2009 Use Statistics for Virginia Fruit Page
The Virginia Fruit Home
Page received 10,097 page views from
January through
December 2009, based on numbers acquired from the Virginia Tech server
for
actual requests (not in-page counters). But such views to the home page
itself
represents only the tip of the iceburg. Altogether there were
418,22 page views to pages within this web
site in 2009, a maximum since the site went on-line in 1997, and an 18%
increase from the previous year.
Of the fruit crops represented in the Virginia Fruit Page the Grape
page received the most use (4,063
page
views), followed by the Apple
Page (3,309 views), the Small
Fruit page (1,861 page views),
the Peach
Page (1,843 page views), and the Pear
Page (1,243 page views).
The site
continues to be used by both commercial
and home fruit producers, reflected by use statistics for pages based
on
Virginia Tech pest management recommendations. There were 26,530 page
views
associated with the Spray Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers
(42%
Apple, 29% Peach and Nectarine, 12% Pear, 11% Cherry, 6% Plum), 2,.373
page
views to pages associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial
Vineyards, 2,771 page
views to pages associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial Small
Fruit (50%
Blueberry, 29% Strawberry, 21% Caneberry), and 15,107 page views to
pages
associated with the Spray Guide for Home Fruit (49% Apple and Pear, 17%
Grape,
16% Stone Fruit, 8% Blueberry, 7% Strawberry, 5% Caneberry). (In the
VCE
website, the PDF version of the commercial tree fruit guide received
13,399
visits, the commercial vineyard site received 4,775 visits, the
commercial
small fruit guide received 2,370 visits, and the home fruit guide
received 9,869
visits).
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