Site Stats

You may have noticed at the bottom of the page is a "SiteMeter" image/link. Several months ago I decided to track the number of "hits" this blog gets (the number of times people arrive at the site and how many pages they look at).

As of this morning there have been about 3400 hits on the site, for a total of more than 5000 page views (that's where a single visitor clicks around on more than one article, or perhaps looks at older articles in the archives, indexed in the right column). An average week sees 25-35 hits (I get a weekly report from SiteMeter).

A cool feature that SiteMeter provides is the ability to see where visitors are coming from (for bmpcncmuz that includes Great Britain, Peru, Australia and Canada, as well as most every state in the US).

One can also see what brought a visitor to the site. In many cases that is a search. Some recent searches that people performed which in turn brought them to the blog include: "jody lindh" whose songs the Aerie Singers have performed this spring; "words to joy in the morning sleeth" an anthem the adult choir did last year; "chords santo santo santo mi corazon te adora" a song that the Prophets have led at FirstLight several times; "emory underwood" whose photos we used in the bell festival article this week.

I find that just fascinating. I figured church folks would use the site to learn what was going on musically in the life of our church and there does seem to be plenty of that (users based in the Asheville area using Bellsouth and Charter). But more surprising is the incredible number of folks who stumble onto the site having searched for information about a song that we have used in worship, or a composer whose music we have used.

Another tidbit: There is a comment on the Easter Sunday music article from the composer of the choir anthem at 11AM. Mark L. Williams thanked us for using his piece.