"Reprographics 101" - Blog-Site Visitor Statistics

It’s been about two years since I started this blog-site devoted to the Reprographics Industry and business, and I’d like to share with you some of the “statistics” reported to me by “Google Analytics.” Please note that the “analytics” feature was, for some unknown reason, turned off for about a four or five month period. (It took me that long to figure out how to embed the code to turn “tracking” back on.) Because tracking was turned off for a period of time, the actual numbers would be higher than shown below.

As regards visitors from the United States, we have not yet had visitors from two states; West Virginia and South Dakota. (If you have a reprographer-friend in those states, please e-mail them to tell them about this blog, as I’d like to fill-out the U.S. map.)

Visitor traffic to the blog has been on the increase (substantially), since mid-2010. I think that’s because the number of articles has been on the increase since then.

Note that this blog has, by now, been visited by people from 62 different countries (with the exception that one country is named “not set”, and perhaps that’s a country whose name is continuously changing?) I’m actually quite amused that visitors have been visited from that many (62) different countries. How in the world did they find this blog?! None of the other reprographics-industry-bloggers mention “Reprographics 101” on their blog-sites. None of the Reprographics Industry associations (or organizations) mention “Reprographics 101” on their web-sites or blog-sites. That means that this blog-site is not promoted or named by others, and, therefore, it is not easy to attract visitors to this blog-site. Most of the “promotion” (if you would call it that), has been limited to me e-mailing people I know to let them know about “Reprographics 101”, and I did hand out a few business cards at the last IRGA Convention.

As to visitors from countries other than the U.S., I worked for 2+ years, part-time, in Eastern/Central Europe, after retiring from NGI (FL and GA), and, during my time working in Europe, I had the opportunity to get to know reprographers (and vendors to reprographers) who own, or who are with, reprographics companies in Europe. And, some of those I met have referred their industry friends to “Reprographics 101.” For example, I actually know reprographers in Sweden, Azerbaijan, Dubai, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and lots of other countries.

Okay, here are the statistics for “Reprographics 101”, cumulative from the beginning of the blog until now (with the exception of the time tracking was turned off):

# of Visits	6665
# of Absolute Unique Visitors	3090
# of Pageviews	12,333
Rank/U.S. State	# of visits
1
California	1,294
2
Illinois	612
3
Florida	466
4
North Carolina	294
5
New York	292
6
Texas	231
7
Massachusetts	216
8
Georgia	181
9
District of Columbia	170
10
Maryland	120
11 to 50
Other U.S. States	1,155
	5,031
Rank/Country	# of visits
1
United States	5,031
2
Croatia	312
3
Canada	190
4
United Kingdom	158
5
Netherlands	134
6
Hungary	118
7
Australia	117
8
Czech Republic	109
9
India	97
10
Russia	56
11
France	52
12
Germany	42
13
Brazil	30
14
Poland	23
15
Spain	21
16
Sweden	17
17
Italy	12
18
Japan	11
19
Nigeria	11
20
Malaysia	10
21
Switzerland	8
22
Finland	8
23
(not set)	7
24
Slovenia	6
25
Philippines	6
26
Singapore	5
27
Denmark	5
28
South Korea	5
29
Romania	4
30
South Africa	4
31
Belgium	4
32
Norway	4
33
United Arab Emirates	3
34
Taiwan	2
35
Indonesia	2
36
Estonia	2
37
Hong Kong	2
38
Israel	2
39
Bangladesh	2
40
Latvia	2
41
Argentina	2
42
Ireland	2
43
Puerto Rico	2
44
Pakistan	2
45
Azerbaijan	2
46
New Zealand	2
47
Turkey	2
48
Saudi Arabia	2
49
Cyprus	2
50
Jersey	1
51
Kenya	1
52
Portugal	1
53
Vietnam	1
54
Trinidad and Tobago	1
55
Libya	1
56
Slovakia	1
57
Austria	1
58
Madagascar	1
59
Uruguay	1
60
Seychelles	1
61
Thailand	1
62
Mexico	1
	6,665