BLOG site visitors over the last 2 months

While this BLOG site has been operational since mid-February, I was interested to know if sufficient momentum had been generated by the BLOG site to justify an ongoing investment of time and energy into maintaining the site. When Rick & Michelle began searching for DDYT members, they found most had 'spread their wings' moving not only to the far reaches of Australia but also the world. Today there are DDYTers in Asia, Europe and the Americas. We had hoped that the BLOG site could help overcome the tyranny of distance by providing a common forum for the dissemination of information and for members to share life stories with the group.

To help evaluate the effectiveness of this medium, 2 months ago I set up some web monitoring to provide broad statistical information (ie number of visitors; OS used; browsers used; pages viewed; active browsing time; visitors region etc). The feedback indicated that the BLOG site was being regularly accessed and therefore was a worthwhile exercise to maintain the site in the lead-up to the reunion.

One of the statistics that intrigued me was the number of 'unique visitors' and the number of countries that visitors haled from. Clearly there are others outside our circle (inclusive of our family & friends) that have had a passing interest in the DDYT experience.

For those of you that are interested, I have gathered a list of the countries of origin for visitors to our BLOG site. Visitors to the BLOG site have come from 44 different countries or territories. Since I have been maintaining the site, the monitoring was setup to exclude me from the statistics to prevent any distortions.

Below is the list of countries or territories provided in descending order by the total number of visits per country/territory over the last 2 months:

Australia (highest number of visits - 640 visits)
United States
Indonesia
India
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Portugal
Spain
Singapore
Malaysia
France
Turkey
Italy
Brazil
Sweden
Hong Kong (highest average time per vist of 19:49 mins/visit)
Belgium
Romania
Chile
Thailand
Taiwan
Vietnam
Austria
Ireland
Pakistan
Greece
Netherlands
Laos (highest average number of pages/visit - 10.0 pages/visit)
Argentina
Japan
Iran
Ukraine
Finland
Ecuador
Kuwait
Mexico
Palestinian Territory
Reunion
Kazakhstan
Algeria
Tanzania
Peru
Panama

Over the next few weeks I will change the visitor's time clock to reflect the time for each city that a visitor has haled from.