sutherland and small local web sites stats have to be added to the above figures as the banners circulate on many of our other web sites. Banner show stats are available for advertisers. The Message board is increasingly poplar and the classified ads which are FREE are gaining ground every month. December 2002 Hits 4,614,273 Pages 1,255,315 Visitors 89,972 Daily Average Hits 148,846 Pages 40,493 Visitors 3049 A slightly quieter month dropping off over the Christmas holidays period. November 2002 Still Heading Up As Biggest Ever Numbers Recorded In One Month. Hits 5,277,708 Pages 1,538,359 Visitors 92,461 Daily Average Hits 174,923 Pages 51,278 Visitors 3081 Last Six Months Hits 26,679,878 Pages 7,764,656 Visitors 494,158 Even with the techy changes being introduced on many sections of the web site the increase in page views has pushed up the hit rate to beyond 5 million for the first time. We continue to introduce the new changes on many of the older pages as we have time but its a big job. Significant amounts of band width have been clawed back as we try to deal with the continual increase in our traffic. If visitor numbers remain at the present level we are looking at over one million visitors a year now. Page views on current levels will take us into 18 million per year. From an advertisers view point this puts the web site in a very good position. In addition to the pages on the main sites the page views from all the local web sites that carry our advertising have to be added to the above figures. The Caithness Business section has again had increasing numbers of visitors and the Sutherland Business Index will over time catch up as we add more businesses. The Message board and in particular the Items for Sale section continue to be popular. Pictures generally attract large numbers of people and the castle section is still one of the most visited from search engine requests. October 2002 Visitor Numbers Up Again Hits 4,642,434 Pages 1,365,767 Visitors 92,241 Daily Average Hits 149,755 Pages 44,056 Visitors 2,974 Visitor numbers continued to rise and the page views follow a similar pattern. The hit rate would have soared had it not been for a number of technical alterations to the way certain items are displayed. Changes to the headers and the gradual spread of the new photo galleries had a marked effect in reducing the traffic and the it rate over the month. Hit rates on web sites do not tell the whole story and we are trying wherever possible to reduce this. The traffic from the web site has been reduced considerably but the effect is on the way the information is delivered and we are squeezing more out of what we have. Without the unseen techy changes our hit rate would have soared past the 5 million. It is a year since Caithness.org won the Yell.com award for best community web site and the growth has been amazing. A quick look back to October 2001 shows - Hits 2,480,741 Pages 366,998 Visitors 61,852 Perhaps the most amazing is the page views up by almost a million a month. September 2002 Visitor Numbers Surge Hits 4,516,336 Pages 1,293,948 Visitors 85,568 Daily Average - Hits 150,5445 Pages 43,131 Visitors 2852 Visitor numbers were up again with a rise of 8.5% over August. The average daily hit rate was up whilst the page views were down by 200 per day to 43,131 probably due to the fall of in viewing the gala pictures that were heavily used in July and August. Visitor numbers are up 38% from August 2001 August 2002 It Was The Biggest Yet Hits 4,681,119 Pages 1,374,266 Visitors 81,470 Daily Average Hits 149,068 Pages 44,331 Visitors 2628 The last three months have seen the records broken again and again so all we can say is thanks to you all for looking in. With 12 million hits from 200,000 visitors looking 3.5million pages in 3 months we can safely say already that 2002 is leaving 2001 way behind. We are seriously looking at how we cope with this increasing demand. August 2002 so Far 13 August 2002 Looks Like a Big One With 12 days gone in August the numbers are stacking up for a record breaking month - we will just have to wait and see.... The 12 days numbers are - Hits 2,070, 787 - Pages 630,654 - Visitors 31,613 7 august 2002 Records Smashed At Caithness.org with 1,079,747 Hits In 6 Days Another record was reached yesterday as the visitors to the web site took the hit rate through the one million barrier in less than a week. 16,415 visitors in six days have looked at 318,507 pages. Thurso Gala pictures helped take the totals to new heights as people from round the globe have clicked through the floats and emailed us about the meaning of the burning boat. Answers to the Message Board................thanks to everyone for looking in. July 2002 Hits 4,110,202 Pages 1,175,139 Visitors 75,981 As in previous years the Wick Gala has helped to increase the visitor numbers coming back to the web site. Message Boards and chat rooms remain very popular. The castles section is also still one of the main routes into the web site from the search engines. More accurate counting now means we have a better idea of how many ads are being shown - a significant help for advertisers. May - June 2002 Due to changes of server, new counting methods and lost days we have not published the stats for these months. April 2002 Hits 3,734,972 Pages 318,524 Visitors 83,150 Average Daily Visitors 2771 April hits and visitors up again in a shorter month. Page views were down. Of course April was one day shorter and if the average daily rates were shown there is still a rise and based on a 31 day month the figures would be - Hits 3,859,479 Pages 329,141 Visitors 85,921 2002 Totals so Far Hits 12,953,285 Pages 1,416,997 Visitors 305,360 March 2002 Hits 3,644,130, Pages 331,848, Visitors 81,445 The rise in visitors has continued and is way above previous months. The visitors for March 2001 were 45,116 showing a huge increase over 12 months. Page views are down and perhaps the Easter Weekend has contributed to that as lots of people are away on holiday. But over all the figures are quite amazing to us. We have now extended our package as we over ran our traffic allowance again. Banner ads shown are much higher as the above stats do not include all of the smaller web sites in the banner circulation system. February 2002 Hits 2,924,065, Pages 373,287 Visitors 67,886 Yes this was the biggest month yet...again and we thank our many visitors for coming back. Although it may not look like it right away remember that February only has 28 days. The daily average visitor numbers to Caithness.org rose by 5.4% over January and in the Business Pages by a whopping 11.9%. The equivalent for a 31 day month to compare with January would have been - Hits 3,237,330, Pages 413,261, Visitors 75,113 Current projections on this level would give us over 900,000 visitors looking at over 5,000,000 pages with a hit rate of 36 million plus for 2002 - only time will tell January 2002 Hits 2,650118, Pages 393,338 Visitors 70,108 Biggest month yet on the web sites. Did something happen in January. Visitor numbers smashed the last highest visitor total last August. Hit rates and page views numbers were also the highest ever. the biggest increases recently have been seen in the Business Pages. We reckon a lot of people got computers for Christmas and have logged on to Caithness.org for the first time in the last few weeks. The castles section in particular has growing traffic. But with a daily average visitor rate of 2261 January has easily broken all records for the site. With page views now reaching record levels it means that advertiser can be sure the banner ads are being seen by wide audience. In addition to the 393,338 pages on the main sites however the banners are also circulating on most of the business web sites we have built as well as the increasingly well known Maxx Blade web site. The combined page views in January are well over 400,000. We are building a site map to assist with finding items on the site. We are also considering changes to the community pages and a new indexing system is a certainty. It will not happen overnight and any new navigation bars will be introduced over a period of time as the new navigation bar is currently doing in the other sections.
2001 Totals Hits 18,119,285 Pages 3,353,023 Visitors 58,576 2001 was certainly the year when the world found Caithness.org. We have watch somewhat astounded as the stats doubled and tripled. The hit rate is quadrupled from a year ago. These stats are somewhat lower than actual as the September ones were mainly lost and various odd days lost throughout the year at the server. We have calculated a rough figure for September and made it on the low side and not bothered at all about all the lost days. We are gobsmacked to have reached these figures. Thanks to all the people who have helped and who have looked in over the year. Lots of folk send us pictures to share with others and undoubtedly the School Days pictures have been very popular and this will continue to grow as more come in. We are still adding to the pictures on the site and hope to make them even more comprehensive in the coming year. Its hard to know where to start with which section is popular but the Castle section certainly deserves a mention. Andrew Spratt's reconstructions have formed the basis of what in some places would be a whole web site in itself. Robert Richmond is making a huge contribution in drawing area plans, writing up notes for the sections and providing photographs as well as ground plans for many of the castles. Message Boards and chat rooms are very popular. So on to 2002 and new things are under construction even as this is being written.
December 2001 Hits 2,372,004 Pages 375,968 Visitors 52,877 The final month of 2001 saw page views just tip the scales to break the records for a month. The hit rate is second only to October the month we won the Yell.com awards. Page views are only second to august when the Gala pictures were in full flow. Not included in these stats are the figures for all of the other web sites we have been building and where the Caithness banners run. Combined page views for all of these sites are now excess of 400,000 for December. We have decided to get rid of banners from outside advertisers for the present. We will concentrate mainly on local banners. We are unhappy about the gambling ads that have begun to appear and as we have no control over that we will shortly rewrite our coding to remove them from the loop
November 2001 Had To Happen. Hits 2,328,119 Pages 334,385 Visitors 53,792 Well it finally happened. Visitor numbers were down on our previous record breaking months and especially October where we won the Yell.com awards . But the figures are still truly amazing. Only August to October had higher visitor numbers and only since August have the page views been higher than November. The Early Christmas pictures for December area already pushing the numbers up again. A new menu bar is being worked on to make navigation easier and eventually it will appear throughout the site. With easier navigation the chances are everyone will find more things to look at and read. The Newsletter from Caithness.org continues to increase almost every day and many of the replies we receive indicate that the newsletter readers regularly come to see what is happening in Caithness. The mix of news and pictures and what is on in the county seems to be fine and feedback suggests that a bigger spread yet of material would prove popular. More people are suggesting topics and offering material for the web site and this is fine as it opens up the opportunities and if presented by email can be on the web site very fast. The Caithness business Pages maintain their growth as more businesses notify to get their free page. It is hoped that more people in the farming community will take up the opportunity to be listed as until now very few have used the pages. We are encouraging more of them to get listed as they often have other parts to the business like machinery hire or sub contracting.
October 2001 Hits 2,480,741 Pages 366,998 Visitors 61,852 Hits are well up the and pages and visitors almost the same as our highest ever in August. The message boards and chat rooms are proving more popular than ever. Banner ad coding is still being added to the site and a new deal with another web company means that ads for bigger national brands will begin to appear on the web sites. Photographs remain a popular feature of the site and with new camera equipment better quality pictures will be increasingly seen on the site. An increasing range of topics is still being added to the web site and in particular more sections will be seen over coming weeks to accommodate subjects like palaentology and other topics reflecting the diversity of the material still being added from the Caithness Field Club Bulletins. The links section continues to expand and is increasingly being used by people researching many topics. The new sports section is well under way and more of the original material will be added over coming weeks. The Yell.com awards for best community site and best overall resulted in the highest ever day on the web site in October. 3340 visitors looking at 16903 pages and hits of 139,880 on 4 October. Widespread press and TV/Radio coverage has probably given Caithness.org the biggest boost it will get this year.
September 2001 Site stats lost at server.
August 2001 No end in site to the upward trend on our web pages Hits 2,089,123 Pages 375,966 Visitors 61,928 - yes these are for one month only!!!! There are now so many popular sections on the site its difficult to pick out the best but chat rooms and message boards continue to attract a lot of attention. Pictures remain popular and the castle section is growing as it builds. The quiz nights on the chat rooms are gaining in popularity. The Gala pictures still attracting a lot of attention even though the weeks are rolling by. General information on the front page and the archives are popular. The bed and breakfast sections and hotels are getting increasingly used to find places to stay. Email suggests many more people are researching their trips to the county via our pages. Property can now be sorted by date price or location with one button and this will make it easy for prospective buyers or the casual surfer. We have been short listed in the Yell.com awards and this will almost certainly increase our visitors for the next few weeks. The web site is featured in another publication in August and this will bring additional attention. Meanwhile we have leaflets being given out at the Pleasanton Highland Games in California by some of our supporters. Many thanks to them and to you all for looking in. There are now over 7000 pictures on the web site on 12,000 pages.
July 2001 On and On with no end in site to the increasing interest in Caithness web sites. Hits 1,802,937 Pages 304,454 Visitors 53,047 Changes in the method of counting numbers (is there more than one way? -I hear you say) made us think we might reduce the figures but increased traffic has shoved that aside. Still more new visitors are finding the site as proved by our email and the message boards. Most popular places are the chat rooms and message boards. But the Business Pages are expanding rapidly with the property section pages the most used in that section. Pictures as ever gain an increasing audience with Wick Gala pictures recording our highest ever daily visitor numbers. The castles are proving popular and this section has a long way to go. New business web sites are also gaining traffic as we highlight them on three web sites now - Caithness.org, Caithness Business Pages and Scorrie Internet Services as well as in the Free Business Pages - with our aim to drive more traffic to local businesses. The chat room has proved to be so popular that there is now even a Quiz once week with its own chat room. It takes place on Thursday Evenings.
June 2001 Ever Upwards - Even with a change in the stats counting method that generally reduced the count we have still passed May Hits 1,651,620 Pages 253,005 With an ever increasing numbers of people finding Caithness.org it seems the upward rise is going to continue. The castle section is continuing to attract interest and still has a long way to go. The aerial pictures of various parts have been popular and we are already into Gala season. Total hits since last 12 August when we moved to our new server are 8,190,390 which for less than a year is pretty fantastic.
May 2001 Another Record Breaker Hits 1,324,188 Pages 232,155 Visits 52,132 With visitor numbers up nearly 4000 since last month to 52,132 we are still waiting on things to level off. But as the records keep getting broken it seems we may have awhile to wait. Page views were down but the addition of pictures in the Business Pages looks as if even that trend will once again be up in June. With a couple of days of adding the pictures the Business Pages traffic began to climb significantly. The property section is growing and as more people find out about it are checking it regularly. The significant factor in May was that we became a business and are running the whole set up under Scorrie Internet Services. No great fanfares and we have not even had time to build a Scorrie Web site as we have too many other orders for web sites to be linked to Caithness.org and The Caithness Business Pages. Demand for banner ads is increasing and significant numbers of them will be appearing on the sites shortly. It is the intention that Scorrie Internet Services will carry out all of the same free services to the voluntary sector and business as before. Offering a FREE page to businesses and Even more sections to the non-profit sector. So thanks for looking in in May. June sees us try out election chat rooms with the candidates. Let you know next month how it went
April 2001 Still on the Increase - combined totals Hits 1,146,403 Pages 241,444 Visits 48,156 An increase of over 3000 visits even with the loss of half a days stats when the server counter was off on 1 April. Visitors from 79 countries were the highest ever. This figure probably hides even more countries as many are listed under dotcoms. The new sections for property sales and jobs headed straight to the top of the listings in the Business Pages. The Message Boards and chat Rooms still head the listings on the main section after the front page. The Caithness.org site is rapidly heading for 10,000 pages and over 3000 pictures. Ray Elf a professional cartoonist and artist has joined the team and his new section will have cartoons on various themes and the occasional wry look at "Caithness From Elf". A great many new photographs of the county are currently hitting the web site from Robert Richmond following his trip in early April. Robert is helping us fill many gaps in areas not yet visited and his interest in castles will soon be reflected in a new series on Caithness Castles commencing in the next few weeks. The section will be enhanced greatly with the addition of pictures of reconstructions of the Caithness Castles by Andrew Spratt currently the curator of Dirleton Castle.
March 2001 www.caithness.org www.caithness-business.co.uk Combined Totals....................... Hits 1,127,273 Pages 245,540 Visits 45,116 Whilst pictures continue to attract people the Message Boards and Chat Rooms are increasingly on the top of everyone's list for checking. Visitors from other countries was yet again the highest ever at 77 countries. We are now averaging a visit every minute of every day 24 hours a day. The Business Pages now on a separate web site also show rapid growth as the place to find contact information on local businesses.
February 2001 Hits 755,708 Pages 169675 Visits 30119 in February ( which is 3 days less than January) Even in a short month visitors broke all records on Caithness.org yet again. In 6 months from last September traffic has multiplied at an ever increasing rate. Even with the move of the Business Pages (February is the first full month with them at their new home the figures have still beaten all previous ones. We now have separate records for Caithness Business Pages and may start publishing them later on that site. If they were included the totals are even higher. Visitors from overseas held up at 61 countries. The Message board now renewed and with new sections is increasingly popular and was a leading set of pages in February. This trend looks set to continue. Pictures in many categories received masses of hits.
January 2001 626,166 Hits 24,481 Individual Visits 130,410 Pages Viewed Well this has been the biggest increase in traffic yet. Yet another record breaking month on the site. An overall visitor increase of over 41% means we have no idea where it will go. Everything is up visitors, page views as well as the overall hit rate. Increasing numbers of people are logging on from around the world from 63 countries this month. Our email enquiries and contacts continue to grow in many areas with requests for information and thanks for pictures you have found on the site. We have taken note of the traffic and Pictures in the 2000 and 2001 sections still are very popular. We are increasing the range of pictures on specific topics and doing the subject in depth such as the Olrig house one if we have time. Improvements in Educational Courses and several new sections such as Pass It On. We will launch a series of new web sites in coming months so hold on to your hat. The Postcards have proved very popular and an upgrade was even more popular. We had a problem and are taking the opportunity to quadruple the number of postcards available. The Message Board continues to grow and that also had a problem so we also doing a major upgrade on that to bring in new sections. Thanks to all our surfers from Caithness.org
December 2000 This was the first month when the Business Pages were located on a new site. The Business Pages now have their own separate statistics. The combined traffic total is the highest we have yet recorded. The slight dip of 250 is accounted for by Christmas Day when we had our lowest visitor numbers for a long time. Think most people had lots to do that day. Visitors from 63 countries beat last months 54 countries showing word is spreading. Hits and Pages were the highest yet even without the Business Pages being included. Pictures remain very popular with the Walk Around Scrabster getting the most looks. Free Educational Courses in our growing Links section remains one of the most popular pages. The new Family History section looks certain to attract a growing number of visitors although our aim is to show what can be done with local resources rather than to be a comprehensive genealogy site. The Miller entries have already created lots of interest around the world.
November 2000 saw another rise in the regular visitors to Caithness.org. Once again the combination of pictures and local information sprinkled with small amounts of news seems to be proving a popular mix. There is demand for more local news items but this is not possible given the demands on volunteers time. Possibly if the site ever employs someone this would be a possibility. Traffic from overseas continues to expand (54 countries in November) This trend looks set to go on for some time as ever more people are spreading the word on the site. The Message Board is growing in popularity and consideration is still being given on how to handle items for sale if this were to be something local people would like. Visitors from 50 countries was the highest yet.
October 2000 continued the upward trend in visitors to Caithness.org The figures are lower than they should be as nearly two days stats were lost due to a failure of the stats counter at our service provider.
September 2000 saw the increases in Caithness.org surfers continue. Pictures continue to be very popular. However many sections have an increasing readership. The Business section is now being used regularly and Caithness.org continues to add businesses weekly with a view to reaching the goal of an entry for every business in the county with its own individual page. This combined with the comprehensive coverage of the voluntary, not for profit and other sectors will shortly make it the most comprehensive guide to Caithness on the web. Already quoted in hundreds off sites and search engines around the world the team continues to increase contacts in many areas both in the UK and abroad. With negotiations currently underway for links in other countries the scope of Caithness.org will continue to expand.
Earlier months saw continual steady growth over 18 months from 50 visits a week to 50 a day and then on up until July 2000 when things really started moving.