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Annual Traffic Since 20102011: 332,559 2012: 348,990 2013: 419,716 2014: 355,153 2015: 445,951 2016: 355,015 2017: 300,931 2018: 253,677 |
According to Google there were 253,677 visits to our site in 2018. A "visit" is someone coming to the site and viewing one or more pages. If someone comes a second time, that's counted as a second visit. Roughly 85% of our visitors came from the U.S, with 15% from other nations. Not surprisingly, most of the foreign visitors come from English-language nations, but we get some visitors from just about everywhere.
2011: 332,559
2012: 348,990
2013: 419,716
2014: 355,153
2015: 445,951
2016: 355,015
2017: 300,931
2018: 253,677
We first launched our site 19 years ago in 2000. As you can see from the graph above, the number of visitors grew until around 2013 but our growth since then has leveled off and has now begun to decline. One likely reason is that the site was originally intended for use by Movement veterans themselves, but the inevitable realities of age are taking their toll. Students now form the majority of our users and for them web traffic is increasingly driven by social media where we are not active. Also, we're a serious, research, article, document, & narrative oriented site that is not well-suited for cell phone viewing or Twitted-limited attention spans.
Still, for a volunteer-run, non-commercial, educational website with nothing for sale, and no promotion budget nor any kind of foundation or corporate funding, more 250,000 visits per year is not shabby.
As you can see from the our month-by-month graph below, our traffic rises and falls with the school calendar as grade school and college students use the site for homework, reports, research, and so on. When school is in session, the number of visits each day to the site generally ranges from 700 to 1800 (compared to 300-1200 when school is not in session). Our busiest months are usually January (MLK Day), February (Black History Month), and April & May when term papers come due.
Starting in the middle of 2016, we added a
button so
that those who found the site valuable could help support it. The great bulk
of donations we've received have come from Freedom Movement veterans
themselves. We've used this small income for technical enhancements and
occasional data-entry help since we can no longer carry that load entirely on
our own. Note that the financial report below does not include the larger
out-of-pocket and in-kind expenses that we cover ourselves. Nor does it
include the cost of web-hosting services provided by Tougaloo College.
CRMVet Income & Expenses ~ 2018 Amount Total Income Donations $6,992.17 $6,992.17 Expenses Bank Services $120.00 Copying $48.44 Data Entry & Formatting $2,363.00 Email Services $611.04 Internet:Domain Registration $181.92 Internet:SSL Certificate $125.00 Misc. $124.00 Printing $318.89 Promotion $197.00 Taxes:Business $101.52 Transcription services $1,800.00 Expenses Total $5,889.29 NET $1002.88
A lot of new content was added to the site in 2018. The number of stories, letters and documents significantly increased. We now provide well over 5,000 searchable documents, letters, articles, & etc, (excluding photos and images).
Some Rough Content Counts:
652 Veterans listed on Roll Call (names, testimony, contact info) 261 History & Timeline Articles 430 Original articles & speeches by Movement activists 491 Stories, narratives, & oral histories by Movement activists 3228 Original Freedom Movement documents 637 Original letters & reports from the field 1634 Movement photos & art 241 Commentaries by Movement veterans 51 Transcribed discussions of Movement veterans 195 Movement-Related Poems 643 Freedom Movement books listed in the Bibliography 1423 Web Links, to other Movement websites & pages
Most Visited Sections:
Most Read History & Timeline Pages:
1. The Year 1961 — (Freedom Rides, Albany Movement, McComb MS, Baton Rouge, etc) 2. The Year 1960 — (Student Sit-ins, SNCC Founded, New Orleans Schools, etc) 3. 1963: January-June — (Birmingham, Greenwood, North Carolina, Medgar Evers, etc) 4. The Year 1954 — (Brown v Board of Education & Massive Resistance, etc) 5. The Year 1955 — (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Emmett Till, Baltimore Sit-Ins, etc) 6. 1964: Mississippi Freedom Summer Events 7. 1963: July-December — (March on Washington, St. Augustine, etc) 8. 1965: Selma & the March to Montgomery 9. The Year 1962 — (Greenwood, Meredith at 'Ol Miss, Jackson, etc) 10. 1964: January-June — (Civil Rights Act, St. Augustine, Hattiesburg, etc)
Most Viewed Photo Album Pages:
Most Read Articles by Movement Veterans:
Most Read Thoughts and Commentaries by Movement Veterans:
1. Ghettos, Segregation, & Poverty in the 1960s, Bruce Hartford 2. In the Attics of My Mind, Casey Hayden 3. Courage Was the Key, Bruce Hartford 4. Dear friend statement, Diane Nash 5. A Black Man Fights the Draft, Michael Simmons 6. Meditation on July 4th, Bruce Hartford 7. The Help," (film review), Casey Hayden 8. Growing Up in Harlem & Mississippi Freedom Summer, Bob Moses 9. Against Discouragement, Howard Zinn 10. Quilt Story: Black Rural Women, White Entrepreneurs, and the American Dream, Linda Hunt Beckman
Most Viewed Original Freedom Movement Documents:
Submitted January 1, 2019
Bruce Hartford, webspinner
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