How big would it be?
Many use hours every day, to improve and make their web-site as good as possible, but is it worth it? How many are we doing it for? How big is it?
Perspective
We're not using time on our web-site every day and for us the purpose isn't to get as many visitors as possible. It's to get the information out to our contacts, and hopefully, rarely since the group we target are very small, we try to find new contacts.
I guess this is how you have to see things if you have a site: Everything is relative to your target group, it's not to be considered or compared to all Internet users. Same as if you have a store; you want the buyers to visit you, all the others don't create much income for you, with a small exception of the "word of mouth" effect.
Comparing to countries
I found a site that compares web-sites to places, and countries. We're not targeting all of the users on the Internet, but I thought it would be fun to compare our site: sorze4.com with a country.
This service, site: siteempires.com, informed me that our site is a little bigger than Cocos (Keeling) Islands and have a population of 616. A little bigger than Ådalsbruk is a village in the municipality of Løten, Norway.
What I didn't know, even though I'm Norwegian and my wife have the same last name, is that the famous painter, Edvard Munch was born there in 1863.
Well, being small isn't always a bad thing so I'm not disappointed that we can't compare ourselves with Facebook, larger than Italy, or Twitter, larger than Azerbaijan.
We have 5% compared to our local newspaper and we're OK with that :)
Many use hours every day, to improve and make their web-site as good as possible, but is it worth it? How many are we doing it for? How big is it?
Perspective
We're not using time on our web-site every day and for us the purpose isn't to get as many visitors as possible. It's to get the information out to our contacts, and hopefully, rarely since the group we target are very small, we try to find new contacts.
I guess this is how you have to see things if you have a site: Everything is relative to your target group, it's not to be considered or compared to all Internet users. Same as if you have a store; you want the buyers to visit you, all the others don't create much income for you, with a small exception of the "word of mouth" effect.
Comparing to countries
I found a site that compares web-sites to places, and countries. We're not targeting all of the users on the Internet, but I thought it would be fun to compare our site: sorze4.com with a country.
This service, site: siteempires.com, informed me that our site is a little bigger than Cocos (Keeling) Islands and have a population of 616. A little bigger than Ådalsbruk is a village in the municipality of Løten, Norway.
What I didn't know, even though I'm Norwegian and my wife have the same last name, is that the famous painter, Edvard Munch was born there in 1863.
Well, being small isn't always a bad thing so I'm not disappointed that we can't compare ourselves with Facebook, larger than Italy, or Twitter, larger than Azerbaijan.
We have 5% compared to our local newspaper and we're OK with that :)
