Vacuum Fluctuations : Much Ado About Nothing ?

For the past several weeks we've been taking a hard look at reader responses and browsing patterns  both here in Gather© and elsewhere using back-links, cross-links, and various approaches to search-engine-optimization. So far we having been looking primarily at readership and performance within the United States, however, you might be surprised to note that Gather has a very strong reader-base throughout the world. Let's take a few moments to review that component ¹ . Often, It appears as if out of nowhere. ( 'Much ado about nothing.')

The statistics shown above were generated over the last two months, primarily, but you will notice a notation concerning the last submission I offered ' Duck Soup: Media Frenzy ', published 23 May 2009 at 2:16 PM Eastern. Gather© shows twelve viewers, ratings of ten, and two comments, as of the moment.

The total page views, overall, so far, however have been twenty page-loads, five unique viewers, and two returning visitors. Some analysts refer to the latter as 'addicts'. My regulars ...

Careful evaluation of the readership performance outside the United States indicates something similar. About two page-loads per unique viewer, and two major categories of readership.Fifty-One Percent of all readership is by 'regulars'. Two to three visits per month. Thirty-Five percent of all readership are passers-by. The remaining fourteen percent of all visitors are the regulars, or addicts.

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¹Authors Note:

Over the last two days, Thanks in no little part to you, I have had just over 145 unique visitors, 105 were from the United States ( 69% ) and 35 were from the rest of the world, our Global readers ( 31%). Some of you check my submissions on a daily basis ...