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This report covers a website based on
the life and achievements of eighteenth-century inventor Henry Cort.
Please email site controller Eric
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Running Site Report
from March 2007
June 2008 upload
Site monitoring
Visitor numbers have been
falling over the last few months: the weekly number dropped below 100 in w/e 1st
June for the first time this year, partly due to a failure of the monitor
program over the last 36 hours of that week.
Landmarks
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Site set up
24 July 2006 Official launch 29 July 2006 1000 visitors 17 November 2006 2000 visitors 5 February 2007 3000 visitors 9 March 2007 4000 visitors 8 May 2007 5000 visitors 12 July 2007 6000 visitors 10 September 2007 7000 visitors 15 October 2007 8000 visitors 14 November 2007 9000 visitors 26 December 2007 10000 visitors
2 February 2008 11000 visitors
4 March 2008 12000 visitors 13
April 2008 13000 visitors 28
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Monthly totals: new visitors
Record for new visitors
per week: 284 for w/e 20 January 2008
Record for new visitors
per day: 112 on 14 February 2008
Previous record 66 !!
Record for a Sunday: 61 on
28 October 2007
On 13th October
2007 the number of visiting countries reached 100.
Countries visiting most
frequently are UK and USA.
Entry to site
Although there are several
sites that link to this one, the main mode of access has been a Web search.
Since site revision in
January 2008 there has been a marked change in key phrase selection.
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5 November 2007
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15 February 2008
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Analysis of 100 visits 10-14 July
2007 (only attempt so far)
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Dedicated
visits
40 Direct, linked, searching for “Henry
Cort” or “puddling” Iron-related
topics 9 Including searches for named ironmasters Other
featured topics 33 e.g. “Arethusa”, “Samuel Marshall” Accidental visits 18 |
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Duration
of visits
The majority of visits are still single-page, which register as “less
than 5 secs” on the monitoring programme (which can’t register the time at
which the visitor exits from the site).
Since the January update, this trend seems to be more pronounced,
combined with a wide variety of search terms and entry pages. One notable exception is recorded on the
monitoring program page.
Site
modifications
The monitoring
program page is one of few that have been changed in the June 2008
upload. This running report is changed
for each upload, while the list of visiting countries
is uploaded after a new country has been added (every upload so far).
The May upload featured a
new page on the monitoring program, plus small changes to several other pages.
The April upload incorporated
new information on Toulmin, Crowley,
Society of Arts, 1791
signatory, Gosport worthies (Minchin), London ironmonger (Lindegren) and some Becher pages,
plus minor changes to other pages.
The March upload included significant revision of the Cort family page, with lesser revisions of many other pages
including extra maps on some of the Hampshire pages.
February uploads reflected discoveries of the Cort-Carpenter
link, while the index page was substantially revised.
The January upload involved
little new material, but the site was substantially reworked, aiming to make it
more user-friendly.
The December 2007 upload
included a new page on the tangle of wills in the Burges family, with
associated changes and updates to other pages.
November 2007 uploads
included new pages on Cort’s twilight years and memorials, with other pages
amended,
September and October 2007
uploads included additions to the religion page.
The July/August 2007 upload
included new pages on
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Connections between Cort and the campaign to
abolish the slave trade.
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Connections between the Cort and Gladstone
families.
There was also further
information on the Becher family.
The June 2007 upload included
a new page on London, and a page listing signatories to the 1791 petition: also additional information
on the “links with Titchfield” page.
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Earlier history of site |
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running site report