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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 Servers. 

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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

WE'VE  TOPPED OUR FIRST 1½MILLION HITS!!!  AND over 125,000 visitors!!! Please join us in a gentle celebration on achieving 136,310 individual visitors in total, with 6.311 visitors dropping in on over 21,000 pages last month; and on increasing the overall average to over 1,360 visits per month! And the magnificent total of over 1,712,000 hits ; (Well, your visit(s) might have realised these for us!)

For the Month of May 2010

These figures from our web-server indicate a surging international interest in the MusicSmiles site. This is the 76th consecutive month of over 500 visitors. There has been a steady interest in the Royal Celebrations (and Merrie England), and a regular interest in our steam-railway story of Hellfire Jack; the new serialised story of Francis Drake, and the associated portfolio of Sea Shanties. There is also frequent use of our Contents, What's New, and this Facts & Figures page.

The top 10 MusicSmiles pages (As indicated by visitor numbers for February) are:-

1. My Bonnie Lies . . . Sea Shanties
2. The Keel Row    (Sea Shanty -In Francis Drake Story)
3. Oh Mr Porter    (George Le Brunn)
4. Sea Shanties - (MusicSmiles selection)
5. Césare Franck - Panis Angelicus
6. Chin Chin Chinaman    (Sidney Jones  The Geisha)
7. Francis Drake Chapter XV
8. Drake's Drum - Charles Villiers Stanford
9. Eternal Pop Song!    (Michael Balfe)
10. Hellfire Jack - A true story (well nearl true!) about a railway hero

and

Where do MusicSmiles visitors come from . . .?

Identities of MusicSmiles Visitors -  In descending rank order (based on visitor numbers) . . .

By Continent:-

1. North America
2. Europe
3. Asia
4. Australia and Oceania
5. South America
6. Africa

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from the Continent of North America:-

1. United States
2. Canada

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from the Continent of Europe:-

1. Great Britain
2. Sweden
3. France
4. Germany
5. Netherlands
6. Ireland
7. Spain
8. Italy
9. Switzerland
10. Portugal
11. Belgium
12. Ukraine
13. Denmark
14. Finland
15. Romania
16. Turkey
17. Poland
18. Macedonia (Former Yugosia
19. Hungary
20. Luxembourg
21. Bulgaria
22. Croatia
23. Czech Republic
24. Belarus
25. Austria

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from Asia

1. Russia
2. China
3. Japan
4. Philippines
5. Singapore
6. India
7. South Korea
8. Indonesia
9. Israel
10. Thailand
11. Hong Kong
12. Vietnam
13. Saudi Arabia
14. Lebanon
15. Taiwan
16. United Arab Emirates
17. Kuwait
18. Oman
19. Malaysia
20. Sri Lanka
21. Iran
22. Bahrain
23. Afghanistan

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from Australia and Oceania

1. Australia
2. New Zealand

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from South America

1. Uruguay
2. Colombia

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from Africa

1. Mauritius
2. South Africa
3. Cameroon
4. Sudan

Identity of MusicSmiles Visitors from Antarctica

1. No data for selected period

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

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