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[Josh Bond]

Some of you may have noticed we've been trending higher and higher on new member registrations.

Yesterday we had a whopping 122 new members in a single day! This smashed the old record.

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Our daily traffic numbers have dramatically increased in the past month. 43% of our visitors are new visitors. 56% are return visitors. Monday is our busiest day and Sunday is our slowest day. We're also reaching other countries more so than in the past.

Overall, 25% of our traffic comes from type-ins (those who type in biblesupport.com directly into their browser). Subtracting the type-ins, who sends us our referral traffic (who is linking to us)?

• Google sends us 49%
• e-Sword.net (and the link inside the e-Sword application) sends us 13%
• Doctor Dave sends us 9%
• e-Sword-users.org sends us 7%
• 300 websites like Yahoo, Bing, blogs, message boards, Christian websites, church websites, etc collectively form about 22%.

Origins of the New Traffic?
Google is mostly responsible for our increasing traffic. One reason is because more and more websites are linking to us. Google determines a website's importance partially based on other websites that link to it. In addition to better keyword ranking, those links are also providing 22% of our traffic now.

I also suspect Google is treating us differently because Rick Meyers removed all of the official e-Sword modules from e-Sword.net (so people will download the modules through the internal e-Sword downloader). In Google's view, those resources no longer exist. e-Sword.net was one of the most prominent websites related to e-Sword modules/downloads. Google noticed the (many) pages of modules are gone and I believe Google has shifted some of that keyword weight to us. It's odd how changes on one website can affect another.

God continues to bless this website in that ways I never imagined. I'm also routinely surprised at how many e-Sword users exist. The total number of active e-Sword installations is staggering. Since we know e-Sword tries to connect to e-Sword.net each time it's started, I would like to know the number of monthly e-Sword users. Only one person can answer that definitively, as only he has access to the data. I imagine it's a very large number.

[APsit190]

Some of you may have noticed we've been trending higher and higher on new member registrations.

Yesterday we had a whopping 122 new members in a single day! This smashed the old record.

Hi Josh,
Well mate, that is fantastic news. And praise God for it too. It seems to show me just how much treasure there is for those who are hungry after the Word of God. And what comes out from this is perhaps a greater number of new e-Sword users than ever before. I don't know for certain, its more of a stab in the dark, a wild guess.

I'm also routinely surprised at how many e-Sword users exist.

At an extremely rough guess, I reckon worldwide the number would be about 2 million users, and that the largest number of users would be in the US, Canada, and Europe.

Also, from what I seem to see, there are about 3,000 users here in New Zealand (a real rough guess as it could be more). I give away about 50 copies of e-Sword a year. So if we take into account the number of e-Sword missionaries who give e-Sword away, which is an unquantified number, would make it difficult to know what the actual number of users there are.

Moreover, areas that I'm interested in knowing are:

• Total number of e-Sword Users who give e-Sword away
• Total number of exclusive users of e-Sword (only use e-Sword)
• Total number of mixed users of e-Sword (use e-Sword and one or more other Bible Software)
• And of those who also use other Bible Software, the Total number who predominantly use e-Sword and/or some other Bible Software.

I had been entertaining an idea on and off for some time for users to register as either an existing user or a new user when downloading the program. The reason for this is that by doing this it would give a more accurate number of users world wide. Just a thought there.

In conclusion, Josh, thanks for the fantastic service you've provided, bro. I really do appreciate it. You're doing a great job, mate.

Blessings,

[James Rice]

Got to ditto what my brother from New Zealand said! Josh you've done outstanding job with Bible Support and continue to do so with the great works you've produced. May God continue to bless and keep you in His love and work.

[journey]

Brother Josh and All,

BibleSupport is definitely a raving success. It is equipping many Christians who will use what they download here for the Glory of God. There is something new here nearly every visit - something I want to download and use. There is also encouragement here to learn how to make modules and contribute to the e-Sword community. This is a ministry, and it will be in my prayers.

[Ebed Doulos]

Josh,

There is little I can add, other than my own personal thank-you.

Thank you!

Ebed

[Josh Bond]

Thanks to all of your contributing the way you do, with modules, message board comments, etc. This is what drives the community.

And I'll be out of pocket most of this week on a local vacation of sorts. If anything goes wrong, the moderators, Peter, James, and Bill can delete as necessary.

[pfpeller]

Thanks to all of your contributing the way you do, with modules, message board comments, etc. This is what drives the community.

And I'll be out of pocket most of this week on a local vacation of sorts. If anything goes wrong, the moderators, Peter, James, and Bill can delete as necessary.

Enjoy the much deserved rest!

[DoctorDaveT]

nope - can't go until Lange's is done...

[Josh Bond]

nope - can't go until Lange's is done...

Soon! I think I've learned a lesson on issuing public deadlines. Lange's is coming around, but with the warm weather my progress has slowed. Fortunately, it's not a verse by verse commentary. Since it's chapter by chapter, it's manageable. The chapters that are properly divided are very fast. It's the redividing that's annoying. I think it's going to be near 160 megs. I'm spending a few hours a day on it.

[MJ_]

Soon! I think I've learned a lesson on issuing public deadlines. Lange's is coming around, but with the warm weather my progress has slowed. Fortunately, it's not a verse by verse commentary. Since it's chapter by chapter, it's manageable. The chapters that are properly divided are very fast. It's the redividing that's annoying. I think it's going to be near 160 megs. I'm spending a few hours a day on it.

Deadline? Anyone remember hearing about a dealine? haha..