At NATURENORTH.COM we've been tracking our site usage through the Google Adsense program since early 2008. We thought it was about time we let our viewers and supporting agencies know how we're doing. So, we worked up this summary of our various articles and sections, and how often each is being viewed. In essence, we're blowing our own horn about how well NatureNorth is doing in our mission to make Manitobans more aware of their natural heritage. We're hoping this might translate into more support and sponsorship that will let us do more!
Thanks to Manitobans!
Several of our major features were made possible by generous grants from the Government of Manitoba (The Sustainable Development Innovations Fund and the Special Conservation Fund). These features are listed separately below. We like to think that this was taxpayers' money well-spent and we think the numbers presented here bear that out. We hear from Manitobans regularly telling us how much they enjoy NatureNorth and we know a lot of teachers use our site and its major features, like the Amphibians of Manitoba, in their classrooms. By the way, if you're an advertiser, business or agency looking to sponsor/support environmental education in Manitoba drop us a line: Contact NatureNorth.
Explanation of Statistics
The Google Adsense (GA) program allows us to make a little money from our content, which helps to support our efforts to create even more content! When a page with an ad on it is loaded by someone's internet browser GA records that as "1 page view". If that person "clicks" on one of the GA ads it earns us, and them, GA, a few pennies. That is recorded for us to view, too. We can assign tracking channels that allows us to monitor the number of times any single page or group of pages is viewed and how much money those pages make. For some of our major sections, such as The Amphibians of Manitoba, we monitor traffic to the opening or entry page for that section, as well as for the entire section (30 pages in the case of the Amphibians section). Records of visitors to a section entry page give us an idea of how many different people are visiting that section, while the records from the entire section let us know roughly how many pages within the section each visitor is viewing. For most of our smaller articles we simply track the total number of page views for all the pages that article encompasses.
Unfortunately, we are not yet able to track the precise origin of all our site visitors. This would give us a better picture of how well we are reaching Manitobans with our information. (We certainly don't mind if people from outside Manitoba are interested in the amazing natural heritage we have here, but our primary focus has always been to make Manitobans more aware of the nature and biodiversity that surrounds them.) Advanced tracking in place on our front page suggests that perhaps 1/3 of our overall traffic comes from Manitoba, another 1/3 from other parts of Canada and about 1/3 from the United States and the rest of the world. Though some of our features that deal specifically with Manitoba flora and fauna (Amphibians, Butterflies, Dragonflies of Manitoba) likely are being viewed more by Manitobans than anyone else.
Table Legend
In the table below the following information is provided: the name of the article or section (with a link to it), the number of pages in the section or article (# p), the date when we started tracking that article (Tracking From), the total number of page views recorded since tracking started (Total Page Views), then the total page views per year and daily averages for recent years separately.
And don't forget, even though we've only had extensive tracking capabilities since 2008, NatureNorth has been online since 1997. So we took some liberties and made some estimates of the total page views for some of our longer running features. You can take these numbers with a grain of salt if you like, but we're pretty proud of how much information we're getting out to Manitobans and to the world.
NatureNorth.com Visitor Statistics |
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Total |
2012 | 2012 | 2013 | 2013 | |||
Article / Section Name |
Tracking From |
Page Views |
Page Views | Daily Avg. | Page Views | Daily Avg. | |
Overall Site | |||||||
NatureNorth Front Page | 2008-04-08 | 36,617 | 8,251 | 23 | 6,680 | 18 | |
Entire Site (>300 p) |
2008-10-07 |
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431,972 | 1,183 | 302,260 | 828 | |
* Estimated All-time: 500 views/day for last 16 years |
>5,000,000 | (We've been online since 1997!) |
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Government Supported Special Projects | |||||||
Amphibians of Manitoba | |||||||
Entry Page |
2008-10-08 |
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8,531 | 23 | 5,959 | 16 | |
Entire Section (30 p) |
2008-04-26 |
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47,808 | 131 | 33,907 | 93 | |
* Estimated over the last 10 years: 100/day |
>365,000 | ||||||
Butterflies of Manitoba | |||||||
Entry Page |
2008-10-23 |
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3,361 | 9 | 1,039 | 3 | |
Entire Section (12 p) |
2008-04-26 |
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9,024 | 25 | 3,021 | 8 | |
* Estimated over the last 8 years: 15/day |
>50,000 | ||||||
Dragonflies of Manitoba | |||||||
Entry Page |
2008-10-24 |
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843 | 2 | 529 | 1 | |
Entire Section (17 p) |
2008-04-14 |
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22,285 | 61 | 12,353 | 34 | |
* Estimated for the last 7 years: 50/day: |
>110,000 | ||||||
Save Our Skinks | |||||||
Entry Page |
2008-10-07 |
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775 | 2 | 722 | 2 | |
Entire Section (14 p) |
2008-04-26 |
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5,469 | 15 | 3,302 | 9 | |
Manitoba Herps Atlas | |||||||
Entry Page | 2011-01-11 |
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3,434 | 9 | 2,518 | 7 | |
Entire Section (12 p) |
2009-06-10 |
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19,289 | 53 | 15,148 | 42 | |
Special Features | |||||||
Free Press Nature Columns (20 p) | 2008-04-08 |
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1,442 | 4 | 1,728 | 5 | |
Gardening articles (assorted, 9 p) | 2009-01-10 |
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5,912 | 16 | 4,191 | 11 | |
Great Gray Owl (1 p) | 2008-10-23 |
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6,132 | 17 | 4,952 | 14 | |
International Biodiversity Day (5 p) | 2008-04-10 |
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5,214 | 14 | 3,222 | 9 | |
Zoo - Assiniboine Park Zoo (4 p) | 2008-04-10 |
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3,743 | 10 | 1,490 | 4 | |
Total |
2012 | 2012 | 2013 | 2013 | |||
Article / Section Name |
Tracking From |
Page Views |
Page Views | Daily Avg. | Page Views | Daily Avg. | |
Spring Articles | |||||||
Spring Issue Page | 2009-03-03 | 10,433 | 2,027 | 6 | 1,332 | 4 | |
Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas Promotion (2 p) | 2009-10-14 | 1,659 | 418 | 1 |
333 | 1 | |
Mourning Cloak Butterfly (2 p) | 2008-04-11 | 39,911 | 10,212 | 28 |
6,379 | 17 | |
Manitoba's Silk moths (2 p) | 2008-04-11 | 16,426 | 3,378 | 9 |
2,002 | 5 | |
Garter Snakes in the Classroom (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 16,589 | 1,589 | 4 |
835 | 2 | |
Silk Moths in the Classroom (1 p) | 2008-04-12 | 4,848 | 909 | 2 |
1,055 | 3 | |
Wood Frogs in the Classroom (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 23,701 | 3,623 | 10 |
2,810 | 8 | |
Blue-spotted Salamander (2 p) | 2008-04-11 | 12,987 | 2,202 | 6 |
1,935 | 5 | |
Narcisse Snake Dens Update Page (1 p) | 2008-04-21 | 120,934 | 22,903 | 63 |
27,478 | 75 | |
Loggerhead Shrikes (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 3,396 | 499 | 1 |
214 | 1 | |
White Suckers (2 p) | 2008-04-11 | 12,991 | 2,218 | 6 |
999 | 3 | |
Wood Frogs (2 p) | 2008-04-11 | 34,166 | 4,908 | 13 |
2,719 | 7 | |
Frog Log (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 3,138 | 303 | 1 |
258 | 1 | |
Blue-eyed Grass (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 43,192 | 6,986 | 19 |
4,290 | 12 | |
Prairie Crocus (3 p) | 2008-04-11 | 23,875 | 6,058 | 17 |
3,891 | 11 | |
Growing Prairie Wildflowers (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 4,986 | 779 | 2 |
461 | 1 | |
Gardening with Native Wildflowers (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 12,356 | 2,112 | 6 |
1,572 | 4 | |
Pink Lady's Slipper (2 p) | 2008-04-11 | 22,478 | 2,974 | 8 |
1,263 | 3 | |
Pussy Willows (3 p) | 2008-04-11 | 24,216 | 3,731 | 10 |
2,002 | 5 | |
Three-flowered Avens (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 4,444 | 747 | 2 |
375 | 1 | |
Violets (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 3,934 | 612 | 2 |
244 | 1 | |
Frog Calls (1 p) | 2008-04-11 | 228,765 | 72,944 | 200 |
53,403 | 146 | |
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Summer Articles | |||||||
Summer Issue page | 2009-03-03 | 5,371 | 1,197 | 3 | 734 | 2 | |
Thatching Ants (1 p) | 2013-05-01 | 258 | 0 | 0 | 258 | 1 | |
Butterfly Gardening (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 3,379 | 646 | 2 | 440 | 1 | |
Giant Water Bug (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 35,538 | 6,973 | 19 | 6,164 | 17 | |
Burn, Prairie, Burn (1 p) | 2013-04-01 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 0 | |
Chimney Swifts (1 p) | 2009-05-04 | 991 | 232 | 1 | 55 | 0 | |
Nocturnal Owl Survey (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 4,787 | 792 | 2 | 148 | 0 | |
Owl Calls (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 44,358 | 15,863 | 43 | 8,398 | 23 | |
Northern Prairie Skink (2 p) | 2008-04-14 | 11,854 | 2,137 | 6 | 620 | 2 | |
Dandelion (2 p) | 2013-05-01 | 183 | 0 | 0 | 183 | 1 | |
Echinacea (2 p) | 2009-01-06 | 5,502 | 1,269 | 3 | 791 | 2 | |
Summer Fruits (7 p) | 2008-04-14 | 41,362 | 7,118 | 20 | 3,422 | 9 | |
Giant Hyssop (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 6,588 | 1,014 | 3 | 790 | 2 | |
Loon Survey (1 p) | 2009-06-10 | 129 | 24 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |
Mixed Grass Prairie (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 3,440 | 968 | 3 | 808 | 2 | |
Monarch Butterfly (2 p) | 2008-04-14 | 8,839 | 2,520 | 7 | 2,059 | 6 | |
Poison Ivy (2 p) | 2008-04-14 | 16,588 | 2,994 | 8 | 2,520 | 7 | |
St. John's Wort (2 p) | 2008-12-01 | 5,695 | 1,775 | 5 | 560 | 2 | |
Forest Tent Caterpillars (2 p) | 2008-04-14 | 1,784 | 320 | 1 | 188 | 1 | |
Wild Edibles (1 p) | 2009-12-09 | 1,039 | 277 | 1 | 266 | 1 | |
Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie (24 p) | 2009-01-01 | 18,752 | 2,246 | 6 | 881 | 2 | |
Tall Grass Prairie (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 10,660 | 2,190 | 6 | 999 | 3 | |
Total |
2012 | 2012 | 2013 | 2013 | |||
Article / Section Name |
Tracking From |
Page Views |
Page Views | Daily Avg. | Page Views | Daily Avg. | |
Fall Articles | |||||||
Fall Issue Page | 2009-03-03 | 6,048 | 813 | 2 | 542 | 1 | |
Asters (10 p) | 2008-04-09 | 19,041 | 2,927 | 8 | 1,317 | 4 | |
Belugas (2 p) | 2013-07-01 | 301 | 160 | 0 | 141 | 0 | |
Fall Colours in the Classroom (1 p) | 2008-04-10 | 2,197 | 225 | 1 | 80 | 0 | |
Fall Colours (2 p) | 2008-04-10 | 12,797 | 2,211 | 6 | 842 | 2 | |
Northern Crayfish (plus Classroom article, 3 p) | 2008-04-09 | 111,204 | 5,981 | 16 | 6,501 | 18 | |
Wild Cucumber (2 p) | 2008-04-10 | 6,761 | 723 | 2 | 890 | 2 | |
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2013-09-01 | 2,263 | 140 | 0 | 2,123 | 6 | |
Manitoba Mosasaurs (1 p) | 2013-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
Night Crawlers (Classroom article, too, 3 p) | 2008-04-09 | 133,377 | 20,362 | 56 | 12,975 | 36 | |
Predictive Modeling (1 p) | 2013-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | |
White Underwing Moth (2 p) | 2008-04-09 | 2,400 | 371 | 1 | 344 | 1 | |
Winter Articles | |||||||
Winter Issue Page | 2009-03-03 | 7,783 | 1,162 | 3 | 861 | 2 | |
Black Spruce (2 p) | 2008-04-14 | 8,449 | 1,397 | 4 | 1,896 | 5 | |
Cougars in Manitoba (2 p) | 2009-01-19 | 33,345 | 10,762 | 29 | 4,626 | 13 | |
Frozen Alive (2 p) | 2008-04-14 | 43,767 | 8,985 | 25 | 7,371 | 20 | |
Goldenrod Gall Fly (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 14,680 | 2,160 | 6 | 1,505 | 4 | |
Roughed Grouse (3 p) | 2008-04-14 | 21,677 | 5,689 | 16 | 6,563 | 18 | |
Western Hognose Snake Study (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 4,091 | 404 | 1 | 247 | 1 | |
Wildlife of Omand's Creek (3 p) | 2008-04-14 | 2,591 | 285 | 1 | 249 | 1 | |
Painted Turtle Blog (2 p) | 2013-10-01 | 287 | 0 | 0 | 287 | 1 | |
Snow Snakes (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 25,322 | 3,354 | 9 | 3,512 | 10 | |
Tracks in the Snow in the Classroom (1 p) | 2008-04-14 | 2,503 | 253 | 1 | 287 | 1 | |
Tracks in the Snow (20 p) | 2008-04-14 | 144,102 | 14,988 | 41 | 8,506 | 23 | |
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2013-06-14 | 477 | 172 | 0 | 305 | 1 |