pmhoran
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I guess I am just confused about the why's involved.
As some of you know, I had to do a complete reworking of my long established web site ... ended up using XOOPs.
The site was "sort of" offline for a couple weeks ... I had put up a page saying the site was being revamped with an explanation. So it wasn't a "dead" site. Although I now have an option for visitors to become members ... all the information & pages I had available on the old site are available to all visitors still on the new incarnation.
But before the "downtime" & revamp ... I was getting 4000 to 6000 unique visitors a month. And its been pretty darned consistent for the past 5 of the 8 years the sites been online. No huge numbers but not bad for a personal site ;-)
Suddenly in January I got about 2500 unique visitors ... February was down to a little over 900 ... and if the trend continues from the indications of the first 2 days this month it looks like I might reach the 2000 mark again.
I am just confused about what might cause such a mass exodus away from my website. I could understand it if it was just those 10 days or so I was reworking the site ... but apparently even those visiting just the main page suffered a dramatic reduction in the number of visits. And then there was the significantly few visitors in January before the problem ... and that is just after I changed to a new web host ... but that should not have affected anything because the move was "seamless".
Anyone have any thoughts or input that might unconfuse me??
Thanks
Peter
P.S. The most activity I seem to be getting are from the search engine spiders or crawlers or ???. They sure seem to be doing an efficient job of finding and grabbing the new page URLs ... which is a good thing :dance:
As some of you know, I had to do a complete reworking of my long established web site ... ended up using XOOPs.
The site was "sort of" offline for a couple weeks ... I had put up a page saying the site was being revamped with an explanation. So it wasn't a "dead" site. Although I now have an option for visitors to become members ... all the information & pages I had available on the old site are available to all visitors still on the new incarnation.
But before the "downtime" & revamp ... I was getting 4000 to 6000 unique visitors a month. And its been pretty darned consistent for the past 5 of the 8 years the sites been online. No huge numbers but not bad for a personal site ;-)
Suddenly in January I got about 2500 unique visitors ... February was down to a little over 900 ... and if the trend continues from the indications of the first 2 days this month it looks like I might reach the 2000 mark again.
I am just confused about what might cause such a mass exodus away from my website. I could understand it if it was just those 10 days or so I was reworking the site ... but apparently even those visiting just the main page suffered a dramatic reduction in the number of visits. And then there was the significantly few visitors in January before the problem ... and that is just after I changed to a new web host ... but that should not have affected anything because the move was "seamless".
Anyone have any thoughts or input that might unconfuse me??
Thanks
Peter
P.S. The most activity I seem to be getting are from the search engine spiders or crawlers or ???. They sure seem to be doing an efficient job of finding and grabbing the new page URLs ... which is a good thing :dance:
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