Ron Graham’s Report
— for Apr-May-Jun (2nd Quarter) 2024
This page reports my work on simplybible.com for the information of those who take a special interest in this work.
New Pages on simplybible.com
In this 2nd Quarter of 2024, I prepared 6 new study pages and added them to the website. This brings the number of study pages on the site to 1,602.
The new pages are...
⚙ New: Are There Aliens on Earth?
⚙ New: Bible Verses About Love
⚙ New: AI is not God, God is not AI
⚙ New: Bible Firsts (Genesis 1-4)
⚙ New: No Other Gospel (Galatians 1:8-9)
⚙ New: The Hearing of Faith (Romans 10:16-18)
Website Usage
Now here are the key metrics for the website simplybible.com in the second quarter (Apr-May-Jun) of 2024. Pages means web pages opened and viewed by visitors. Visits means the number of visitors who opened those pages. PDF means downloads of the PDF versions of the web pages.
| 2024 Qtr2 |
Pages | Visits | |
| April | P1 | V1 | D1 |
| May | P2 | V2 | D2 |
| June | P3 | V3 | D3 |
| Quarter | QP | QV | QD |
| Av Day | PA | VA | DA |
(Source Awstats).
For the twelve months to the end of June 2024, the number of page views was around 2 million.
Adjustment to Data
The source of the data in this report is a service called Awstats. It makes its data more accurate by separating page views by robots (such as googlebot) from pageviews by humans. On rare occasions, however, a scan of the website gets counted falsely as human pageviews.
That happened, for example, on 1st June and I made adjustments for it. The error was easy to spot because the count for visits (3,510) was in a normal range but the count for pages viewed (22,802) was ridiculously high.
Time on Site
Another metric that Awstats provides is the time visitors spend on the website. For example, in the month of June there were 9,368 visitors who spent between 15 minutes and 1 hour or more on the site. The other months (April and May 2024) were of similar pattern.
Pageviews per Nation
Here's a list of the countries in which more than 400 pages were viewed in May 2024, the 2nd month of the 2nd quarter. The other months (April and June 2024) were of similar pattern.
PAGE VIEWS - MAY 2024
United States.....118,792
China..............15,345
Poland.............12,388
Great Britain.......5,565
Indonesia...........5,008
Canada..............4,777
Australia...........4,115
Philippines.........3,749
India...............3,579
South Africa........3,120
Nigeria.............2,723
Angola..............1,770
Russian Federation..1,613
Kenya...............1,241
Germany...............942
Netherlands...........903
Iran..................838
Sweden................782
Israel................767
Norway................683
Singapore.............607
Malaysia..............587
Japan.................548
Romania...............508
New Zealand...........505
(Source: Awstats)
Downloads of Lessons
I have noticed a reduction in the number of downloads requested each month. A download sends a copy of a lesson to the person’s computer which can be used for printing and sharing. Once downloaded, the lesson can be viewed without having to be on the internet. Among the most downloaded lessons are those on the book of Acts.
A download is requested from a link near the bottom of the page. I moved the link to immediately after the lesson. I did this on around 1600 study pages. (My text editor allows me to alter multiple files at once.) I am hoping that this move will increase download requests.
Church Meetings
We continued to hold Sunday morning services in our home on the Lord’s Day. The elderly couple, whom I mentioned in previous reports, met with us several times, whenever they could. We also had three visits from our family at Mungar. Three young members of the family have recently been baptised. On the last Sunday of June we had ten persons assembled.
Susanne's Health
My dear wife, who suffered a heart attack and required extensive open heart surgery, is home with a long recovery ahead. We are deeply thankful for the many prayers being offered, and for God’s help.
Thank You
Thank you for your help in the Lord’s work, your continued prayers, and your interest in the work on the website. You join with us to encourage and inform those who seek the truth wherever they are in this world.
Love and best wishes in Jesus,