Report for the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society Board
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Prepared by William R. Eubank & Russell Crump

July 31, 1999

Steady, positive growth, on a quarterly basis, from April 1996 to July 1999 is shown by the chart below. In general, a site is considered successful when it has 10,000 'hits' per month. That point was passed in October of 1997. The SFRH&MS is now approaching 50,000 'hits' per month.

There were 243 visits per day during July 1999. During the month visits were made by 3,233 unique IP addresses - which roughly equals that many different individuals. 7,560 discrete visits were made in July - meaning that visitors are coming back on a regular basis.

PROJECTION: Looking at the ratio between July 1997 / July 1998 and July of 1998 / July 1999, it is not unreasonable to expect accesses to top 100,000 accesses per month sometime in the next twelve months.

Plans that may accelerate this growth:

This site has added many materials unique to the history of the Santa Fe Railway. These include: Meades, The Splinters, Evaluation Photos, Junction Records, written and oral history reports, and audio files. The site is becoming a research destination.

Plans are being made to add approximately 1,500 PDF files of the Folio 211 Santa Fe 4 Freight Car Diagram book.

In general, there are less accesses in summer than in other times of the year - July is usually a low access month - who wants to be in using a computer when there are so many outdoor activities? Cooler weather and the starting of school in August marks the renewal of growth.

ENTRY PAGE (JULY 1999):

top / index page         	1,015 entries	2,653 total visits in July

EasternArchive/Photos		879 entries	1,008 total visits in July

Warbonnet/index			364 entries	   395 total visits in July

current.htm			261 entries	   261 total visits in July

companystore/			256 entries	   277 total visits in July




REFERRING DOMAINS (JULY 1999):		OTHERS			MORE:

altavista.com		385		metpro.com		buzz.net

ink.yahoo.com		228		goto.com		dogpile.com

search.msn.com		137		search.excite.com	kcmo.com

steamlocamotive.com	139		primenet.com		trains.com

ribbonrail.com		125		google.netscape.com	Mp3board.com

netfind.aol.com		124		hotbot.com		railserve.com

CONTRIBUTORS WITHIN THE LAST YEAR ( AUGUST 1998 - JULY 1999).

Bob Burton, Matt Lee, Russell Crump, Joseph A. Cammalleri, D.K. Spencer, Sam Bailey, Kevin Kemp, Kevin Kneisley, Evan Stair, Richard L Dorman, Stan Kistler, Karen Walk, William R. Eubank,Lou Nigro, John Palmer, and others..

NEW SECTIONS ADDED TO THE SITE SINCE AUGUST 1998

August 11, 1998			Splinters Volume 12

September 20, 1998		Train Orders

October 25, 1998		Oral History

November 11, 1998		Eastern Oklahoma

December 13, 1998		Plains Division

January 10, 1999		Junction Records

February 21, 1999		Aerial Photos

May 13, 1999			1890s

July 27, 1999			1900s, 1910s, 

August 1, 1999			Folio Freight Car Diagrams

RENEWALS & NEW MEMBERS THROUGH THE WEB (Aug 1998 - July 1999)

These numbers reflect the E-mail form membership application on the web. They do not indicate actual collection of dues - they are not accounting numbers. The "print and mail" application form was accessed approximately 725 times - lots more potential members!

Month/Year	Renewals	New Members	Total
August 1998	2	3	5
September 1998	2	2	4
October 1998	8	14	22
November 1998	4	8	12
December 1998	6	5	11
January 1999	16	7	23
February 1999	12	12	24
March 1999	14	7	21
April 1999	10	5	15
May 1999	2	3	5
June 1999	12	5	17
July 1999	4	11	15
	92	82	174

WHERE ARE THEY FROM? 79.3% USA 20.7% OVERSEAS

USA: TX 17; CA 17; AZ 11; FL 9; IL 8; KS 7; NM 6; PA 4; MD 4; MN 4; CO 4; TN 4;

OH 3; VA 3; NE 3; MO 3; NV 3; IA 2; NY 2; NJ 2; WA 2; OK 2; UT 2; IN 2;

OVERSEAS: Australia 8; Netherlands 6; England 4; New Zealand 3; Argentina 2; Luxembourg 2; Norway 2; Switzerland 2; Canada 2; South Africa 1; Isle of Man 1; Finland 1; France 1; Austria 1

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