MusicSmiles.com
The Worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan


 

 

Here are some facts and figures about the MusicSmiles website since it was first launched in late December 2001, supplied to us by our Web Server. You can access this page from the Visitors' Number at the foot of each page.

We appreciate that some regard statistics as rather tedious, but many people do seem interested in knowing something of these mysterious background 'data'. So here goes . . .

Totals since MusicSmiles was launched

bullet

Total Hits . . . . . . . . . . . .     1,090,113

bullet

Total Individual Visits . . .    69,039

bullet

Average Monthly Visits . .    873.91
(Shortly after the initial launch, monthly visitors were in the region 40 - 70)

WE'VE ACHIEVED OUR FIRST MILLION HITS!!! Please join us in a gentle celebration on achieving over 69,000 visitors in total, with 1,550 visitors dropping in on more than 8,700 pages last month; and on increasing the overall average to over 870 visits per month! And the magnificent total of over 1,090,000 hits ; (Well, your visit(s) might have realised these for us!)

For the Month of June 2008

bullet

Visits to MusicSmiles  for the month .  1550

bulletFrom number of individual sites . . . .   776
bulletNumber of pages visited . . . . . . . . .   8,759
bulletNumber of files accessed . . . . . . . . .  18,932
bulletNumber of Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24,113

These figures from our web-server indicate a rapidly growing international interest in the MusicSmiles site. This is the 55th consecutive month of over 500 visitors. There has been a steady growth of interest in the Royal Golden Jubilee (and Merrie England), and a burgeoning interest in our steam-railway story of Hellfire Jack; the new serialised story of Francis Drake, and the associated selection of Sea Shanties. There is also increased use of our Contents, What's New, and this Facts & Figures page.

The top 3 MusicSmiles places (As indicated by visitor numbers) are:-

  1. Sharing first place:- 
bullet Golden Jubilee    (Various composers)
bulletOh Mr Porter    (George Le Brunn)
bulletHellfire Jack    (A Railway Story)
bullet A Nightmare    (G&S)
bullet The Oxcart    (Modest Mussorgsky)
bullet Eternal Pop Song - Maud    (Balfe)
bulletSpring Flowers    (G&S)
bulletCésare Franck - Panis Angelicus

 2.   Sharing second place:- 

bullet The Judge's Entrance    (G&S)
bullet A Little Gem    (Sullivan)
bullet Go Spiritual    (Swing Low - Negro Spiritual)
bullet End of Dreams    (G&S)
bullet Maud's Reply    (Joyce Grenfell)
bullet The Drunken Sailor    (Sea Shanties)
bullet Chin, Chin Chinaman    (The Geisha, Sidney Jones)
bullet A Summer Night!    (Sullivan)
bullet Dear Little Donkey    (André Messager)
bullet Dreams    (Mendelssohn)
bullet Shore Baby    (George Grossmith)
bulletContents    (MusicSmiles Contents page)
bulletFacts    (MusicSmiles Facts & Figures! page)
bullet 

 3.   And Sharing 3rd place:-

bullet Tommy's Gone    (Sea Shanties)
bullet Blow the Man Down    (Sea Shanties)
bulletBobby Shafto    (Sea Shanties)
bullet Rio Grande    (Sea Shanties)
bulletThe Mermaid    (Sea Shanties)
bulletBlow the Wind    (Sea Shanties)
bulletContents    (MusicSmiles Contents page)
bullet Tell Me Pretty Maiden    (Leslie Stuart)
bullet Requiem    (Gabriel Fauré)
bullet Zoo Visit    (Saint-Saëns)
bullet Stranger in Paradise    (Borodin)
bullet Morning    (Grieg)
bulletWhat's New    (MusicSmiles What's New page)
bulletCesar Franck    (Composer's Story)

Closely followed by:

Francis Drake - Prologue (MusicSmiles Story), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), Absent Friends (Sullivan), Carmen's Story (Georges Bizet), A Love Letter (German), Rumpel-Stilts-Kin (The Brothers Grimm), Gallery (Photos of 'Village Singers'), Francis Drake - Foreword (MusicSmiles Story), Merrie England (Edward German), Peaceful England  (German), England's Yeomen  (German), English Rose (German), I Was Glad (Hubert Parry), Spring Song (Mendelssohn), Barcarolle (Jacques Offenbach), A Ghost Story (G&S), Piano Concert  (Franz Liszt), Ave Verum (Mozart), George Gershwin - and his Fascinating Rhythm. William Tell  Selection (Rossini), Midnight Clear (Sullivan), Skaters! (Emil Waldteufel), Pop in Vienna! (Johann Strauss 1), Happy Returns (A Birthday Greeting), Hans Anderson -  The Little Match Girl, Daffodils (Wordsworth), Toreador (Georges Bizet), A Christmas Carol  (Charles Dickens), Haydn (And - The Creation), Dem Golden Slippers (James Bland), John Philip Sousa (Liberty Bell), Tit Willow (G&S), Golliwog's Cake Walk (Claude Debussy), Love Sick Boy (G&S), National Anthem (Origin Obscure), Golden Afternoon (Lewis Carroll), Light Brigade story and poem (Tennyson), Water Music (Handel) 

To return to story click BACK-BUTTON <--- top left of screen

 


To search for an article in our special MusicSmiles Contents table

< < < Click Wise Owl's book < < < 

 

If you quote or print anything from this Web-site please add a link to MusicSmiles.com in your Web-site. Thanks.

© Music arranged and 'performed' by Dr J Eric Ashton

Copyright © Dr J Eric Ashton 27 September 2010 . All Rights Reserved.

This site was last updated on 27 September 2010 .

 

( Click number to view statistics > > >). Scribe thanks all our  223,547 MusicSmiles visitors up to beginning of September, 2010. 

You may find our special effects work best with Microsoft Internet Explorer