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In October, 2005,
www.jayfisher.com started to boom. I don't know why, perhaps the
popularity of my work, or the efforts I had made to expand and clarify the web
site was starting to gain
interest. Back then, it was averaging about 5000 hits a day. I had to laugh at
our local newspaper, the Clovis News Journal, when they reported that
their website was the "busiest in the area" at over 90,000 hits a month. Even
back then, I was averaging 150,000 hits a month. I didn't bother to set them
straight, but I found it amusing.
Written 01DEC06:
This web site started gaining momentum and about a thousand
hits a day per month, for about six months, then it started increasing. Now I'm
gaining 5000 to 6000 hits a day per month! As of this writing, the site is
running about 30,000 hits a day, or 915,000 hits a month! These are not just web
bots or spiders cruising for email addresses, or just because the site has a lot
of words, therefore scores high in search engines. At the time of this writing,
nearly three fourths of visitors are bookmarking this site as one of their
favorites, intending to return again and again. And they do. My goal is to have
the best single knifemaker website on the internet.
Written 01APR07: I topped 1
million hits last month! That's an average of over 34,000 hits a day! The actual
number was 1,062,515. That's a lot of web traffic. It's funny, I still get
people and companies emailing me wanting to help me promote my web site on the
internet! Yeah, right, I need more traffic! Right now, my order list is
getting longer and longer, and longer... all I can ask is that my clients have
great patience. It's taken a lot of years to build this site, and I'm thankful
to all of you who contribute your time, effort, and hard-earned money to invest
in my knives, my information, and take the time to cruise this website! You are
the reason I'm here!
Written 19DEC07: The website
traffic continues to grow. There's just no stopping this juggernaut! Last month,
I averaged 47,000 hits a day, I'm nearing the 1.5m Hits per month mark! People are
asking how they too, can benefit from this fantastic internet experience, and
I'm helping a few choice friends, and writing a good deal about it in my book,
hopefully coming soon!
I'm gonna have to buy more bandwidth...
Written 02JAN08: Last year
was a fantastic year for the website. Traffic has increased from
29,000 hits per day in DEC06 to 51,000 hits per day in DEC07. I keep
thinking that traffic will level off, but I don't think that's the
trend. The 1.5m hits/month mark? Blew right through it. I'll be very
interested to see what happens this year!
Written 28JAN08:
AAAAAKKK! I've run out of bandwidth!
Extremely high site traffic (no kidding) pushed my bandwidth use up very
high, so my server just shut the site down... grrr. My server did not warn me about this, though they told me they sent
out several emails... to my email address from 10 years ago! So we've updated
this beast of a web site and we'll see if you guys can crash it. Because they
thought they warned me (but, in fact, did not) my site came down about 11:00 AM
28JAN08 and stayed down until 5:00 PM MST. But I'm up and running again! It must
have been that traffic on Friday, January 25, 2008. I had just under 98,000 hits
... in that one day!
I had to buy more bandwidth...
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