Saturday, January 1, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR....AND THANK YOU

Happy New Year! I hope you had a great 2010 and your 2011 is even better.

2010 was a good year for the Gasport website. It had 34,400 visitors in 2010, a 25% increase over 2009. To put that growth in perspective, there were only 7,700 visitors for all of 2008.

New Yorkers accounted for 26,400 of the visits. The Gasport expartiots who most frequented the site hailed from California, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Florida.

The most viewed stories were the plug for Royalton's 4th July and the posts about the passing of Stephanie Verratti and Meghan Redenbach (which for both is a testament to how beloved they are).

The most visitors on one day were 960 on December 3rd.

A big "thank you" to everyone who frequents this site. You keep me going and push me to always improve coverage. The ongoing growth in visits proves to me that my efforts in reporting the news and events in Gasport (the good, the bad and the sad) are valuable to local residents and former residents alike.

Gasport is a great place -- my hometown forever -- and I enjoy spreading the word about it.