Summary of all traffic
to wallace-id.com
2002 through 2008
- Total Page Views Analyzed
- 2008 — 584,496
- 2002 — 235,003
- 149% increase in pages viewed
- Average Page Views per Day
- 2008 — 1,480
- 2002 — 644
- 130% increase in pages viewed/day
- Average Homepage Views per Day
- 2008 — 226
- 2002 — 109
- 107% increase in homepage viewed/day
- Average Number of People per Month
- 2008 — 12,230
- 2002 — 4,049
- 202% increase in people/month
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Four Season Mountain Recreation
is a big theme at wallace-id.com.
A chart of the interest in each of four areas is
shown below.
- Lookout Pass Ski Area
- January 2008 — 189 page views/day
- January 2002 — 42 page views/day
- 350% increase in page views/day
- Silver Mountain Ski Area
- January 2008 — 105 page views/day
- January 2002 — 53 page views/day
- 98% increase in page views/day
- Route of the Hiawatha
- July 2008 — 321 page views/day
- July 2002 — 176 page views/day
- 82% increase in page views/day
- Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
- July 2008 — 103 page views/day
- July 2003 — 69 page views/day
- 49% increase in page views/day
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Page Views and Human Visitors, 2002-2008
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Each month, the total number of recorded page views is first adjusted to remove
the retrieval of the snowfall log inline frame associated with the homepage.
These adjusted page views are plotted to the left,
along with the calculated human population
that these page views represent. To get this number, requests made by
robot operating systems are subtracted, and the remaining page views are divided
by the average number of pages requested per visit for that month.
84 month averages (± standard deviation)
- robot operating system retrievals = 5.5% ± 3.2%
(range = 0.8% to 15.0%)
- pages per host (visit) = 3.78 ± 0.52
(range = 2.52 to 5.17)
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Community Service, 2002-2008
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The main reason for establishing wallace-id.com in 1998 was to provide
essential information to those people thinking about vacationing or moving here.
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Jan 2002
pages |
Dec 2008
pages |
| relocation |
3 |
18 |
| festivals |
3 |
26 |
| maps/aerial photos |
16 |
19 |
| history |
12 |
14 |
| general recreation |
12 |
25 |
| local businesses |
19 |
33 |
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Recreation Promotion, 2002-2008
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I moved here in 1993 because
Lookout
Pass and
Silver
Mountain ski areas
are a dozen Interstate miles east and west of Wallace. When the
Route
of the Hiawatha mountain bike trail was created as a result of efforts by
the Taft Tunnel Preservation Society in 1999, I added this attraction as
my third recreational websuite. In 2003, as the 72-mile
Trail
of the Coeur d'Alenes paved bike trail was nearing completion,
I added this fourth
websuite to wallace-id.com.
This became the prototype for the large
Friends of the Coeur d'Alene Trails website
that promotes ALL bicycle venues in the region.
The general recreation curve
includes eight years of
snowfall logs and commentary that tie the two complementary Silver Valley
ski areas together, in competition with the other three ski areas
available to folks in Spokane.
In December 2008, these eight snow logs were consulted 42¼ times a day,
in spite of the late start of the season.
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Top Three Pages, 2002-2008
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Interest in local weather and business has remained rather constant over the
years and may reflect a saturated local audience. The
weather page naturally gets
the most attention during winter, while the summer months see the most traffic
through the business page. On the other hand,
the homepage reflects a growing interest in our town
beginning in the summer of 2004, with spiking due
to the mention of Wallace in other media.
84 month averages (± standard deviation) and totals
- homepage = 170 ± 56 page views/day
(range 81 to 312)
434,064 total views (14.8% of all traffic)
- business = 46 ± 13 page views/day
(range 25 to 79)
118,311 total views (4.0% of all traffic)
- weather = 38 ± 17 page views/day
(range 19 to 89)
96,178 total views (3.3% of all traffic)
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Various Pages & Suites, 2002-2008
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This chart shows a variety of interest patterns.
Interest in
Lana
Turner peaked
a couple of years ago and now seems to have reached a steady state
of activity, similar to that for the
1313 Club.
It can be shown that 17% of everyone who looked at
my 1313 page in the last year
went on to visit one of four pages at
1313club.com.
Interest in my
curriculum vitae
seems to have stablized at 19 page views per day...
popularity does not seem to correlate with job offers, however.
Interest in Jim Carpenter's 11 page websuite,
Silver Valley Real Estate,
peaked in 2007 at 59 page views/day, and fell to 55 pv/day
last year as the general economy of the nation fell.
The traffic to
Independence Lead Mines
increased in a dramatic yet uneven way over the years,
until the company was finally
acquired by Hecla at the end of 2008 and the 44 page websuite
was redirected to a single file:
gone.html.
Interest in
Snow Cat Parts
is increasing in a regular and seasonal way as Pat Foster builds his
machinist business from his cabin on Dobson Pass.
Google has ranked Pat at #1 for several key words and phrases for the last five
years and this has enabled him to increase his product line substantially.
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I created wallace-id.com and
silver-valley.com
in 1998 to popularize my new
home in North Idaho as a way to mitigate the economic depression of the community
and myself. I was a scientist for seventeen years before deciding at 45 that
I had done enough chemistry, but not enough skiing. So in 1993, I ended my tour
of duty as the vagabond scientist following state-of-the-art mass spectrometers
around the world and bought a house in the mountains where I wanted to end up,
and set about to become a "computer consultant" entrepreneur.
Thank you for your time and interest in Wallace Idaho.
From January 1, 2002, through December 31, 2009,
3,717,694 successful page requests
were recorded and analyzed. As documented in the
greg4mss@hotmail.com
