Our little club blog has now passed 1,500 hits in a single month - as you see (apart from a gap in the summer) every month has seen more readers than the last. By the end of today we'll have passed 9,000 overall - and presumanly 10,000 by the end of February.While we can take a reasonable guess on who around 30 of the regular readers are, this would mean that each of our team is logging on over 50 times per month... which seems unlikely as my guess is that there are more exciting websites out there. Like Nikki's for starters!
Truth is that there is a very big readership from outside the club necause only about a third of the hits are from locations registered in North Herts. The site has quite a significant "fan base" in the likes of Luton. Oxford, Watford, Abingdon, and Welwyn Garden City- in each case at least one person from these places logs in (on average) once a day!
But there is international interest too. We get at least one "hit" every day from somewhere the USA (a particular hello to Long Beach, California!) - and we've also had significant number of visitors from Canada, New Zealand, France, Japan, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, China, and South Africa.
Which all begs the question.... why? I mean we can guess why there was a sudden spike in readers from Sussex and Milton Keynes at certain times of the season, but why so many people from other towns read about our activities so often is anyone's guess. Maybe they like the writing style. Or the pictures...
Still, I wonder if any other ordinary junior sports team generates this level of interest?
The reason for the "HITS" are:
ReplyDelete1. Interesting sticky blog
2. Good pictures
3. A real good club feel, not just we are the best, but we are human.
Well done John, keep up the great work.
Dan Cottrell
Oh gosh, darn it, I'm all embarrased now...
ReplyDeleteThank you Dan!