Another blogging milestone will soon be reached by Reprographics 101, if I don't drop dead

If I don’t drop dead within the next few days, Reprographics 101 will have achieved another milestone (of sorts), 900 posts, since I started Reprographics 101 on February 27, 2009.

Below, I’m going to share with you:

The first post I did, when I started Reprographics 101

Visitor statistics, since I first started Reprographics 101 – as reported by Google Analytics. Please note that the “analytics” service was, for some unknown reason, turned off for a period of about 4-6 months. If the analytics service had been working during that period, the numbers would be higher

My comments, from the perspective of the author of Reprographics 101 (that’s me!)

Initial post on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

“Initial remarks about my blog”

After spending (investing!) nearly all of my adult life (39 years and counting) in and around the reprographics business and industry - - and being one of the most opinionated people in the reprographics industry (at least that I'm aware of), I've decided to start a blog to share my opinions. (One of my ex-partners said, in the past, that I'm not "opinionated" but, rather, that I'm "arrogant". My take is that he said that because he doesn't know the difference between being "arrogant" and being "highly opinionated.") Whatever.

I should not fail to mention that my favorite comedian is Lewis Black. That should give you some sense of my sense of humor. Although I'm intending to use this blog to share my thoughts and opinions about the reprographics business and industry, it is highly likely (if not a given) that I will rant and rave about other topics.

Google Analytics reports these numbers (from inception through October 20, 2011, which, as I mentioned, does not include visitor activity when the analytics service was turned off.)

13,127 Visitors

30,976 Visits

55,907 Pageviews

30,976 visits came from 119 countries/territories

This country/territory (the U.S.) sent 25,281 visits via 52 regions

Statistics for “visits” from top 10 U.S. states:

State	Rank	# of visits
California	1	5,544
Florida	2	2,367
Illinois	3	2,043
New York	4	1,503
Texas	5	1,333
North Carolina	6	1,155
Massachusetts	7	900
Wisconsin	8	838
Maryland	9	804
Pennsylvania	10	775

My comments from the perspective of the author of Reprographics 101…..

Although there are other blogs devoted to the reprographics business and industry, I’m pretty sure that Reprographics 101 is the only blog authored by an individual or company not active in the reprographics business. Which “sort of” makes Reprographics 101 an “independent” blog and, some would say, an “unbiased” blog. In spite of the fact that I know a lot of reprographers (both here in the U.S. and around the world), only one reprographics blogger has mentioned – and provided a link to – Reprographic 101 – and that particular blogger (Jared Willis) is no longer working in the reprographics industry. It is, of course, frustrating that other reprographics-bloggers won’t mention the existence of Reprographics 101. Perhaps they don’t want the competition? Perhaps they don’t want others to know about Reprographics 101? Why that is, I haven’t a clue.

According to Google Analytics, which captures visitor statistics, Reprographics 101 gets anywhere from 100 to 225 “visitors” each day, during the week, and about 1/3^rd to 1/2 that many on weekends. That’s not a lot of visitors. Which often moves me to think hard about continuing Reprographics 101. But, nearly every time I think about discontinuing Reprographics 101, I get an e-mail from one of my blog-visitors telling me “great job – keep it up.” (or an e-mail along those lines.) So, I “truck on”.

I seldom get “comments” on articles I post on Reprographics 101. I’ve mentioned this before. Is that due to “reprographer-apathy”? Or, is it due to reprographers really wishing that Reprographics 101 would simply go away?

Some of my blog-visitors have suggested that I open up Reprographics 101 to advertising. I’d do that, but have not done that because I haven’t figured out how to do that.

I’ve considered adding a “forum” (or linking a forum) to Reprographics 101, but I haven’t figured out how to do that.

I’ve considered adding RSS feeds to web-sites that contain news about the reprographics industry and about the A/E/C industry, but I haven’t, as of yet, figured out how to do that. But, I plan on testing that over the next couple of weeks.

Okay, that’s enough rambling for today. Thank you.

Blog visit and visitor statistics – just a quick update

Reprographics 101 was visited by a total of 626 visitors, March 2^nd & March 3rd, 2011. (Visitor statistics are provided courtesy of Google Analytics.)

Those 626 visitors did 1,154 page views. The two most widely read posts were the ones about a) Xerox discontinuing wide-format and b) the Commentary and Opinions about that subject that appeared in a follow-up article. It’s actually quite amusing to me that the one most single read article was the one where I shared my opinions about the effects of Xerox’s decision to discontinue wide-format in the U.S. Readership of that particular article exceeded, by a fairly wide margin, readership of the “announcement” from Xerox that I posted on this blog.

And, those 626 visitors came from 24 different countries. I don’t know anyone in the industry in Indonesia, but, a visitor from Indonesia visited Repro 101 for 16:16 minutes and read three articles.

Blog visit and visitor statistics - another record day for visits and visitors

Reprographics 101 was visited by 262 visitors on March 2, 2011, which set another record for Reprographics 101. (Visitor statistics are provided courtesy of Google Analytics.)

Those 262 visitors did 642 page views. The two most widely read posts were the ones about a) Xerox discontinuing wide-format and b) the Commentary and Opinions about that subject that appeared in a follow-up article.

And, those 262 visitors came from 15 different countries, with visits from visitors in the U.S., Japan, the U.K., the Netherlands and Australia being, in that order, the top 5. The “bottom” five were Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Finland and India. The “middle” five were Sweden, Canada, Singapore, France and Mexico.

I was quite surprised to see that Reprographics 101 was visited by several engineering firms. That is very unusual, simply because I’ve done absolutely no announcements to anyone in the A/E/C industry that this blog exists.

"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