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THIS REPORT IS ALSO ON THE CURRENT (2009 Spring) NEWSLETTER (Webmaster News) PAGE! Landesverband USA Website Webmaster Report April 2009 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! 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
DURATION OF WEB SITE VISITS-2008
(This represents the average monthly visit durations per unique visitor)
WEB SITE HITS PER MONTH-2008
(This does not include hits by robots, spiders, etc.)
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 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 2009Review
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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