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THIS REPORT IS ALSO ON THE CURRENT (2009 Spring) NEWSLETTER (Webmaster News) PAGE!

Landesverband USA Website Webmaster Report

April 2009

http://donauschwaben-usa.org

Thomas C. Thornton, M.D. , Webmaster

CONTENTS OF REPORT

General Introduction

Website General Statistics - 2008

Top Countries Visiting Web Site – 2008

Duration of Web Site Visits- 2008

Web Site Hits per Month- 2008

Top Web Site Pages Visited- 2008

Top Ten Web Site Pages 1st quarter- 2009

Web Site Structure Summary- 2008

List of Services Available from MyHosting for Web Site Analysis

Suggestions for Article/Information/Pix Submissions to LUSA Website

Webmaster (Landesverband Website) Recommendations

Webmasters Meeting Agenda April- 2009

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

    The present URL for the national website was established near the end of 2005. Its present URL has remained the same: (http://donauschwaben-usa.org/ ) .  The present site continues to receive "tens of thousands" of hits. There has been an increase of over 1100% more usage than in the last evaluated time period.  While there are several sections of the website that continue to draw a lot of visitor interest, some sections continue to experience a drop in visitation.  The most likely cause, again, is lack of current content from the membership.  The website is now an overwhelming instrument of promoting the Donauschwaben interests.  However, its potential usage remains unrealized.

 

WEBSITE GENERAL STATISTICS APRIL- 2009

(For 2008)

Over 2,427 Printable Pages

(Was 1239 one year ago; an increase of 1188 pages/a 96% increase! )

Total of 440 separate pages in website.

(Was 147 one year ago; an increase of 293 pages/ a 200% increase! )

Newsletter, Author Archives, 2008 Landestrachtenfest Weltbewerb, and History sections with the most hits and printable pages for 2008!

Newsletter has grown from 25 printable pages in 2007 (as a single web page) to 163 printable pages in the 2008 Fall Newsletter

(This is an increase of 138 pages/ a 552% increase in one year! )

Newsletter went from one web page in 2007 to 12 separate pages in 2008.

(Intro Page, Magazine Life_Leisure, Magazine Literature_Music_Poetry, News_Donauschwaben Events, News Donauschwaben Overseas, News Donauschwaben Obituaries, News DS Stiftung, News DVHH, News History_Politics, News Sport, News Travel, and News Webmaster)

Approximately 484,070 total website hits for all of 2008.

(Was 68,000 one year ago for all previous years combined; represents over 1100 % increase)

This represents 11.5 times more hits in one year than all previous years since the inception of this website!

One year ago the average # hits for the entire site per month was >3,500.

In 2008 the average # hits for the entire site per month was >40,000!!

(This represents a 1100 % increase per month in one year alone)

(There were over 71,000 hits in 2008 September and again in 2009 March!! )

Find a full copy of this report in Webmaster Archive Section of Website at:

http://www.donauschwaben-usa.org/2009_april_webmaster_report.htm

TOP COUNTRIES VISITING WEBSITE - 2008

Country   Jan-08 Feb-08 Mar-08 Apr-08 May-08 Jun-08 Jul-08 Aug-08 Sep-08 Oct-08 Nov-08 Dec-08   Total Year Hits)
USA 16,952 18,893 19,508 21,052 22,089 17,197 21,721 32,538 53,174 36,368 23,731 23,540 306,763
Germany 6,724 6,070 6,006 4,452 3,644 4,047 3,833 3,703 5,888 4,985 5,893 6,876 62,121
Canada 4,123 2,810 2,931 2,589 3,135 2,385 3,609 3,019 5,628 3,940 5,437 2,693 42,299
Hungary 875 656 369 378 351 443 726 508 664 4,970
Italy 875 251 251 186 1,563
Spain 193 319 512
France 239 146 592 211 328 493 2,009
Austria 802 912 1,170 636 498 427 493 438 1,323 999 1,609 1,500 10,807
Poland 281 288 569
Great Britain 306 500 787 235 278 487 278 179 569 365 520 4,504
Ivory Coast 425 425
Netherlands 262 344 248 552 307 1,713
Belgium 215 112 327
South Korea 248 248
Argentina 209 209
Brazil 300 300
Australia 192 180 183 157 312 231 1,255
Switzerland 243 243
China 209 209
Romania 280 391 671
Japan 90 90
Unknown 265 244 688 645 667 1,064 1,303 4,876
Sweden 127 199 173 499
Russian Federation 149 149
Crotia 206 206
 
Total Year Hits All 447,537

 

 

DURATION OF WEB SITE VISITS-2008

DURATION OF VISIT NUMBER OF UNIQUE VISITS PERCENT
0S-30S 1989 77.7%
30S-2MIN 166 6.4%
2MIN-5MIN 97 3.7%
5MIN-15MIN 107 4.1%
15MIN-30MIN 71 2.7%
30MIN-1HR 56 2.1%
>1HR 1 0%

(This represents the average monthly visit durations per unique visitor)

WEB SITE HITS PER MONTH-2008

MONTH # HITS
January 33,747
February 34,303
March 35,608
April 33,310
May 34,158
June 28,484
July 33,085
August 44,332
September 71,643
October 51,622
November 42,753
December 41,025
   
Total Hits for Year 2008 484,070
Average Monthly Hits for Year 2008 40,340

 

(This does not include hits by robots, spiders, etc.)

TOP WEB SITE PAGES VISITED-2008

WEB PAGE

(By Name)

STANDING

(Most Visited in Descending Order)

Newsletters/Author Archives 1
2008 Landestrachtenfest Wettbewerb 2
History Pages (all related) 3
Home Page 4
Donauschwaben Clubs 5
Calendar 6
Genealogy 7
German Food 8
Events 9
Officers 10
Help Page 11
Internet Links 12
Donauschwaben Tracht 13

TOP TEN WEB SITE PAGES

1st QUARTER 2009

 

WEB PAGE 

(By Name)

STANDING 

(most visited) (descending order)

History (Main Page)

1

Author Archives and Home Page (tied)

2

Donauschwaben Hymn

3

Donauschwaben Clubs

4

German Foods

5

Genealogy

6

Calendar

7

2009 Winter Newsletter

8

2009 Author Archives

9

History, Chapter 1

10

 

WEB SITE STRUCTURE SUMMARY 2008

 

NAMES

COUNT

SIZE (KB)

DESCRIPTION

All Files

4734

509781

All files in the current web

Pictures

2960

387064

Picture files in the current web

Unlinked Files

22

1315

Files in the current web that cannot be reached by starting from home page

Linked Files

4712

508465

Files in the current web that can be reached by starting from home page.

Slow Pages

608

1049704

Pages in the current web exceeding an estimated download time of 30 seconds at 28.8

Older Files

0

0

Files in the current web that have not been modified in over 72 days.

Recently Added Files

670

137939

Files in the current web that have been created in the last 30 days.

Hyperlinks

25537

 

All hyperlinks in the current web.

Unverified Hyperlinks

3006

 

Hyperlinks pointing to unconfirmed targets.

Broken Hyperlinks

4

 

Hyperlinks pointing to unavailable target files.

External Hyperlinks

3131

 

Hyperlinks pointing to files outside of the current web.

Internal Hyperlinks

22406

 

Hyperlinks pointing to other files within the current web.

Component Errors

18

 

Files in the current Web with components reporting an error.

 

List of Services Available from MyHosting for Website Analysis

 

Number of Unique Visitors

Number of Visits to Site

Number of Pages Visited

Number of Hits per Month

Hits By Days of Month

Hits By Days of Week

Hits By Hour of Day

Number of Visitors By Countries

Hits By Hosts

By Robots (with names of robots), Spiders, etc.

Duration of Visits

Hits by File Type (pages, images, etc)

Hits for each page

Operating Systems Used by visitors

Browsers Used by Visitors

Visitor Connections from (Bookmarks, Newsgroups, Search Engines, etc.)

Visitor Searches by Key Phrases or Keywords

IP addresses of Visitors

More...

 

Suggestions for Article/Information/Pix Submissions to LUSA Website

(These are essentially unchanged since April 2007)

1. MS Word  for word processed documents.

2. Sender to do viral check before sending material/files to (LWM).

3. Send pix in Jpeg format

Keep resolution low (but good enough) to minimize memory usage. They need to be kept within monitor field size for best and easiest presentation.  Try to keep the file size below 500K per picture.  The server will not accept large pix files.

4. Send information, pix, etc. as attachments and not in body of email message, if possible.

5. Be as current and early as possible (timely manner) to allow for (LUSA WM) time to place on website. Don’t wait until the last minute?!

6. Do spell check, etc. before submission to (LUSA WM).

7. Title information or article as it needs to be displayed before submission.

8. Notify (LUSA WM) if any information already submitted needs to be modified for correctness, currentness, clarifications, etc.

9. If possible, try to submit all articles in English and in German!

LUSA = Landesverband der Donauschwaben USA

LUSA WM = Landesverband Webmaster

Webmaster (Landesverband Website) Recommendations

 (These are essentially unchanged from April 2007)

1. Always give information as it is to be displayed.

2. Notify Landesverband webmaster (LUSA WM) ASAP of website changes (URL, calendar, etc.)

3. Specifically notify (LUSA WM) of who, at each club, is responsible for each club’s activities, corrections, and participation, etc.

4. All Donauschwaben Club links on each site needs to be kept current (report to LUSA WM monthly? to keep easily current)

5. Notify (LUSA WM) of all club officer changes ASAP.

6. Submit current photos of all LUSA officers for placement on national website. Can be emailed or mailed for scanning; submit similar to passport type of image 2x2 .

7. All LUSA officer emails or telephone numbers need be kept current to (LUSA WM).  (This is presently being done by Generalsekretärin, Elisabeth Miehle.

8. LUSA club secretaries need to keep (LUSA WM) updated.

9. Hosting Vereins need to keep (LUSA WM) updated for LUSA events and related information, etc.

10. All LUSA member clubs need to keep LUSA WM updated on current individual club webmasters and their email addresses..

11. Each club webmaster should notify (LUSA webmaster) and other LUSA clubs if links need to be updated.

12. Always address each item in correspondence, so as not to keep them "up in air".  If responses are to be deferred to later date, indicate this as so with expected time frame.

13. Recommend each LUSA member club webmaster place webmaster contact information in a readily accessible area on its own website. (Preferably on each page and "clickable")

14. Recommend LUSA presidents establish a consensus as to how "all" of the Landesverband der Donauschwaben, USA member clubs should structure their Donauschwaben Clubs Internet links page.

15. Other?

Webmasters Meeting Agenda April 2009

Review Changes in LUSA Website

Additions, deletions, Archives, Newsletter/Verbandszeitung/-zeitschrift,  etc,

Online Demonstration, if possible.  Or Via saved web on laptop.

 

Rearrangement of LUSA web structure.

            Newsletter structure

 

Review LUSA webmaster report.

 

Review MyHosting Statistical Information for LUSA Website

 

Reiterate need for authors for web newsletters, informational pages. Jugendseiten, etc.

 

Club Calendar submissions getting worse.

 

Remind Club webmasters that club president's agreed, as did the general assembly" that the club webmasters were to provide LUSA webmaster with all information, calendar, up-dates on present officers, projects, new emails, etc.

Each club to provide additional member(s) to help provide information to LUSA webmaster

 

Club Webmasters need to communicate better with each other to more efficiently promote the DS mission, etc.

 

"permission" to borrow news from individual club's webs for placement on Verband’s web site has been very successful.

All have links to each club for ease of visitor’s navigation

Can also try highlighted information with link to specific club's webpage for full information

 

Suggestions for Future LUSA Features

 

Need suggestions for other items, pages, sections, etc on LUSA website (pix, profiles, etc.)

 

Still getting requests for LUSA officer photos and email addresses on the LUSA web site.

 

Have received Labor Day Event Information from Detroit Carpathia; will be placed on LUSA website also.

 

Other?

 

If there are any additional items that need to be addressed at the Webmaster meeting, please let me know ASAP.

Respectively submitted,

Thomas C. Thornton, M.D.

Webmaster, Landesverband der Donauschwaben, USA

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