HERE IS A REVIEW of the Temple Bar Website from March 1997.
- Temple Bar web site attracts approximately 12000 visitors each month.
-- Approximately 7800 visitors enter via Temple Bar home page.
-- An estimated 4000 visitors either (1) enter via the Virtual Gallery and then go to the Home Page or (2) go from the Home Page to the Virtual Gallery.
- Most visitors browse with Netscape 2.0, which means they are using last-generation technology.
-- Slightly more than 10% browse the site with graphics turned off.
-- At least 6% of all surfers are return visitors.
- Of the 52 pages on the site, the most viewed include:
-- 11424 visitors to the Virtual Gallery’s home page
-- Approximately 7200 visitors to the home page
-- Approximately 12000 visitors to Mapplethorpe’s front page
-- 1611 visitors to Food and Drink
-- 1321 visitors to accommodation in Temple Bar
- More people are visiting culture and events than visit food and drink
-- 1200 visited events
-- 1037 visited culture outside of the Virtual Gallery
-- 870 visited history
-- 539 visited shops
- We are implementing ways of increasing cultural visitors
-- Fewest visitors to Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (95) and Black Church Pint Studio (84).
-- Most visitors to the Culture Page clicked through to see the public art (256), Arthouse (196), IFC (185), Gallery of Photography (152), Temple Bar Music Centre (142), and the Ark (127).
- Least visited pages on the site: 35 visited the first information published about the dig and 24 read the first Mapplethorpe press release.
- Most surfers visit on Friday afternoon and fewest visit on Sunday morning.
- Visitors come from six different continents.
-- Most come from the USA.
-- Most continentals are British, German, or French.
-- Approximately 12% of all visitors are Irish.
--- Most Irish request come from Ireland On-Line, Homenet, and Indigo in that order.
--- More requests from UCD (986) than from DCU (810) or TCD (226).
- We are linking to an average of 3 external sites a day.
- We have started updating the Temple Bar holdings with the Gulliver database.
