Traffic Still Increasing at Global Debate

With the buzz of WUDC Ireland and many other events, traffic continues to grow at http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com. Even after the WUDC and a lull in debating activities, traffic remains strong.

Send in your stories, use our traffic to promote your events, and make your place in the world of debating. Send stories and ideas to alfred.snider@uvm.edu.

Thanks to everyone who finds this website useful!

Debate Video Viewed Over 18000 Times in Two Weeks

The Final Round at WUDC 2009 in Cork was videotaped and put on the Debate Video Blog as well as the Global Debate Blog. The video is above if you are interested.

It has now been watched almost 19,000 times in two weeks.

That is a lot of viewing from all over the world.

Thanks to Art Ward and the WUDC crew who made it possible and easy for me to video the debate. They gave me a prime spot for my camera and all the cooperation they could.

As a result, thousands of people all over the world have been able to watch this video.

Global Debate Really is Global

The stories are global, and the readership is global as well. Even in a down time in the debate cycle such as this, a calm following WUDC activity, the world is tuning in. Here is a geographic listy of visitors in the last 24 hours:

United States [33%]
United Kingdom [11%]
India [8%]
Malaysia [6%]
Germany [5%]
Philippines [4%]
Canada [4%]
Indonesia [3%]
Hong Kong S.A.R., China [2%]
China [2%]
Ireland [2%]
Singapore [2%]
Thailand [2%]
Netherlands [1%]
Jamaica [1%]
Botswana [1%]
Qatar [1%]
Bahamas [1%]
Italy [1%]
Croatia [1%]
Spain [1%]
Estonia [1%]
Russia [1%]
Saudi Arabia [1%]
Turkey [1%]
Slovenia [1%]
Pakistan [1%]
Romania [1%]
Israel [1%]

GLOBAL DEBATE Has Come a Long Way in the Last Year

The statistrics above tell the story.

October 2007 there were about 3500 visitors, and in 2008 we have over 13,500 with most of a day still to go.

Observations indicate that the traffic will continue to grow. We see that most people do not come to GLOBAL DEBATE for a check up on news, but in search of something specific. About 60% of the visitors come from search engine sights and are after a specific story. To me, this means that as the archive grows the traffic will grow because there will be more to find there.

Following coverage of WUDC 2008 in Thailand traffic fell off. But now, it is above the high mark it hit during WUDC 2008, and was also higher in September, and thre is no special event going on now.

Thanks to everyone who has visited, thanks to those who have been encouraging and especially thanks to those who have alerted me to important stories.

Huge Boost in Readership for Global Debate

September 2008 was the biggest month yet. It was bigger than January 2008, which was our previous high due to everyone checking in on results from WUDC. There was no huge event in September, even though WSDC was big, but not that big, and visit patterns do not indicate that WSDC was that much of a factor.

It seems as if the start of the school year here in the Northern Hemisphere is the reason, or at least the one that seems logical to me.

More people are tuning in, so the focus now has to be on content and variety.

Global Audience for Global Debate Website

Got a swet little gadget from a group called FEEDJIT http://feedjit.com/ and it is showing a lot of interesting data. Here is a list of countries from last week.

United States [47%]
India [6%]
Philippines [4%]
Australia [4%]
United Kingdom [4%]
Canada [4%]
Indonesia [3%]
Malaysia [3%]
Slovenia [3%]
China [2%]
Romania [2%]
Czech Republic [2%]
Ireland [1%]
Jamaica [1%]
Netherlands [1%]
Hong Kong S.A.R., China [1%]
Estonia [1%]
South Korea [1%]
South Africa [1%]
Greece [1%]
Germany [1%]
Singapore [1%]
Mexico [1%]
Ivory Coast [1%]
United Arab Emirates [1%]
New Zealand [1%]
France [1%]
Bangladesh [1%]

Global Debate Traffic Holds Steady Over Summer

The summers are usually a doldrum time for debating, mostly because northern hemisphere schools tend not to be in session and many people are on vacation. So, it is good to see that the traffic at http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/ has remained at its higher spring levels all during the summer, with a rise for July.

That is a good thing and bodes well for traffic increases when schools start again at the end of August and the beginning of September.

Thanks for all of the support you have offered.