One thing that is important to Medicine Hat Media are the visitors and potential for a community. With a growing amount of visitors, we have to try to keep the site updated and current as much as possible, which isn’t always easy given the circumstances. Along the way we have developed quite a following, but there is still room for growth and improvement which this post highlights. I know, what I wrote might not have anything to do with the article, but in a way it does, because the most of the statistics relate to our visitors.

Here’s a little information thus far, as of  July 26th, 2009 about Medicine Hat Media’s visitors, connections, general information, and statistics on and off the site since our launch in October, 2008.

• 172 posts
• 214 comments
• 114 registered users
• 15 submitted emails
• 32 members on the Facebook group
• 155 followers on Twitter
• 84 friends on MySpace

• 7 site partners
• 4 polls total
• 157 voters on our polls
• 176 votes cast
• 160 images uploaded
• 18,706 site visits
• Top three city visitors in order: Medicine Hat, Calgary, and Edmonton
• Google Pagerank of 4
• Alexa traffic rank of 1,238,967
• Most popular article: To the Gallows, Gregory Fritzke!
• Most searched keyword: “ashley van ham”
• Most popular visitor browser: Internet Explorer with 51% usage
• Most popular visitor operating system: Windows with 84% usage
• Most popular visitor screen resolution: 1024×768 with 25% usage
• Top traffic source not including search engines: Facebook

Sorry that this post was somewhat technical, but I think it will serve as a nice benchmark for us when we take a look back on it in a year or even two years time. Maybe we can do this every year? I doubt that anybody finds this kind of stuff interesting besides the people that work directly with the site, but who knows.