May 14th, 2008
Over 10,000 Sold (this Month)
Stepping back from the subject of Kirkbrides a little, I just wanted to announce that KirkbrideBuildings.com passed a pretty significant milestone today. As of this morning, the site had 10,276 unique visitors this month. That may be chicken feed to popular sites getting ten times that many visitors a day, but considering KB.com’s average for the past few years has been around 5000 uniques a month, it’s pretty amazing.
In March the site crossed over the 7000 unique visitors mark for the first time, and then for a second time in April. But May has seen an even bigger increase and the site will likely get over 12,000 uniques by the end of the month.
The numbers will move back down in June though I’m sure. Part of the surge was due to the serendipitous convergence of an architecture magazine article*, the Weston Ghost Hunters episode on the last night of April, and to a reasonably high profile link on Digg (thank you, MuddyMudskipper). But even with the inevitable drop, the number of visitors should continue to grow from its earlier average.
Hopefully that means more awareness about Kirkbride buildings and an even better chance that they’ll be appreciated and preserved. I like to think this site will help in that regard in some small way. Maybe it has already since it’s been around for several years, but it’s been so small and insular that it’s direct influence isn’t very wide-ranging. I’m kicking myself now for essentially leaving it adrift for the past few years…
Anyway, at the risk of sounding like I take this too seriously, I should thank you all for visiting the site. Thank you! Please come again:)
*The article by the way gets a few things wrong. Not sure how that happened. It may have been my fault. It’s nothing that important though.
