WEBSITE VISITOR NUMBERS FOR HALF-YEARS 2017 - 2020

At the end of 2016 I installed Google Analytics on the website, and I have had visitor statistics for the site available since the start of 2017. So I now have statistics available for the past 3½ years.

The United Nations recognizes 195 countries in the world. However, Google Analytics assigns a "country code" to 240+ "Countries & Dependent Territories". My "Country" statistics below are based on those Google Analytics codes for Countries & Territories, rather than being restricted to the United Nations list of countries. I mention this to explain why some of the numbers below actually exceed the official number of countries in the world.

Since the installation of the record-keeping software there has been a steady increase recorded for the number of visitors to the website. Below are the figures for each half-year of record-keeping.

2017 JANUARY - JUNE = 10,420 Visitors from 2,567 Cities in 132 Countries

These figures represent the starting point for all record-keeping for my website.

2017 JULY - DECEMBER = 17,614 Visitors from 3,836 Cities in 152 Countries

The visitor number represents a 69% increase over the previous 6 months.

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2018 JANUARY - JUNE = 29,944 Visitors from 5,167 Cities in 175 Countries

The visitor number represents a 70% increase over the previous 6 months.

2018 JULY - DECEMBER = 31,509 Visitors from 5,378 Cities in 174 Countries

The visitor number represents a 5% increase over the previous 6 months.

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2019 JANUARY - JUNE = 40,329 Visitors from 6,143 Cities in 182 Countries

The visitor number represents a 28% increase over the previous 6 months.

2019 JULY - DECEMBER = 47,761 Visitors from 6,211 Cities in 189 Countries

The visitor number represents a 18% increase over the previous 6 months.

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2020 JANUARY - JUNE = 73,055 Visitors from 8,198 Cities in 197 Countries

The visitor number represents a 52% increase over the previous 6 months.

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For the entire 3½ year period there were 250,632 Visitors from 13,359 different Cities in 218 "Countries and Dependent Territories".

There are only 8 official "countries", as recognized by the United Nations, from which my website has not had any visitors as far as I can establish. Those 8 official countries with no website visitors at all are:

Andorra, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Marshall Islands, North Korea, San Marino, Sao Tome & Principe, and Vatican City.

Every other country on earth is represented in the above visitor numbers to my website.

It has taken 3½ years to have one quarter million visitors to the website. It will be interesting to see how long it will take for the next quarter million visitors to come to the website.

FN