Site update preparing "Watch Your Words"

I’ve taken down the Skype conference call poll, and I’ll post the results tomorrow.

Today, however, as we start preparing for “Watch Your Words”, taken from Matthew 11:1-12:50, I want to give an update on the usage of this site.

Cameron posted a comment suggesting that the increase in site usage could be attributed to studying O.T. versus N.T. lessons. That is, teachers need more help preparing O.T. lessons, so traffic increased last summer over last spring.

He may be right, but looking at the chart below from http://www.statcounter.com/, I don’t think we can conclude that from the traffic on this site. The monthly visitors and returning users increased again in September (studying the N.T.) over August, when our lessons were from Malachi.

Moving on, I also want to compare traffic growth on this site year over year. Returning users in September 2006 numbered 511. That increased to 1,126 in September 2007 (more than 2x growth).

Unique visitors increased from 1,188 in September 2006 to 3,163 in September 2007 (just under 3x growth).

These stats are humbling. God continues to bless usage of this site even though I have very few clues as to why.