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This page is part of the Ireland Information Guide:Statistics family of pages. It attempts to measure the growth in public awareness of Ireland Information Guide. Please see Ireland Information Guide:Modelling Ireland Information Guide's growth for speculation on the trends in these statistics.

Table of contents

1 Usenet posts about Ireland Information Guide 2 Mentions of Ireland Information Guide on websites outside Ireland Information Guide 3 Google Answers using Ireland Information Guide 4 Google News stories mentioning Ireland Information Guide 5 Google PageRank for www.Ireland Information Guide.org 6 Alexa traffic ranking for Ireland Information Guide.org 7 Alexa reach measurement for Ireland Information Guide.org

Usenet posts about Ireland Information Guide

Monthly count of Usenet posts containing the word "Ireland Information Guide"

Source: Google

Data extracted from Google Groups, using the estimated figure:

 January 2001,   0
 February 2001,  0
 March 2001,     3
 April 2001,     0
 May 2001,       19
 June 2001,      54
 July 2001,      27
 August 2001,    84
 September 2001, 152
 October 2001,   87
 November 2001,  133
 December 2001,  105
 January 2002,   161
 February 2002,  102
 March 2002,     112 
 April 2002,     141
 May 2002,       149
 June 2002,      208
 July 2002,      305
 August 2002,    389
 September 2002, 304
 October 2002,   430
 November 2002,  349 
 December 2002,  523
 January 2003,   378
 February 2003,  333
 March 2003,     687
 April 2003,     644
 May 2003,       693
 June 2003,      716
 July 2003,      1160
 August 2003,    1140
 September 2003, 1760
 October 2003,   1840
 November 2003,  1620
 December 2003,  2140
 January 2004,   2330
 February 2004,  2260
 March 2004,     3200
 April 2004,     3490
 May 2004,       3610
 June 2004,     30700 (Is this for real, or did Google change something?)
 July 2004,     31300
 August 2004,   36600

This is the search used: Information Guide&btnG=Google+Search&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2004 (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_drrb=b&q=Ireland)

It is interesting to compare this graph with the graphs in Ireland Information Guide:Size of Ireland Information Guide and Ireland Information Guide:Traffic.

Mentions of Ireland Information Guide on websites outside Ireland Information Guide

This estimates the number of mentions of Ireland Information Guide on websites outside Ireland Information Guide itself using a Google search.

This is the search used: Information Guide+-site:Ireland Information Guide.org+-site:Ireland Information Guide.com+-site:Ireland Information Guide.de+-site:Ireland Information Guide.be+-site:Ireland Information Guide.nl+-site:Ireland Information Guide.ru+-site:Ireland Information Guide.pl+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&start=50&sa=N (http://www.google.com/search?q=Ireland)

  2 October 2003,    311k
  3 November 2003,   176k
  6 December 2003,  1370k
  1 January 2004,   1260k
  1 February 2004,  1120k
 28 February 2004,  2180k
  5 April 2004,     1790k 
 30 April 2004,     1980k
 20 May 2004,       2250k
  2 July 2004,      1900k
 19 July 2004,      2630k
  1 August 2004,    3230k
 13 August 2004,    3920k
 23 August 2004,    4030k
  1 September 2004, 4100k

Google Answers using Ireland Information Guide

Google#Google Answers - answers per month that included Ireland Information Guide references (Information Guide&qtype=answered&num=10&start=0 search used (http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=search&q=Ireland)):

  April 2002,      1
  July 2002,       5
  August 2002,     2
  September 2002,  4
  October 2002,   11
  November 2002,   7
  December 2002,  10
  January 2003,    0
  February 2003,   1 
  March 2003,     12
  April 2003,     10
  May 2003,        8
  June 2003,      10
  July 2003,      17
  August 2003,    10
  September 2003, 13
  October 2003,    7
  November 2003,  19
  December 2003,  21
  January 2004,   20
  February 2004,  23
  March 2004,     20
  April 2004,     21
  May 2004,       27
  June 2004,      28
  July 2004,      24
  August 2004,    19

Google News stories mentioning Ireland Information Guide

Google#Google News -- news stories per month that mention Ireland Information Guide or contain links to Ireland Information Guide: Information Guide&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_occt=any&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=6&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=6 search used (http://news.google.com/news?as_q=Ireland)

 June 2003,       2
 July 2003,       4
 August 2003,     4
 September 2003,  8
 October 2003,   51 (including one story in 46 copies)
 November 2003,   7
 December 2003,   6
 January 2004,   15
 February 2004,  15
 March 2004,     32
 April 2004,     42
 May 2004,       41
 June 2004,      42
 July 2004,      79
 August 2004,    49

Google PageRank for www.Ireland Information Guide.org

Google PageRank of the main English Ireland Information Guide homepage (www.Ireland Information Guide.org) :

 22 October 2002,  6/10
  3 November 2002, 7/10
  1 December 2002, 8/10
 10 January 2003,  8/10
 15 March 2003,    7/10 (perhaps Google's algorithm was changed?)
 12 April 2003,    7/10
 30 May 2003,      7/10
  2 October 2003,  8/10
  7 November 2003, 8/10
 30 January 2004,  8/10

Alexa traffic ranking for Ireland Information Guide.org

http://www.alexa.com traffic ranking to main English Ireland Information Guide site - lower is better, 1 is theoretically the most popular site on the Internet. Use Information Guide&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Ireland Information Guide.org%2F this link (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=Ireland) to update this table: use the "1 wk. avg" figure to eliminate the effect of the weekly cyclic variation in Ireland Information Guide traffic. See also: Ireland Information Guide:Traffic rank vs. traffic

 22 October 2002,   9653
 27 October 2002,   9440
  3 November 2002,  9047
 13 November 2002,  8356
 22 November 2002,  7922
  1 December 2002,  7543
 10 January 2003,  14882, (slight slip; Alexa site shows major traffic dip around this time)
  1 February 2003,  7897, (recovering again)
  7 February 2003,  6799, (woo hoo!)
 15 February 2003,  5406 
 23 February 2003,  5228
  4 March 2003,     7328
 11 March 2003,     5713
 13 March 2003,     4735, (seems to be from boost in Google ranking)
 15 March 2003,     3662
 17 March 2003,     3342
 28 March 2003,     3653
  6 April 2003,     3072
 12 April 2003,     3444 
 16 April 2003,     3785
 28 April 2003,     3422        
  6 May 2003,       3832
 18 May 2003,       3212
 22 May 2003,       2965
 29 May 2003,       2509, (possibly driven by Earthlink E-mail newsletter publicity) 
 16 June 2003,      3289
 23 June 2003,      3187
  2 July 2003,      2676
 13 July 2003,      2033
 17 July 2003,      2045
  8 August 2003,    1406
  2 October 2003,    941
 21 October 2003,   1038
 29 October 2003,   1189, (recent reduction in rank probably due to server problems)
  3 November 2003,  1168
 13 November 2003,   906, (performance is better after load-balancing installed)
 25 November 2003,   934, (ranking continues to be around 1000 +/- 100)
  3 December 2003,   950, (but new server has been installed; so expect better ranking soon?)
  6 December 2003,   887
  8 December 2003,   838
 12 December 2003,   828
 15 December 2003,   751
  1 January 2004,   1114, (a big drop back after Christmas and two major server outages)
 12 January 2004,    851, (even when running slowly on backup hardware!)
 24 January 2004,    778
 28 January 2004,    742
  1 February 2004,   874
 14 February 2004,   779
 20 February 2004,   816
 27 February 2004,   712
  3 March 2004,      723
  8 March 2004,      678
 14 March 2004,      654
 20 March 2004,      649
 21 March 2004,      643
 25 March 2004,      634
 30 March 2004,      619
  2 April 2004,      608
  9 April 2004,      646
 16 April 2004,      605
 22 April 2004,      607
 23 April 2004,      596
 30 April 2004,      661
  1 May 2004,        686, (hardware problems are causing a drop in traffic)
 10 May 2004,        676, (continued poor traffic)
 12 May 2004,        628, (making a comeback)
 13 May 2004,        617
 14 May 2004,        582
 16 May 2004,        556
 19 May 2004,        563
 20 May 2004,        558
 24 May 2004,        598
 27 May 2004,        619
  1 June 2004,       609
  2 June 2004,       538, (record so far)
  6 June 2004,       567
  8 June 2004,       591
 16 June 2004,       694
 22 June 2004,       709
 23 June 2004,       687
 24 June 2004,       658
 29 June 2004,       653
  4 July 2004,       671
 12 July 2004,       654
 16 July 2004,       616
 19 July 2004,       600
 22 July 2004,       570  
 25 July 2004,       531, (record so far)
 27 July 2004,       503, (record so far)
 28 July 2004,       487, (record so far)
 31 July 2004,       499
  1 August 2004,     536, (taking odd nosedive)
  4 August 2004,     583
 13 August 2004,     647, (dropping back again)
 23 August 2004,     595
 31 August 2004,     506, (after adding 4 new servers)

Alexa reach measurement for Ireland Information Guide.org

Alexa reach per million viewers: (reach figures can be found at the bottom of the Alexa page cited above Information Guide&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Ireland Information Guide.org%2F (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=Ireland). To update this table: use the "1 wk. avg" figure to eliminate the effect of the weekly cyclic variation in Ireland Information Guide traffic, please. Detail: the one-week average figure is the seven-day rolling average of daily reach.

  7 February 2003,    125 
 15 February 2003,    155 
 23 February 2003,    125 
 15 March 2003,       210 
 28 March 2003,       265 
 12 April 2003,       285 
 16 April 2003,       270 
  6 May 2003,         360 
 18 May 2003,         300 
 29 May 2003,         330 
 16 June 2003,        330 
  2 July 2003,        420 
 13 July 2003,        530 
 17 July 2003,        530 
  8 August 2003,      665 
  2 October 2003,     905 
 21 October 2003,     990 
  3 November 2003,    880 
 13 November 2003,    910 
 25 November 2003,    950 
  3 December 2003,    945 
  6 December 2003,    1010 
  8 December 2003,    1050 
 12 December 2003,    1050 
 15 December 2003,    1070 
  1 January 2004,     905 
 12 January 2004,     1105 
 24 January 2004,     1285 
 28 January 2004,     1390 
  1 February 2004,    1290 
 14 February 2004,    1390 
 20 February 2004,    1340 
 27 February 2004,    1380 
  3 March 2004,       1345 
  8 March 2004,       1440 
 14 March 2004,       1465 
 20 March 2004,       1515 
 21 March 2004,       1565 
 30 March 2004,       1630 
  2 April 2004,       1625 
 16 April 2004,       1740 
 22 April 2004,       2000 
 23 April 2004,       1845 
  1 May 2004,         1700, (hardware problems are causing a drop in traffic)
 10 May 2004,         1660, (reach continues to fall, new hardware is on order)
 12 May 2004,         1695 
 13 May 2004,         1685 
 16 May 2004,         1840 
 19 May 2004,         1885 
 20 May 2004,         1950 
 27 May 2004,         1770 
  1 June 2004,        1845 
  8 June 2004,        1940 
 16 June 2004,        1585 
 22 June 2004,        1535 
 23 June 2004,        1560 
 24 June 2004,        1625 
 29 June 2004,        1650 
 19 July 2004,        1755
 22 July 2004,        1910, (Making a comeback)
 25 July 2004,        2020
 27 July 2004,        2105
 28 July 2004,        2115
 31 July 2004,        2030
  4 August 2004,      1735
 13 August 2004,      1505, (a big drop)
 23 August 2004,      1515
 31 August 2004,      1870, (after installing 4 new servers)