Here is Hugh Brower’s
latest report on our web site:
The latest batch of website
data covers the last 22 days. The website usage ranges from 25,000 -
40,000 visitors per day. The number of page views ranges from just under
200,000 to 290,000 views per day. Hits range from just under 1 million to
a high of 1.4 million per day.
Ranked by page views, the
most visited areas of the site were: News, F&ES, Contests, W1AW, TIS,
Members Only, Catalog, FCC, Arrl Letter, VEC, Radios Online, LOTW and Awards.
Sub-sections that were
especially popular included the FCC Lookup, Soapbox areas, Club lookup, the Web
surveys, our search engine, Hamfests, Hamradio.html (Becoming a Ham), the
RSS feeds and the License Exam search.
About 2 of every 100 hits on
the site is for the main ARRLWeb page.
Around 20 - 25% of page
views are attributable to search engine robots.
The top 10 countries by
hits, were the
74% of visitors used
Internet Explorer, 14% used Firefox, 4% used Netscape, and under 2% were
Safari, Mozilla Suite, Opera and AOL browsers. About 94% of visitors were
Windows users, Mac users about 2%, and Linux about 1.5%.
Visitors who got to our site
from other sites mainly came from:
Google. Yahoo, Echolink,
HamTestOnline, MSN, Peterone.com, AC6V.com, QSL.net, DXZone.com, various Google
overseas sites, Fortunecity.com, and AA9PW.com.
Search phrases they used to
find our site included:
ARRL
ARES
Ham Radio
QST
Amateur Radio
BPL
Randy McCloy
Morse Code
LOTW
Hamfest
Suitsat
DXCC
Tornadoes
Software Defined Radio
Antenna Theory
AARL
W1AW
QEX
GPS Antenna
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Harold Kramer, WJ1B
Chief Operating Officer
ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio
860 594 0220