Man, I'm geeked!

[djkimmel]

Been working hard for a while now to make improvements to GreatLakesBass.com to make it the place to be for Great Lakes region bass anglers. So much more I'd like to do but I have made quite a few changes still. Some are obvious and some aren't but it is apparently working!

GreatLakesBass.tv has played a good part with anywhere from 80 to 160 people on there watching videos most of the time now. The new home page has had a big impact (with more changes coming there). And of course, I have so many of you to thank who have signed up and who make running this website much easier than maybe some other websites are to maintain, especially on the social community level. Thank you thank you thank you!

What I'm geeked about is the unique visitor numbers lately! Normally, in the winter months I would have anywhere between 4,000 and 6,000 completely unique visitors for any winter month with 300 or so visits a day. In the summer months I would jump up anywhere from 7,000 to maybe 11,000 unique visitors in a month with 400 to 600 visits a day, sometimes peaks up to 800 or more.

In February - often a very low month for the site - we had almost 12,000 unique visitors!! One of my biggest months ever... in the winter no less! I was pretty psyched about that until March rolled in and over everything from the past!!!!!!!

March 2011 finished with over 25,000 unique visitors!! I started checking all my stat and analytics programs for bugs first They all said pretty much the same thing (except compete.com which seems to be all over the map for some reason).

So I'm sitting here wondering... what happens if I get my normal warm weather jump in traffic this year? Hard to imagine that it could continue to go up the rate it is right now...? But, looking at the first 5 days of April with day 5 not completely in yet... we're at 6,090 unique visitors!!!!!! Multiply that daily average of 1,218 visitors per day by 30 days and you get - OVER 36,000 unique visitors!!!! In one month! And climbing closer to 2,000 visits per day! oh  my  gosh

All I can do is keep trying to improve the site and try to get more of the many new forum visitors to Join in on our fun faster! I've always said, 'the more, the merrier!'

And keep saying thanks to all of you who have been along for the ride to this point. I will be hoping to have more contests more often this year with cool prizes including a soon to be announced fishing report contest. Just waiting to finish up some sponsor discussions which is another reason I do ask all of you to please, please consider the companies who make it remotely possible to keep GreatLakesBass.com growing. And when you get a chance, make sure you tell them you are doing so because they help out GreatLakesBass.com. Without them, I cannot keep this site growing or even running.

For those of you I haven't lost in this long post by now, there are some interesting stats to follow just for fun.

[djkimmel]

Some summary stats for the 31 days between March 5, 2011 and April 4, 2011 (26,736 unique visitors / 38,106 visits):

Top 10 Countries in number of visits:

1.  United States  25,436
2.  Japan           1,159
3.  Canada            908
4.  Germany           622
5.  United Kingdom    611
6.  India             548
7.  France            449
8.  Brazil            355
9.  Italy             337
10. Spain             301

[djkimmel]

Top 10 States in the good ole U.S.

1.  Michigan   11,139
2.  Illinois    1,490
3.  California  1,304
4.  Ohio        1,283
5.  New York    1,007
6.  Texas         875
7.  Florida       766
8.  Indiana       629
9.  Georgia       462
10. Pennsylvania  425

[djkimmel]

Top 10 Cities in Michigan:

1.  Grand Rapids 1,569
2.  Lansing        575
3.  Livonia        471
4.  Warren         318
5.  Dearborn       303
6.  Detroit        283
7.  Plainwell      240
8.  Saginaw        230
9.  St Joseph      224
10. Trenton        199

All of you in Grand Rapids are AWESOME!!

The rest of you are pretty cool too!

[motocross269]

How does the system link the IP address with a location if you are using a Verizon Mobile card or some other type of mobile device.....

900 from Canada?? That must be Bondy stalking..

[bob o]

if you need any help i just so happen to be unemployed. 

[mikesmiph]

Dan, I always said you were the best website leader out there. This just proves it. Fantastic news for you, and the rest of us. I know myself and Colin better step it up. Neither Austrailia or Flushing made the lists. Great job and great news.

[BNL]

Congrats Dan! Keep up the great work!  You run a fantastic site, one of the best in the bass fishing, with a great group of members.

Can't wait to see the future of GLB.

[Firefighter Jeff]

  Yep, looks like I need to work on the Indiana numbers  !!!!  lolol   

[River Rat]

Congratulations my friend!!!

[bassfan586]

Congrats Dan.  I always give out the site when I can.

[djkimmel]

Congrats Dan.  I always give out the site when I can.

That means a ton to me - thanks!

[djkimmel]

  Yep, looks like I need to work on the Indiana numbers  !!!!  lolol   

I actually worry late at night wondering why my Indiana numbers aren't going up? Illinois came out of nowhere a few months ago and just blew right by followed by Ohio? Either something else is preoccupying them or there's something special I have to do to make Indiana anglers happy?!? See what you can do, would you?

[djkimmel]

Dan, I always said you were the best website leader out there. This just proves it. Fantastic news for you, and the rest of us. I know myself and Colin better step it up. Neither Austrailia or Flushing made the lists. Great job and great news.

I was more than a little surprised Australia hasn't cracked the top ten yet, let alone Flushing?? If you could both do something about that, I sure would appreciate it!!

[djkimmel]

How does the system link the IP address with a location if you are using a Verizon Mobile card or some other type of mobile device.....

900 from Canada?? That must be Bondy stalking..

I don't know exactly how that works. I'm sure if I did some research I could find out. Some of it is best guess the software does. I'm sure a lot depends on the type of service and how Internet access is controlled from the various countries and zones. I'm also sure Google will continue to hold all their real secrets close to their vests and not tell me even if I ask real nice.

There are fair amount of 'non-Bondy' Canadians who visit the site more and more regularly. And I thank them for that. I may provide a 'Canadian' language version of the website someday just to get more of them!

[Mojo]

Well Dan - Right about now....... you know who would be chiming in with some grand grandt wise crack about now ... ......

Roses red on my spinnerbait, violets a good color on St Clair too ........
From D'twoit to Australia - noone provides for the fishing community like you .........

[Durand Dan]

  Yep, looks like I need to work on the Indiana numbers  !!!!  lolol   

I actually worry late at night wondering why my Indiana numbers aren't going up? Illinois came out of nowhere a few months ago and just blew right by followed by Ohio? Either something else is preoccupying them or there's something special I have to do to make Indiana anglers happy?!? See what you can do, would you?

I've been working in Ohio since mid Feburary and try to get people to check out the site.

[djkimmel]

So... it's you causing the Ohio thing... So who's responsible in Illinois then?

[djkimmel]

if you need any help i just so happen to be unemployed. 

Though I know very little about having actual employees and it kind of scares me I wish I could hire some of the unemployed. Really. I'm starting with trying to keep myself paying the bills first anyway. And once I get that figured out, I'll see where I can go from there. Good luck with the job hunt.

[djkimmel]

Thanks again to all of you who keep this a fun place to hang out and find out stuff and such. And if you do recommend to other people, that's so much better. I'll see what I can do to say thanks other ways. I really do want to.