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HOW BIG IS THE LAGO COLONY WEB SITE? |
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March 3, 2009 |
| The Lago Colony web site was launched on December 22, 2004. If you would like to see the web site as it first appeared on that day CLICK HERE. |
| If you looked at the web site as it first appeared you will see a lot of changes and also that it has grown. |
| Now, let me give you some of the statistics on the size of the web site. |
| The web site today has 17,845 pages and it continues to grow as information is sent to me. That count was as of today, the 3rd of March 2009. There are 12,697 photos on the web site as of today. As for the photos, some of them are duplicate copies so the actual count of individual photos is somewhat less, but still a very substantial number. |
| Over the past 16 months, I am not counting March 2009 in these numbers, the site has been visited an average of 11,022 times each month. That is not to say that many different persons have visited the site, only that the site has been visited that many times. For example, were you to view the site five times in a month, that would register as 5 visitors, although it would be the same person visiting the site. It is impossible to tell from the numbers how many different persons have visited the site. |
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The HIT COUNTER shows that, on average, when a person visits the site they look at 13.42 pages on each visit. |
| Think of it this way. (REMEMBERING, SOME PAGES ARE LONG SO YOU HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN, OTHERS ARE SHORT AND NO SCROLLING IS REQUIRED TO SEE THE ENTIRE PAGE.) If you took 10 seconds to look at each page it would take you 49 hours to look at all the pages on this web site. |
| So how big is the web site? It is very, very big and it grows larger each month. Lets see how big it can get, just keep sending in the information and I will keep adding it to the web site. It is up to you. |
| You may wonder how long it has taken to develop the web site. I began about a month before I published the site so I have been working on it since November 2004. That is 53 months or 1590 days, more or less. I spent a lot of time on the development and in the first year, probably 4 to 6 hours a day. Now I spend about 2 hours a day checking the site and making sure the links are all working and answering emails with questions about the site. I would say on average I have spent 3 hours a day on the site, so there are around 4,770 hours worth of work put in on the site over a period of a little over four years. This time also includes a lot of time learning how to do things on the web. It is my part time retirement job and I love it. It keeps me busy and I have learned a lot about using a computer. |
| What I really find interesting are the people I hear from who have never been to Aruba but are interested in Aruba and have connections to Aruba and Lago. Some are grandchildren of people who worked there and say there remember their grandfather or grandmother telling them stories about Aruba. Some have people who are interest in the birds of Aruba, some are shell collectors and like the photos of the shells, some have an interest in the French escapees from Devils Island. Most of the people I hear from are like me, they lived in Aruba or they live there now. Some I knew, some I only remember in name and others were there before me or after me, but I like to hear from them all and try and answer their emails. |
| Now that you know how large the site is; if you want to take a look there is a weeks worth of work plus 9 hours overtime to look at the entire site, so have fun. |