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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
- May-07 - 66
- May-08 –84
- Jun-07 - 80
- Jun-08 –82
- Jul-07 - 78
- Jul-08 –117
- Aug-07 - 87
- Aug-08 –114
- 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
- No longer “Marvel”-ous? - 74 comments
- Fight at casino club - 46 comments
- 20 floors and counting at the Hilton - 43 comments
- The New Border Rules - 36 comments
- Niagara Falls Question: What is the biggest eyesore next to the Falls? - 32 comments
Top 5 categories
- Niagara Falls News (1,071 posts)
- Niagara Falls Attractions (576 posts)
- Niagara Falls Hotels (405 posts)
- Niagara Falls Developments (322 posts)
- Niagara Falls Events (198 posts)
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)
- Another Fight On Clifton Hill Niagara Falls – 2,302 clicks
- YouTube - Bronto’s Adventure Playland with VeggieTales - 1,330 clicks
- YouTube - Brick City in Summer 2007 - 1,159 clicks
- Clifton Hill official web site - 1,068 clicks
- Great Wolf Lodge - 1,056 clicks
YouTube Videos
- Total number of YouTube video views - 28 videos, 87,512 views
Top 5 YouTube Videos
- Marineland Canada Topple Tower – 32,637
- Marineland’s Sky Screamer in Summer 2007 – 11,421
- Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls Bear Track Landing Waterpark – 11,332
- Orca Whale Splash Show at Marineland Canada – 8,490
- Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls Bear Track Landing Wave Pool – 4,699
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!
Things have certainly slowed down now that Labour Day is past. I hope to be able to keep posting 4-6 things a day through September, but at some point it is definitely going to slow down. I think last year I was posting 1-3 a day through the winter. We’ll see what happens this year.
As for upcoming posts, I’ve still got some posts to get caught up on (I’ve had drafts saved for months), and I also have the following to come at some point over the next month or two:
- May - August stats report
- Trip to Brick City
- Trip to Bronto’s Adventure Playland
- Trip to Dinosaur Park
- Trip to Fun House
- Trips to Marineland
- Trips to various Niagara Parks Commission sites
- Niagara Falls Trading Cards
- Posts about a couple of books
- Updated blog theme
- Updates to the main part of the site (i hope for this every year, but never actually get to it)
As always, all I ask of you is that you keep visiting the site, and bring your friends
Well, Labour Day weekend is here. The weather is supposed to be great in Niagara Falls. If you are coming, enjoy your trip!
I’m taking a long weekend off, so I’ll leaving shortly and will be back in that “heaven” for a couple of days. I have a few things that are setup to be posted automatically tomorrow.
On an unrelated note, I’ve updated the License Plate Hunt page with some more findings. We’ve seen 8 provinces, 29 states, 1 diplomat plate, and 1 Mexican plate.
Don’t worry, I won’t be posting these all the time… the more license plates we see, the fewer updates there will be.
I’ve added a couple more provinces and several more states to the License Plate Hunt list, as well as a US Diplomat!
I added another province to the License Plate Hunt list (thanks Chris!) and 5 more states.
We had a great few days away. My cell phone didn’t work… there was on Internet… it was wonderful! However, all good things must come to an end, so I’m back. It’ll take me a few days to get caught on some things, but I should be back to the 5-6 posts a day again…
I will be out of town until late Tuesday night, so I won’t be able to post anything new Monday or Tuesday. However, I will setup a couple of my outstanding posts to post automatically, so there still will be a couple of things posted.
Have a great weekend!
A new addition to AccessNiagara / Niagara Falls Blog
One of the regular commenters on the Niagara Falls Blog has been FALLSVIEW. He has been watching the site for a few years, and even started his own site to promote Niagara Falls (along with participating at some other enthusiast sites as well). FALLSVIEW’s real name is Lonny Bailey, and before he started his site, I had suggested that he write some posts for the Niagara Falls Blog. It didn’t work out at that point, but recently Lonny contacted me and asked if the offer was still available. We met last night and we’re going to give it a try.
Lonny works in St. Catharines and lives in Niagara Falls (the opposite of me), and so he is around more. He’ll basically be doing what I do… taking pictures and posting about new things. As the construction of the Convention Centre starts, he’ll take the lead in taking pictures of the construction for the blog. Over the winter he will probably also run a weekly poll on the site (which I sort of did last winter but which fizzled out).
This is by no means an indication that I’m going to reduce the amount of work that I’ve been doing. But with someone helping to keep the posts coming, I’ll have some more time to improve the design of the site (not just the blog), and get some more content up. That in turn will hopefully bring more visitors, which of course is what we all want.
Please join me in welcoming Lonny to the team!