2007 CAFA Annual General Meeting

September 29, 2007

Webmaster's Report

This past year was another slow one for development of new features and content for the freedivecanada site but there are exciting things in the works.

The board established early in the 2006/2007 year that priority would be given to providing a French language mirror to the site. Towards that end, Jade Leutenegger has translated a some of the site into French. This work is still in the pipe but expect to see some French content within the next month.

Thanks Jade!

Also of note, the aidaworlds2004.com domain name has gone defunct and therefore so has that website. That site is down but it is certainly not out. It could be restored easily enough under the freedivecanada banner if we move to a service that allows subdomains.

Site Traffic

The traffic to the site continued to rise from last year's 3000 unique computers viewing the site per month to over 5000 during the summer months.

Below is a summary of this past year's web traffic:

Usage summary for freedivecanada.com

Summary by Month
Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals
Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
Sep 2007 4434 3615 590 295 2988 490620 7968 15940 97618 119727
Aug 2007 5311 4258 711 392 4523 683366 12178 22052 132007 164651
Jul 2007 5862 4682 888 537 5032 799690 16671 27539 145159 181737
Jun 2007 6059 5018 875 504 5209 822663 15134 26251 150548 181797
May 2007 4952 3875 725 382 4959 691811 11848 22478 120136 153534
Apr 2007 4838 3745 768 396 3789 651008 11888 23050 112356 145144
Mar 2007 5795 4230 785 424 3633 822183 13172 24337 131132 179649
Feb 2007 4815 3782 667 372 3250 602297 10418 18697 105916 134841
Jan 2007 4646 3636 639 376 3742 626877 11665 19825 112741 144034
Dec 2006 4669 3454 689 376 3211 590366 11658 21384 107086 144742
Nov 2006 4599 3508 572 300 3142 554020 9009 17163 105247 137991
Oct 2006 5045 3831 533 266 3355 587048 8260 16523 118762 156396
Totals 7921949 139869 255239 1438708 1844243

Search Engines

The freedivecanada site also remains Google's the top-ranked site for 'freediving' for the second year in a row. However, the site's ranking on other search engines is significantly lower.

The top search terms used to find the freedivecanada site are 'freediving' and 'Canadian women', followed by names of various freedivers and dive site locations such as Morrison's Quarry and Horseshoe Lake, Alberta. Interestingly, there isn't much traffic to the dive site writeups but these are useful for bringing in traffic from search engines.

Looking Ahead

Although I won't be on this next year's CAFA board, I would be happy to continue on as CAFA's webmaster. As always though, I am happy to accept whatever help that I can:

Tom Lightfoot
Webmaster

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