Birch Street Web reaches a milestone (sort of)

The Birch Street Web today passed the 5,000 visitor mark. Hooray!

So what does that mean exactly? Well... not much, but it's a cool number anyway.

Back on Nov. 23, 2008, we started using a service called Site Meter to measure usage of this web site. It counts each visit to the site and records certain information like how many pages the visitors look at and what links they follow. It shows where they logged in from (or, really, where the internet address they're using is registered, which is not always their actual location).

In the 14 months since the count began, members of our extended family have stopped by the Birch Street Web more than 5,000 times. (We have no idea how many visits there were in the 20 months before that.) Some check in several times a day, others only occasionally, but each visit is greatly appreciated.

Here's a Site Meter chart of visits in the past year. It's great to see participation is generally increasing.


Our 5,000th visit was recorded at 7:02 p.m. EST/4:02 PST today (Jan. 23, 2010) from an internet connection registered to Comcast in Belmont, Calif. Maybe you know who you are. If so, please let us know by leaving a comment on this post. You'll win... um... the honor of knowing you pushed us to a nice big round number!

Thanks for visiting - and remember to keep in touch!