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About the SRCMBC Web Site
How many people view the site?
To be honest, we don't know! What we do know is how many "unique visits" we get. A "unique visit" is defined as a user viewing at least 2 pages of the site within a 30 minute interval. The graph shows how our monthly visits total has changed since the "official launch" of the site at the start of July 2008 (click on it for a larger view). At present we are having over 6000 visits per month.
More detail is given in the Table below. In October 2008 we started to transfer the movies to YouTube to avoid the Club having to pay extra costs for excess "bandwidth" (i.e. users downloading information). Some of the movies were very popular so that probably explains the apparent decrease in visits to our site in November and December. Visits to our YouTube channel are not counted in the statistics we present here.
| Month | Visits | Unique Visits per day | ||
| Average | Minimum | Maximum | ||
| July | 1422 | 46 | 17 | 184 |
| August | 2823 | 91 | 27 | 316 |
| September | 5185 | 173 | 56 | 433 |
| October | 7432 | 240 | 131 | 480 |
| November | 6350 | 212 | 104 | 476 |
| December | 6475 | 209 | 120 | 363 |
Where were these people situated?
Again, in general we don't know! For some users we can identify their Internet Service Provider (ISP). If their ISP is, for example, "something.co.uk" then it's a good bet that they are in the UK. However if their ISP is "something.com" they could be anywhere! As a result, out of 30059 visits during 2008, we can only identify the country for 2598 of them. Thus we only know about less than 1 in 11 visits.A particular case is the USA, which does not have "something.us" addresses, and from where we only appear to have had a a small number of views from US specific addresses. However there were 910 visits from users using "aol.com" which was the pioneering ISP in the States, where it is known as "America On Line". Almost certainly a good proportion of those aol views were from the USA. If you are viewing from the US tell us!
Another case is Africa where until recently we seemed to have had no hits, now we have had a couple. OK, so model boats in the Sahara may be a bad choice... but surely in South Africa? Checking on Google it appears that many of their sites fall in the ".com" category. The same may be true for other African countries. If you are viewing from Africa tell us!
However, it's interesting to see where the few that we can identify came from, we've marked them on the map below. Click on the map and hold the mouse button down, and you can drag the map around to see different regions of the world, then click on the markers to see the country name and the number of identified users. Remember that the true number is certainly a lot bigger than what is shown and there will have been visits from countries not marked. As time goes on, we will update the map to show the geographical spread of our viewers (at least those that we can identify).