The Scheme’s webstats are increasing rapidly at the moment. For January 2006, we served over 1,394,772 pages for our 3 websites:
- Finds.org.uk
- findsdatabase.org.uk
- pastexplorers.org.uk
This time last year, we were only serving around 400,000 pages. Looking at the webstats, we don’t have a huge amount of visitors, we’re well indexed by an array of search engines, and we have a vast quantity of keywords that can find information at our site from google. This is possibly down to the work we’ve been doing to create a quality numismatic resource, and the creation of pages advising on data transfer, conservation etc.
You can see all these figures online from the main finds site. Go to the site map and look for webstats at the foot of the page. The success of course comes at a price. We’ve paid for 20GB of bandwidth per month, this has been exceeded by quite a bit with 31 GB served this past month. So to compensate for this, we’re moving our servers and trying to find an unlimited bandwith host. Should be possible I think.
As for developing our website, I’ll be transferring the underlying design over to
structured HTML and then making the cascading stylesheets drive the presented design. If I have time, I’ll extend the functionality to allow you to personalise the aesthethics. Maybe choose your displayed object etc.
We’ll also be able to make further use of the XML we can now serve as RSS feeds and also make changes to the accessibility of the site. That reminds me to enter the Jodi Mattes awards before the deadline is up!
OpenCalais helped to tag this with: HTML • search engines • XML
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