Thank you to everyone who filled in the questionnaire on Internet use that was handed out at the Society's September meeting. The answers you gave us are helpful in understanding how the Society’s website is used by our members.
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| Use of Internet by people filling in the survey |
Why the questionnaire? Well we know a lot about our website visitors, how many there are, where they are logged in, how they get to the website and what type of machine they are using.
Based on those people at the meeting who filled in a questionnaire, it seems reasonable to expect almost three-quarters of our members to be regular internet users. That is lower than the Canadian average but the average age of a Society member is probably higher than the Canadian average.
Not counting non-members who didn't know the Society had a website and people who said they never used the Internet it seems that other members do use the Society's site. The three most mentioned features are shown in the following chart. People said they used a lot of different Internet tools but nobody admitted to “tweeting”.
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| Reported Use of the Society's Web Site |
Some general statistics - discounting, bots, crawlers, worms and their ilk we currently have about 6,000 “hits” a month. In August 2011 that translated into 329 "different people" (based on IP addresses) visiting the website. And they must find something interesting because many of those people returned. In August we averaged 1.7 visits per visitor and they looked at an average of 5.7 pages on each visit.
The current website was published in December 2010 and is kept up to date (usually) on a monthly basis. Based on the feedback in the questionnaire we may re-arrange the site to make popular pages easier to find, but, to keep those visitors interested in the history of Hastings County and the Society we need (like any other publication) have fresh interesting material to publish.
Contributions and Ideas are Always Welcome!
