DearDiveBuddy.com

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1th of november: OVER 17.000 VISITS AFTER 7 MONTH ON THE WEB!
To give an impression of the development of DearDiveBuddy.com, once a week we publish the awstat data as counted directly on our server. We like to be open and honest about our statistics. Be aware that most websites only provide a hitcounter. Hits are every mouseclick made within the site. You can imagine that this way even a small site can generate a quit impressive number if you think it are visitors. Our hitcounter would be way over half a million right now, but this is of little relevance.

The effort starts to pay of. Each day we have more than 100 visitors now. If we analyze the data you can see that half of the visitors are returning visitors (2,2 visits / visitor). About one on seven of the visitors bookmarks the site in their favorites (to consider online bookmarking services like Delicious don't show up). The average visitor looks at about 8 different pages. This is remarkably high, considering that most of the videos are accessible from the Home Page (you might have seen 10 videos without leaving the Home Page). Many visitors stay in the site for over 30 minutes in a single visit. The majority of the traffic is generated in Italy. It increased a lot after we translated the articles in italian language. Practically all generated through search engines. Also dutch is finished. We made translations in German , French, Greek, Russian, Czech and Spanish as well. The translation of these languages still has to be corrected. Please, help us with this. The articles are directly editable even by an anonymous user.

Deardivebuddy.com is mentioned 12700 times on other websites. Taking this measure puts us on ranking number 30 of all the scuba diving websites worldwide (source: www.top100scubadiving.com).

Due to high traffic we exceeded or server's CPU limitations a few times. Right away solved by using cached memory for page requests by anonymous visitors.

We still lack a significant number of registrations by Dive Pros. We still have to spread the word a bit more and ask your help. Forward the top article of the Home Page to all the scuba instructors and divemaster you know. Or forward the article about the circular bubbles or whatever you want to all the divers you know. You find an "Email this page" option under each article. Also here there is an upcoming change. To distinguish even better with Facebook and Myspace like websites (we already offer more flexibility and advert-free space) we will give "unlimited" space (5GB), allow full-HTML and give the possibility to create sub-accounts for your divers. Also it will be possible to have a slideshow presentation of an album. After that we offer a functionality not only unique for the scuba-sites, but on the web in general.

Oops! The most popular content is "Page Not Found"! Well, we looked in to this and found out it's created by our mediaplayer. Each videorequest results in a rendered video for the visitor (as wanted) and a "page not found" only for the statistics (not for the visitor). Considering the innocent character of this bug, we decided that we won't fix this. It explains what you see in the "popular content" block (left down).

List of the most popular articles with a view counter.

Search engine referers.

Visitors coming from 73 different countries:

Countries top 10:

Daily details. The website started officially from the 1 of april 2008.