It's time to check in once again, and see how much attention our web site is getting on the internet. So, I ran a report provided by our web host, Club Express, downloaded the data into a Excel spreadsheet, and produced a chart. The chart below shows the counts of our web visits, by month, for 2015 and 2016.
This averages to about 210 web site visits per day, and 6,500 per month!
How does this compare to previous years? Here are the numbers starting with 2011, the first full year of having our web site with the Club Express host.
Conclusion: Our web presence remains very strong!
The monthly newsletter has a lot to do with that. Every single article or trip report in the newsletter is one web page, and we have about a dozen of those each month, or about 140 per year. All of those web pages are accessible by internet searches with Google or other search engines. And the more activity a web site has, the higher those pages appear in the search results. So, when anyone, anywhere in the world, searches the internet for anything to do with canoeing or kayaking in the Houston area, they are likely to get a list containing multiple items from the HCC web site! Try it, and see for yourself!