Friday, April 24, 2009

Day 100 – 4/24 – At Sea

We are happy to have a sea day today, after the 4 port days in a row. There still is a busy schedule for the day. They must have had a lot of items saved up from the days in port.

It is hard to believe that in just one week the cruise will be over for those passengers who are doing the “basic” world cruise without the 10-day Scandinavian extension. I believe there are about 130 of us doing the longer 117-day version, so that means about 75% of the people that we know will be leaving the ship in one week. That will likely make it seem strange next week when 3/4th of the people are excited about the “new cruise” and the rest of us will be feeling like the cruise is almost over.

I thought I’d share some facts about our blog. So far we have made 307 postings, including about 400 photos and 45,000 words of text. The blog has had 1724 “hits”, with 4437 page viewings. There has been a range of between 45 and 80 visits each day. 49% of the visits are “direct” (meaning the person entered our specific blog address), 41% came from references on other sites (I have no idea how those references got in place), and 10% came from search engines.

[Updated: 3635 visits from 437 cities and in 58 countries. (I had only read the past month into.)]

We appreciate this level of interest. It is more than we had expected and has kept us faithful in keeping the blog up-to-date with information.

2 comments:

Scott said...

That is that stats only for the last month. So you actually have had 3635 visits, 9487 page views from 58 countries and 437 cities.

Sheree Clem said...

Those stats for 'entering from another site' would most likely be that bloggers like myself www.clemsworldcruise.com have listed you in their 'blogs I follow section', also people like me have been communicating on the Cruise Critic website sharing information of 'world cruiser' blogs, listing your website on cruise critic boards etc. To have that many hits/followers should tell you that your text has been well worth reading and perhaps there's a post career in writing a best seller for world cruising for you!