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#7-10 Blackberry Phones
#6 Opera
#5 Mozilla Compatible Agent
#4 Chrome
#3 Safari
#2 Firefox (my personal choice)
#1 Internet Explorer
Check out the use during the year in this video!
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Showing posts with label recap. Show all posts
One last recap of 2010
#7-10 Blackberry Phones
#6 Opera
#5 Mozilla Compatible Agent
#4 Chrome
#3 Safari
#2 Firefox (my personal choice)
#1 Internet Explorer
Check out the use during the year in this video!
Top 10 Visits by Country
As mentioned earlier in the week, we had visitors from 130 different countries or territories. While the majority by a long shot are from the United States, here is a round up of the top 10 visits by country in 2010:
#1 United States
#2 Canada
#3 United Kingdom
#4 Thailand
#5 Australia
#6 Japan
#7 Turkey
#8 Ireland
#9 Germany
#10 South Korea
Top 10 Referrers of 2010
Why they drove visitors to our site-list.
No. 10: It was either you or Voodoo Donuts.
No. 9: Wait, we did what?
No. 8: สิ่งที่เราควรทำอย่างไร
No. 7: I guess the words "disease" and "porn" are closely related.
(Google images)
(Google images)
No. 6: Because we don't update during our insomnia.
(Golf Course Industry)
(Golf Course Industry)
No. 5: Even we're tired of listening to Kaminski.
No. 4: @turfdiseases needed more followers.
(Twitter)
(Twitter)
No. 3: We ran out of money to produce more Frank Rossi videos.
(TurfNet)
(TurfNet)
No. 2: This is what we do, dumbass.
(Google)
(Google)
...and the number 1 reason our referrers said they drove traffic to our site...
No. 1: Because we're trying to drive the old people from our own site.
(Facebook)
(Facebook)
Turf Diseases 2011 Recap
Now that 2010 season is finally over, it is time for us here at Turf Diseases to recap some of the highlights from the past year. This week I will bring you some "Top Lists" for the website. I am happy to say that we have branched out beyond just what happens here in the United States. To the right you can see that although our focus audience is here in the states, we are reached 130 countries/territories in 2010.
Over 57,000 visitors (over 24,000 unique visitors) frequented the site last year (figure below). It was clear that there were a few hot spots in terms of times to visit. Needless to say it is obvious that things were tough in July and August and this caused many of you to I assume check out what was happening around your region and with other golf course superintendents as well.
The 2010 Top 10 List...
Some other things of note coming up this week include my version of Letterman's Top 10 for the following categories:
Top referrers to the website in 2010 (some of you made the list!)
Top Posts of 2010 (based on your visits)
Top Visits by Country (see how your country stacks up)
Special Turf Nerd Post (you could probably do without seeing this one)
What the future holds...
The 2010 season marked the first full year of our existence and we couldn't be more happy with the results. In fact, the success of this little blog site has inspired me to expand in 2011 with the hopes of something big by 2012 (sponsors beware). If you have any ideas on how we can improve the site (big or small), please feel free to share it with us in the comments below!
A Successful Inaugural Year
Well we have made it through our first year (really only about 7 months) of posting for the disease blog and overall I think that it has been a big success. Overall we had just about 150 posts from the turf faculty. These ranged from quick updates about things around the region, to more in-depth research results, to a few funny stories and naughty pictures.
2009 Recap
In our first full month, we had over 2000 visits and as you might expect the peak period of activity was in August and September when turf diseases are at their worst (or best depending on whose perspective you are coming from).
One of the changes I made to our tracking was to install Google Analytics towards the end of the year (mid December to be exact). So the numbers we are getting from are not overwhelming, but they do shed some light on just how far our reach has been not just in the United States but globally.
Global Reach
Although this data only represents the last 2 weeks of the year (since switching to google analytics) we did manage to reach 640 people from 25 different countries and territories (shown in green)!
Traffic Sources
We definitely want to thank all of those that have added turfdiseases to their own blogs and have driven traffic to the site. This site is built for the sole purpose of informing golf course superintendents about problems that may be on the rise in their area. A special shout-out goes to TurfNet as they seem to have driven a lot of traffic to the site in the past year (not to mention in the last two weeks.)
I would also like to thank the folks at GCSAA and Golf Course Management for their mentions of the blog.
A Look Towards 2010
Towards the end of 2009, you probably noticed that we had less than consistent postings. This was expected as the disease problems started to slow down in most areas and teaching responsibilities and conference season picked up for most of us. While we can't promise a post every day of the week, I can assure you that next year we plan to get back into the swing of things.
In addition to our routine postings about current disease topics, look for some special "guest" posts from colleagues in the United States and other parts of the world. With the apparent interest in the site from other countries, and upcoming international trips for some of the primary pathologists on the blog, we plan to initiate an "International" posting date during the year. Again, this will not occur every week, but weekend posts have been reserved for postings from other parts of the world. Just some potential regions include posts from Asia, Argentina, The United Kingdom, France, and South Africa just to name some.
As always, I wish to thank the readers of the blog and ENCOURAGE you to participate publicly or privately. Although the authors would like to get out to every section of their region to find out exactly what is going on, sometimes this just isn't possible. So send us an email or photo and let us know what is happening in your area during the year. Your information may prove invaluable for a fellow golf course superintendent in your region or another part of the world!
Signing off from 2009...(looking forward to getting my "drink on" tonight). CHEERS!
2009 Recap
Our Visitors
In our first full month, we had over 2000 visits and as you might expect the peak period of activity was in August and September when turf diseases are at their worst (or best depending on whose perspective you are coming from).
One of the changes I made to our tracking was to install Google Analytics towards the end of the year (mid December to be exact). So the numbers we are getting from are not overwhelming, but they do shed some light on just how far our reach has been not just in the United States but globally.
Global Reach
Although this data only represents the last 2 weeks of the year (since switching to google analytics) we did manage to reach 640 people from 25 different countries and territories (shown in green)!
Traffic Sources
We definitely want to thank all of those that have added turfdiseases to their own blogs and have driven traffic to the site. This site is built for the sole purpose of informing golf course superintendents about problems that may be on the rise in their area. A special shout-out goes to TurfNet as they seem to have driven a lot of traffic to the site in the past year (not to mention in the last two weeks.)
I would also like to thank the folks at GCSAA and Golf Course Management for their mentions of the blog.
A Look Towards 2010
Towards the end of 2009, you probably noticed that we had less than consistent postings. This was expected as the disease problems started to slow down in most areas and teaching responsibilities and conference season picked up for most of us. While we can't promise a post every day of the week, I can assure you that next year we plan to get back into the swing of things.
In addition to our routine postings about current disease topics, look for some special "guest" posts from colleagues in the United States and other parts of the world. With the apparent interest in the site from other countries, and upcoming international trips for some of the primary pathologists on the blog, we plan to initiate an "International" posting date during the year. Again, this will not occur every week, but weekend posts have been reserved for postings from other parts of the world. Just some potential regions include posts from Asia, Argentina, The United Kingdom, France, and South Africa just to name some.
As always, I wish to thank the readers of the blog and ENCOURAGE you to participate publicly or privately. Although the authors would like to get out to every section of their region to find out exactly what is going on, sometimes this just isn't possible. So send us an email or photo and let us know what is happening in your area during the year. Your information may prove invaluable for a fellow golf course superintendent in your region or another part of the world!
Signing off from 2009...(looking forward to getting my "drink on" tonight). CHEERS!
