06 January 2009

By The Numbers 2008

Some statistics from 2008 (for those of you who enjoy examining some things):

31,425: Number of visits to ccjasper.com in 2008
19,483: Visits to this blog in 2008.
9,077: Number of unique visitors to ccjasper.com in 2008.
1,892: Number of ccjasper.com pages loaded in Spain in 2008.
1,605: Number of times the 04-20-08 sermon, "Be Certain" was hit (not necessarily fully downloaded, but hit. The most for a sermon in 2008).
1,206: Highest number of unique visitors in a single month in 2008 (November)
965: Number of CDs sold or given away for Narrow Path's "Far As The Curse Is Found" in 2008. A huge success, in my mind.
869: Number of times the "How Deep The Father's Love For Us" video has been hit in 2008 (the most viewed video).
683: Number of times people linked to ccjasper.com from this site (I don't have ANY idea what this site is, BTW. it is a foreign site, obviously: http://202.108.23.172/index.html) Anyway, this is the highest referring page.
662: Number of ccjasper.com pages loaded in South Korea in 2008.
587: Number of ccjasper.com pages loaded in China in 2008.
437: Number of times the song "God's Gonna Cut Your Down" was hit in 2008 (most hit music file on the site).
306: Number of times blog tribute to Dr. Phil Dawkins was viewed as a single page (meaning not as a part of the overall blog. This was the most viewed blog post of the year).
3: Number of ccjasper.com pages loaded in Iran in 2008.

Searches that led to ccjasper.com:
"christian church of jasper": 526
"jasper christian church": 184
"ccjasper": 105
"pandora sphinx moth": 39 (Glenda, do you remember this post?) :-)
"dr. phil dawkins": 33

Other interesting search terms:
"spider monkey": 10
"roadies needed": 3
"god sandwich": 3
"what does far as the curse is found mean?": 2
"job description for church drummers": 1
"why does dubois county have the highest gas prices?": 1

Other Search Notes:
- There were a TREMENDOUS amount of searches done on Dr. Dawkins (with varying search terms) that led to the church site.
- There are also a large number of people who search for CCJ attenders by name and end up on the ccjasper.com site (i.e. someone gets to the church site by doing a Google search for 'kevin chastain' for instance). So, we all might want to be mindful of how we live. ;-)
- I don't have high or average attendance numbers or any such thing. Maybe those with access to those could add them in the comments.

UPDATE 09JAN2009: Here some attendance averages and numbers for 2008.
Monthly Averages
Jan.: 518
Feb.: 510
March: 531
April: 525
May: 556
June: 565
July: 530
Aug.: 533
Sept.: 556
Oct.: 531
Nov.: 601
Dec.: 591
Average Attendance for 2008: 546
High Attendance Times 2008
June 22: 640
Carnival on June 8: 1,000+

These numbers are simply because I'm a geek and are in no way an attempt to say numbers are the most important thing in the body of a church.