44,000 hits a month and rising

44,000 hits for Canterbury Choral Society's new website in June (it's first month) and the daily figures so far for July are higher

www.canterburychoral.co.uk

It has been built on the WordPress platform, is hosted in the UK and is monitored by Webalizer. It's well stocked with useful, current information and this has led to the high visitor numbers.

Why WordPress?

1. It's an intuitive CMS system
2. The availability of plug-ins to expand functionality is great
3. It is easy to restrict a section of the website to users only
4. The support forums are extensive and there's so much help out there to Google
5. It is an excellent way to minimise the costs for voluntary groups, small charities and not for profit organisations.

Why Webalizer?

I chose it because unlike Google Analytics, it does not use cookies so bypasses the whole issue of conformity to the new EU cookie legislation. Be aware that different stats packages collect information differently. You can't compare one with the other as you are not comparing like with like. Be wary of concluding, for example, that your new website using Google Analytics is less effective than the old website that used Webalizer because the hits are lower. This is a reasonable starting point to understand why: http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55614