Calling it a trimester sounds like someone is having a baby. No, my wife and I are not announcing anything 
At the beginning of May, I shared my stats from the first 4 months of the year (1/3 of the year, or the first trimester). I figured I’d do the same for the May-August period (the second trimester).
First, here are the stats as of the end of August 2008 (you can view the first trimester stats here):
Traffic
- May 2007 -4,256
- May 2008 - 13,173 (up 210%)
- Jun 2007 -4,329
- Jun 2008 - 14,044 (up 224%)
- Jul 2007 -6,413
- Jul 2008 - 14,619 (up 128%)
- Aug 2007 -6,009
- Aug 2008 - 11,460 (up 91%)
- Total traffic (unique visitors) for May - Aug 2007 - 21,007
- Total traffic (unique visitors) for May - Aug 2008 - 53,296 (up 154%)
Total Posts
- Total posts for May - Aug 2007 - 311
- Total posts for May - Aug 2008 - 397
- Month with most postings ever - 117 in July 2008
Comments (including pings & trackbacks)
- Total comments for May - Aug 2007 - 526 Comments
- Total comments for May - Aug 2008 - 619 Comments
- Total number of comments – 4,416
Top 5 commented posts
Top 5 categories
Niagara Falls Image Gallery
- Total number of pictures in Niagara Falls Image Gallery - 2,588
Link Tracking (link visiting)
- Total number of tracked links (all time) – 1,797
- Total number of click-throughs (all time) – 131,092
Top 5 clicked links
(I changed my tracking those you can’t really compare this with the previous stats)
YouTube Videos
- Total number of YouTube video views - 28 videos, 87,512 views
Top 5 YouTube Videos
Now, what does all this mean? What do the trends indicate? Traffic keeps increasing. People are leaving comments. People are viewing the videos. Overall, things are going extremely well.
I don’t have any radical plans for the blog over the winter. I am almost caught up on some old posts I need to get up. I have a few more galleries and videos to post. Having Lonny on board will help. And of course, having each of you returning regularly to see what’s going on in Niagara Falls is just as important.
Thank you once again all for your help. I’m sure the stats will drop some going into the Fall, but I’m also sure we’ll be up over last year. I look forward to seeing what the final year-end stats are!
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Overnight visitation to Niagara Falls this summer was not as nightmarish as many had forecasted, say tourism officials.
But same-day traffic to the Honeymoon Capital was a whole different story.
“Our occupancy for overnight travel was not bad, nowhere near as bad as we had braced for,” said Anna Pierce, executive director at Niagara Falls Tourism.
“But the daytrippers, those numbers were not good. There was a big decrease in the daytrip market -I’m talking double digits, about 10 per cent.”
From Niagara Frontier Publications:
The 2008 Niagara International Kite Festival will fill the skies Oct. 2-5 at various locations around Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Niagara Falls, Ontario, while swooping up the imaginations of event-goers of all ages. Last year’s festival drew more than 25,000 kite enthusiasts from around the world, and organizers are forecasting even larger attendance this year.
The festival was named one of the six best international festivals of 2008 by the London Sunday Times Travel Magazine and was recently featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
I noticed this when I was taking a picture of the new IHOP Niagara Falls. The big miniature golf course by the hotel is still there, but the Dairy Queen isn’t a Dairy Queen any more. It’s a Dairy Delight. As you can see, the building looks the same. The Dairy Queen sign on the building has been covered up with a canvas Dairy Delight sign. The sign on top of the mini-golf sign has been covered up.
Apparently Yanks Old Niagara restaurant has had a few concerts this year as part of the “Light of Day” benefits. It all culimates on November 14 when there will be a benefit concert:
After a very successful inaugural event in 2007, the Light of Day Niagara team is ready for the upcoming show. We are “just around the corner” from the 2nd Light of Day Niagara. On November 14, 2008, Joe D’Urso, Willie Nile, The Maddhatters and numerous other acts will take the stage of the Greg Frewin Theatre to help raise money for 2 great causes - Parkinson’s Disease and ALS.
Someone with a blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls:
Gord and I went to Niagara Falls today. It was a Single Horizons event and there were 55 of us on the bus.
Gord and I tried the computerized roulette game … it was good because the minimum bet is only $2 (compared to $15 at the tables). I played and lost $40.
Then we walked to the Falls. Alas, it was raining so we didn’t go too close.
From the Milton Canadian Champion:
A new international festival that showcased the sights, sounds, tastes, and experiences from different countries to Niagara Falls locals and tourists was a complete success, said Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams.
“It was absolutely a success. We had tourists and locals who really enjoyed the festival.”
The parks commission introduced the new Celebrate Cultures festival in early September to the Clifton Hill area for a period of three weeks throughout the month.
Williams said all three cultures — Argentina, Japan and China — were enjoyed by people from all over the area.
Note: I was out along the parkway every day, and I never noticed a thing going on. I admit that I was on the other side of the road, and I didn’t walk all the way down to Table Rock place, but I was regularly along the parkway between Clifton Hill and Murray Hill, and there was never anything that drew my attention over to the other side of the road.
From the Juneau (Alaska) Empire:
We had no trouble finding the Sheridan Fallsview Hotel; it sat on top of a cliff above the Canadian falls.
The Ryens and Tina insisted that we ask for a falls side room. Our falls side room was on the 19th floor and had floor to ceiling windows that at first made me woozy, but I soon adjusted.
The falls were spectacular! The Canadian side is more spectacular than the American side. The Canadian falls rush over a gigantic curved rock outcropping and rainbows constantly highlight the falls. Millions of gallons of water continuously spill over Niagara Falls.
We took the funicular down the cliff to the Canadian falls, admired the falls and the rainbows, took photos and were sprayed with mist at times. Tourists from all over the world travel to see Niagara Falls.
Last Wednesday I received the latest newsletter from the Radisson Hotel & Suites Fallsview.
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