Maine Rose Society Web Site
By Sari Hou
Maine Rose Society Member
(August 2003)
Most of you probably know that Great Works Internet, GWI, donates 10MB of web site space to us to host our web site (www.mainerosesoceity.com). After receiving the award from American Rose Society for the award of the local king of the web site. GWI service no longer can accommodate our web site because the traffic generates by the award so we switched to Yahoo web server to continue having a web site for the society.
I like to share some interesting statistics for the month this March before winning the local king of the web site.
General Summary:
Successful requests for the month of March: 21,309
Average successful requests per day: 687
Successful requests for pages: 5,358
Average successful requests for pages per day: 172
.com 33.69% (Commercial)
.net 30.31% (Networks)
.uk 7.27% (United Kingdom)
.edu 2.69%
.org 1.75%
.ca 1.60%
.mil 0.30% (US Military)
.gov 0.14% (US Government)
Other counties include Denmark (0.29%), Poland (0.23%), Japan (0.22%), Italy (0.14%), United Arab Emirates (0.12%), Saudi Arabia (0.08%), Austria (0.08%), South Africa (0.08%), Australia (0.08%). Countries listed under 0.08% include Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Bermuda, Germany Belgium, New Zealand, Singapore, Brazil, Croatia, Finland, India, Portugal, Estonia, Hungary, Greece, Malaysia, Ireland, Spain, Seychelles, Arpanet, Columbia and Thailand.
This data provides food for
thought.
It makes sense that people want to know facts about growing roses –
number 1 on
the hit list, and discuss these with others who know –number 3. We all
want
hardy roses –number 4, but why do people look at Joan and Roger
Gotlibson’s
Rose Garden more than others, even though its in the middle of the page
of
member’s gardens? Could it be because they not only have beautiful
thumbnail
photo’s that enlarge when you click on them, but also describe them
well? Maybe
Joan and Roger are on to something here! What would happen to the
statistics if
we linked photos of Clarence Rhode’s Rose Garden to his article Are Rose Bushes Like Vintage
Wine? Would
this make his garden number 1?
People
like our Plant Sale – number 9, and maybe will attend. Perhaps we
should ask
people at the sale about how they learned of it when we are there. The
MRS
Archive Project just went on line on March 23 and already checks in at
number
13. It looks like people are interested in Clair Holman’s photos and
newspaper
clippings about the early history of the MRS. Mr. Holman sure did have
a
beautiful garden and grew beautiful roses.
How
about the places visitors come from – England, US military, Poland,
Japan, New
Zealand, etc. There really are a large number of rose enthusiasts in
the world!
This
May, Clarence Rhodes suggested to me to put up a page of rose doctor
online so
members could make reference to in growing roses. I
wish to thank the complete research done by Jerry Cinnamon who
provided me with the list. We now have
a page we can check out rose problems.
If
you have more suggestions, comments, and
suggestions, please let me know and help us make a more attractive web
site.