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Annual number of visits, last five years.2011: 332,559 2012: 348,990 2013: 419,716 2014: 355,153 2015: 445,951 2016: 355,015 |
According to Google there were 355,015 visits to the site in 2016. A "visit" is someone coming to the site and viewing one or more pages. If someone comes a second time, that's counted as a second visit. Roughly 86% of our visitors came from the U.S, with 14% from other nations. Not surprisingly, most of the foreign visitors come from English-language nations, but we get some visitors from just about everywhere.
2011: 332,559
2012: 348,990
2013: 419,716
2014: 355,153
2015: 445,951
2016: 355,015
We first launched our site 17 years ago in 2000. The number of visitors grew steadily until around 2010. But as you can see from the graph above, our growth over the past six years has leveled off. One possible cause for this may be that web traffic is increasingly being driven by social media and we are not active in that arena. Unfortunately, we don't have social-media skills nor do we yet have the financial resources to hire someone for social-media promotion.
Still, for an all-volunteer, educational, non-commercial, website with absolutely no promotion budget or any kind of foundation or corporate funding, a range of 330,000 to 450,000 visits per year is nothing to sneeze at.
As you can see from the our month-by-month graph below, as usual our traffic rose and fell with the school calendar as grade school and college students used the site for homework, reports, research, and so on. When school is in session, the number of visits each day to the site generally ranges from 750 to 2000 (compared to 300-1200 when school is not in session). Our busiest months are January (MLK Day), February (Black History Month) and March-May when term papers and class projects are being worked on.
In April of 2016 we started asking for donations to help defray website costs and allow us to undertake new improvements (prior to that we had been paying all expenses out of our own pockets).
Financial Report 2016 Income Public donations $4,797 Our contributions $4,716 TOTAL $9,513 Expenses Email service $505 Software $176 Google search $100 Online research $140 Copying & scanning $30 Backup services $15 Misc $80 Domain registration $350 Transcribing $1,650 Typing/Formatting $585 Renovate home page $420 PayPal fees $130 Travel $1,486 TOTAL $5,667 Balance $3,846
In terms of content, 2016 was good year for website. The number of stories, letters and documents continued to significantly increase.
Some Rough Content Counts:
631 Veterans Roll Call (names & contact info of Movement veterans) 209 History & Timeline Articles 384 Original articles & speeches by Movement activists 350 Stories, narratives, & oral histories by Movement activists 254 Original letters & reports from the field 2280 Original Freedom Movement documents 1484 Guesstimate of Movement photos on the site 203 Commentaries by Movement veterans 45 Transcribed discussions of Movement veterans 193 Movement-Related Poems 614 Bibliography of Freedom Movement books 1293 Web Links, approximate count of links to other Movement websites & pages
Top-10 Most Visited Sections:
Top-10 Most Visited History & Timeline Pages:
1. The Year 1961 — (Freedom Rides, Albany Movement, McComb MS, Baton Rouge, etc) 2. The Year 1960 — (Student Sit-ins, SNCC Founded, New Orleans Schools, etc) 3. 1963: January-June — (Birmingham, Greenwood, North Carolina, Medgar Evers, etc) 4. The Year 1954 — (Brown v Board of Education & Massive Resistance, etc) 5. 1963: July-December — (March on Washington, St. Augustine, etc) 6. 1964: Mississippi Freedom Summer Events 7. 1965: Selma & the March to Montgomery 8. The Year 1955 — (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Emmett Till, Baltimore Sit-Ins, etc) 9. The Year 1962 — (Greenwood, Meredith at 'Ol Miss, Jackson, etc) 10. 1964: January-June — (Civil Rights Act, St. Augustine, Hattiesburg, etc)
Top-10 Most Visited Photo Album Pages:
Top-10 Most Visited Poetry Pages:
1. Poems of: Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 2. Poems of: Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) 3. Poems of: W.E.B. du Bois (1868-1963) 4. Poems of: Sterling Brown (1903-1989) 5. Poems of: Margaret Block 6. Poems of: Naomi Long Madgett 7. Poems of: Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906 8. Poems of: Countee Cullen (1903-1946) 9. Poems of: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) 10. Poems of: Joan Dresner Berstein
Top-40 Most Viewed Individual Pages (excluding Table of Contents pages and individual pages in the Photo Album, History & Timeline, and Poetry sections).
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