{"id":1418,"date":"2007-01-06T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T01:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2007-01-07T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T19:59:23","slug":"16916337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"16.9 Million, and the Hits Just Keep on Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16,916,337<\/strong> &#8211; that&#8217;s the number of &#8220;hits&#8221; at www.fastpitchwest.com during 2006.   (that&#8217;s &#8220;hits&#8221; on the site, not at the plate)<\/p>\n<p>From time to time, we hear people say that fastpitch is dying out, but the remarkable increase in traffic at Fastpitchwest suggests anything but.   For those interested, here are some of the internet &#8220;traffic numbers&#8221; at Fastpitchwest over the past four (4) years. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Year          Hits<\/strong><br \/>\n2003          3,715,047<br \/>\n2004         10,764,048<br \/>\n2005         13,969,123<br \/>\n2006         16,916,337<\/p>\n<p>Add to these numbers, more than a million hits over at Maddy&#8217;s Photo site, www.maddysphotos.com or roughly half million hits at Ballparkradio, www.ballparkradio.com in the last half of 2006, taking the trio to more than 18 million hits.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best measurements of the growth is in what is referred to as &#8220;unique visitors&#8221;, which measures the number of different people (computers) visiting the site, as opposed to just the number of hits on the website.   Those numbers have quadrupled since 2002.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Year         Unique visitors <\/strong><br \/>\n2003         39,441 annual\/3,286 avg. per month<br \/>\n2004         77,641 annual\/6,470 avg. per month<br \/>\n2005         106,023 annual\/8,835 avg. per month<br \/>\n2006         160,186 annual\/13,349 avg. per month<\/p>\n<p>We humbly say &#8220;thank you&#8221; for your continued readership and loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nJim Flanagan, Editor, Fastpitchwest<br \/>\nMaddy Flanagan, Photographer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16,916,337 &#8211; that&#8217;s the number of &#8220;hits&#8221; at www.fastpitchwest.com during 2006. (that&#8217;s &#8220;hits&#8221; on the site, not at the plate) From time to time, we hear people say that fastpitch is dying out, but the remarkable increase in traffic at Fastpitchwest suggests anything but. For those interested, here are some of the internet &#8220;traffic numbers&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}