Dear Colleagues,

In line with the WPA Action Plan 2008-2011, WPA has been is in the process of improving its organizational image and identity, and the WPA Media Channels had played an important role in this process. WPA Media Channels (WPA News, the official newsletter of WPA; WPA Online, the web site of WPA; WPA E-Bulletin, the electronic bulletin of WPA) were re-constructed and improved to be in concert both in their contents and aesthetics. The general perspective has been to reach the elegancy in simplicity. WPA Media Channels were enriched along with this standpoint to raise their efficiency, both at inter-organizational and intra-organizational levels.

WPA Media Channels had managed to mirror the voice of all the WPA Components. Requests for contributions were sent out regularly and any submitted item was published after an edition and approval process. SG, as the editor of these media channels, monitored this route with the collaboration of the President and the EC members, and the WPA Secretariat staff, in a harmonized manner.

The renewal of the website and the transfer of the webmaster and the server, aiming to improve the global impact of the WPA website by revising its content, infrastructure, visual design and process of maintenance, started by early 2009 and finalized in a year. After through discussions in the EC, in order to enhance the readability, usability, and impact of the website, the technical administration of the website was transferred to a new IT company.  The SG worked very closely with the IT staff and a totally reconstructed new website was published on April 12, 2010. A brief report of this process was posted on the website. General statistics on the performance of the website for the last 15 months (see below) reflect a wide acceptance across the world. As the editor and the WPA Secretary General I have been facilitating this process with the cooperation of the EC members and our past and current administrators, A. Engström and F. Sotgiu, and our webmaster, Hande Kiziltug from the Istanbul based agency “Saglik Bahcesi - Uzak Yakin".

In fact, the website is a highly flexible living platform where we could explore further improvements continuously. I hope the users of WPA Online will continue to help us in improving the quality of our web site by sending their comments and suggestions.

Levent Kuey
WPA Secretary General
Editor, WPA Online

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Facts about www.wpanet.org    

WPA Online Statistics (April 12, 2010 – July 12, 2011)

• How many people and how many visits?
  105,275 people visited the WPA website and made 151,655 Visits

• From how many countries?
  These 151,655 visits came from 195 countries/territories

• How long is a visit?
  Average time spend on the website per visit is 2:41 minutes

• How many pages were viewed per visit?
  Average number of pages viewed per visit is 3.48

• How many page titles were viewed and how many times? How long for one page?
  1,922 page titles were viewed in a total of 527,276 times
  Average time spent on one page is 1:05 minutes

• Are these all "Old Visitors" coming back again and again?
  No, 69% of all the visitors were "New Visitors", while 31% were "Old Visitors".

• How do people reach the WPA website?
  64 % used Search Engines, 18 % used Referring Sites, and 18 % used `Direct Traffic`

• How many visits per day?
  In this period, average number of visits per day is 332 Visits

• Are the number of visits increasing or decreasing?
  There is continuous solid increase in the number of visits per day

• Comparison of the average daily visits by weeks

* The ratio of increase is 70%

• Comparison of total number of daily visits by weeks
  "First 4 weeks (12 April - 9 May 2010)" vs. "Last 4 weeks (13 June - 10 July 2011)"

• Which days of the week do people prefer to visit the WPA website?
  During the first 4 days of the week (Monday through Thursday) visits are more frequent than the other three days

• Which are these 195 countries/territories people of which are visiting the WPA website? Do we know the frequency of the visits by these countries?
  These countries/territories cover the whole world; practically visits are made from all the countries which have an internet connection.

• Total visits (April 12, 2010 - June 12, 2011) by countries