WestNipissingOuest.com Sturgeon Falls and area news, info and events
We are pleased that WestNipissingOuest.com has been so well received within the community and that word is starting to spread about our sites and services. Month over month, the number of visitors to our site has been growing by leaps and bounds. From 12,000 in January to over 20,000 in April…and May is shaping up to see us hit 25,000 (with over 800 daily visits). Hopefully, this is an indication that we’re on the right track and that we are bringing you the news, information and services that matter to you the most! And we’re not done! We’re working hard to bring you even more features and services.
Thank you for making WestNipissingOuest.com your #1 online source for news, events and information in West Nipissing.
The following is a snapshot of the traffic statistics for WestNipissingOuest.com from January 1, 2012 to August 15, 2012.
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A word about “page hits”:
Of note, while the number of actual visitors to the site and number of page views have increased steadily over the past 9 months, because of site optimization we’ve implemented to reduce load times and increase site responsiveness – reducing the amount of scripts and images being called when a visitor loads any of our pages – our “hit count” has been steadily decreasing at a much steeper rate. This is a GOOD thing. The less hits a page load produces means less lag from the point of view of a visitor to the site.
We’ve always maintained that “Page HITS” are a useless metric which only measure, if anything, poor website design and optimization. When we first launched WNO and as you can see from the graph below, we we’re generating huge amounts of hits. This is due to the fact that as early as January, we were adding several important chunks of code, scripts, to make the site more functional…once the code was implemented and tested, however, we got down to the business of optimizing it to a point that we’ve managed to reduce our Hits by more than half while growing our ACTUAL visitors by over 3,000 in the same 3 month span.
