BlogStats

Phil installed a counter around January 2nd.in addition I’ve been counting other aspects of blog participation. I wanted to share some details with you that I find interesting:

First, I’m very proud that when one utilizes the world’s largest search engine – Google – and enters simply 340 Club the number one hit that is returned is the 340 Club, Lancaster, PA. Thus, without patent, exclusive rights, fanfare, publicity in the world when you say 340 Club you mean our 340 Club and believe me there are others. Entering the words 340 Club brings up 1,140,000 hits and of those we are the most relevant!

Second, this is the 138th post placed here by 340 Club residents registered with Blogspot. Here is a summary of who have posted:

Tee 102
Phil 29
Sil 7
Dan 0

In addition, posting capability has been offered to Tim, Tim, RE, John/Sue. Soon we will be expanding posting capability to all who seek it (are you listening JJ?, Lefty?). In the interest of full disclosure, all invited posters have contributed with memories or even pictures sent to Phil or I and included herein. However, I would like to see more participation. I realize unlike me and Phil most people have a life outside of the virtual club but it still would be nice to read others posts.

As it stands now anyone can leave a comment. Sadly Mike Hauck is the only reader who has left a comment other than resident posters Tee, Phil, and Sil. We need to know that the blog is being read; let us know you are out there. To leave a comment simply click on the place that says 0 comments or 1 comments or whatever it says.

Now, to the counter.

Total visitors 720
Actual 620 (1/2-2/2)
Additional estimated 100 (12/4-1/2)

Right off the top I estimate that my “visits” represent 40%. Phil has set it up so that his visits are not counted. So right off the top I lope off 288 leaving 332 visits. Of the total 8% are from out of the country and by and large are unknown surfers or worse. That leaves 305. Now, while it is labeled as visitors it more closely represents visits. The question then becomes how many visitors (i.e. readers) the blog has on a regular basis. I do not have that answer but I suspect there might be a dozen counting the three posters that stop by daily and another dozen that visit on a weekly basis.

Okay, so who are the other visitors? Well, they are folks out there surfing on the net using Google or Yahoo or whatever. Here is a list of the most recent folks visiting the virtual club who were surfing the net looking for stuff. The list depicts the stuff they were looking for and where 340 Club ranked out of the thousands of hits a particular topic might have engendered. For example, one person was looking for “leslie west mountain”. The list of hits he was referred to found the 340 Club as the 6th most relevant site. The only reason we know of his search is because he was sufficiently moved by the snippet description that he entered the site. Here is the list:

SEARCH REFERRALS FOR VIRTUAL 340 RANK
Tim Getzloff 1
Rudy Valentino Rochester NY 1
The old neighborhood 1
gene gene the dancing machine 1
englebet humperdink 2
sss club basketball 2
Woody Kleinhaus 2
bonnie parker death pics. 3
jason 340 3
Lauzus 3
Cassidy's Tavern 3
virtual visiting hours. blog spot. Com 4
mary hartman mary hartman + blogspot.com 4
“The Magnificent Men” 4
Sil Simpson 5
leslie west mountain 6
1975 olympic 340 6
“Jon Schmidt” 6
lancaster pa pub crawls 7
Archaeological 13
Bonnie Parker Band 20
Bonnie Parker Band 25
“Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels” 27
Gene the dancing 41
"west point" 50+
the passion club 50+

by category
Musical Groups 8
Bonnie Parker 4
Lancaster’s Pubs 3
The Gong Show 2
340 members 3

Of the 720 visitors, here are the domains from which they came:
AOL 34%
State.pa.us 18%
Verizon.net 10%
Comcast.net 10%
IP address 6%
18 Others < 5%

92% came from the U.S. with the following countries, in order, making up the remainder: Italy, India, UK, Spain, Germany, Columbia, Canada, Australia 1%

That’s all … more can be culled, such as length of visit but I shall leave that for another post.