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It is intended to write quarterly update reports for the Journal starting with the July 2016 issue (v24n3). To make web links easier to follow, there will be a short URL link (see heading) to this page and each report will be show below with active links. Links quoted in other articles in that issue may also be given. The QR code links to this page and may be used in the printed Journal to make accessing this page easier.

Draft Notes

for v29n4 Nov 21 - Jan 22

This report covers the six months to September 2021. As has been the case throughout the year, we are averaging around 15 visitors to the web site each day, and the number of site pages viewed is holding steady at about 100 daily. Most of the visitors are from, in descending order, the US, Japan, GB, China and Canada, and that has been the sequence since Japan zoomed up the chart from nowhere to 2nd place in 2018. First visitors for the period were from Bolivia, Macau and Samoa, although there have been no new countries since June.

for v29n2 May 2021

The average number of visitors to the website has been consistent, in the mid-teens, for the past 12 months, but the number of web pages viewed by those visitors suddenly doubled in January and February to over 200. During March the page views settled back down again to the low 100s. This is probably influenced by Kurt's tweets.

We have three new flags, with single visits from Malawi in December, New Caledonia in February and Tonga in March.

for v29n1 Feb 2021

There is little to report in the last quarter with average daily visits rising to 19 and daily page views to 114. As this is being written in December 2020, I can offer a report on the year in which we have had almost 5,000 visitors (an increase of around 1,000 on 2019) and 38,000 page views (27,000 in 2019).
The total of countries now stands at 130, Mauritius the new addition. There were 11 new countries in 2020, 19 in 2019 - this will presumably continue to diminish as visitors from new countries are increasingly difficult to attract. We are still missing 111 countries according to Flag Counter, ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia (the same two countries I cited in May 2019 when we were 138 short).

for v28n4 Nov 2020

Visitor numbers to the FICC website have stabilised at higher levels after the addition of Kurt's twitter feed. The 30-day average currently stands at 16 visitors per day viewing 89 pages. The list of visiting countries now totals 129, with Kuwait and Qatar the latest.

for v28n3 Aug 2020

The site has had a refresh, following an initiative by Kurt Streepy (ficc #18). The home page has been simplified, the unused chat group removed, the colour scheme toned down and Kurt's frequent tweets on @First_Stamps are now embedded.
Kurt's efforts have resulted in a rise activity on the site which reached a new high of 71 visitors on 26th April, 47 of whom were from India. We are currently averaging 14 daily visitors looking at 138 site pages (9 and 38 respectively in the last report).
Members are encouraged to follow @First_Stamps on Twitter. [TIM - this line might be superfluous if it is already in the editorial or elsewhere.]

for v28n2 May 2020

Web traffic
Visitor numbers and page views have both dropped significantly in recent months and the averages now stand at 9 visitors and 38 page views each day. In January we passed the milestone of 10,000 visitors since the current count began in July 2016 (as explained previously, repeat visits from the same device in the same week are not counted).

The list of countries logging in has extended to 124, now more than half of the total of 241. New visitors have come from Albania, Jordan, Moldova and Trinidad & Tobago.

for v28n1 February 2020

This article is available online at tinyurl.com/ficcreport. Type the address into your browser and the online version has all the links in place, so from there you can just click.

We have had visits from Palestine, Burma, Barbados and Yemen, bringing the country total to 119 - nearly half the total of 241 recognised by our logging service.

for v27n4 November 2019

This article is available online at tinyurl.com/ficcreport. Type the address into your browser and the online version has all the links in place, so from there you can just click.

Web traffic
This continued to slow for the last quarter. Average daily visitor numbers now stand at 10, and average daily page views at 38.

We have had visits from Cyprus, El Salvador and Brunei, bringin the country total to 112, out of a possible 241.

for v27n3 August 2019

This article is available online at tinyurl.com/ficcreport. Type the address into your browser and the online version has all the links in place, so from there you can just click.

Web traffic
It has been a slow few months as regards visitors to the FICC web site. Average daily visitor numbers have dropped from 12 to 11 and average daily page views from 90 to 63.

for v27n2 May 2019

This article is available online at tinyurl.com/ficcreport — this has changed as Google has discontinued its "short URL" service. Type that address into your browser and the online version has all the links in place, so from there you can just click.

Web site traffic
At the time of writing, the site is averaging 12 visitors a day who, among them, look at 90 web pages. We have now had a visitor from every US state, with North Dakota completing the list. The new countries since the last report are Belize and Uzbekistan bringing the total to 102. This leaves 138 countries from which we have never had a visitor, ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia.

for v27n1 February 2019

This article is available online at www.goo.gl/hkVqST [that no longer works - use tinyurl.com/ficcreport instead]. Type that address into your browser and the online version has all the links in place, so from there you can just click.

As the last report was written, the site was experiencing the highest ever level of daily page views by a factor of three and the total at the end of the day was 624. Levels remained high for more than a month but never exceeded 17th September. Page views have now dropped again to previous levels. There is a graph showing the weeks of hyperactivity on the web version of this report.

We also had our 5,000th visitor on 6th November (the visitor count was explained in v26n1). In v26n3 it was reported that we had been visited by all but 5 of the USA states and travellers were encouraged to fill the gaps. There is now only one missing state remaining, North Dakota.

New flags since the last report are UAE, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Zimbabwe,Luxembourg and our 100th country, Laos.

for v26n4 November 2018