NatureNorth.com's Visitor Statistics

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 2008 and 2009 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.

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