EFM Blog

I don’t know if you wonder or not, but I do, so the other day I took some time to look at the statistics that are kept by a couple of web analysis programs.

In October we had a total of 10,747 hits.  That’s about half of the peak activity we had last January, but is higher than the average of the last nine months or so of last year, according to an 18-month graph produced by one program.

In general, right now the largest numbers of hits are going to:
– radio programs
– Missionary Herald
– prayer page

One category is called Top Ten URLs by Kilobytes (I assume the number of kilobytes downloaded).  Those are easily dominated by the radio programs, since the files are fairly large; but interestingly enough, there were enough hits on the third edition of Alianza Hispana that it ranked about in the middle of the top ten.

By the way, we’re reducing the size of the radio files so that they can be downloaded more quickly.  At least on a computer or MP3 player, the smaller files still seem to have good sound quality.

What time of day do people come looking?  The most popular hours in October were:  8:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm, 1:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00am, and 3:00pm.  We must not have a lot of morning people in our camp!

What days of the week are most popular for coming to us?  During weeks 1,2, and 4 of October, Monday and Tuesday were easily the busiest days.  In the third week it shifted slightly to Tuesday and Wednesday.

From what countries are people coming to visit?  The top five, not counting the good ol’ USA, are:  Guatemala (177 hits), Thailand (59), Switzerland (51), Brazil (46), and Mexico (43).  Four other nations of interest are China (18), Lithuania (13), Peru (6), and Bolivia (3).

Mexico led the way with the highest volume of downloads.  Lithuania is interesting because we have received three or four donations from someone there via PayPal on the website.  Guatemala and Bolivia are two of our mission fields.