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Facts about the Global FlyFisher

Published Nov 27th 2011

This is page has been put together to give you an impression of what the Global FlyFisher is.

By Martin Joergensen

The Global FlyFisher is a web site for fly fishers and fly tyers - and to some extend for outdoors people in general. The site has a very long history, dating back to the beginning of the Internet era in 1994, and our oldest articles are from that period.

The site is run by me: Martin Joergensen, a Danish fly angler, aided by three partners, Bob Petti and Steve Schweitzer from the US and Kasper Mühlbach from Denmark as well as a large group of outside contributors.
The Global FlyFisher is a non-commercial web site which has no ads or sponsors and no sources of income, but is run as a work of love at our own expenses. We all have full time jobs, and both our own material and that from outside contributors is done as unpaid work.

We serve internationally flavored fly fishing related content to the whole world. The site contains more than 2,000 articles and more than 30,000 pictures. Our contributors come from all over the globe - pros and amateurs, seasoned writers and beginners.
We feature all things fly fishing and fly tying related like pattern recipes, fishing and gear advice, book and DVD reviews, videos and much more.
We serve more than one and a half a million pages a month
We are a high traffic web site (at least for a fly-fishing site):

  • We have 6-10,000 unique visitors a day
  • We have 250-300,000 visits a month
  • We serve more than one and a half a million pages a month
  • A typical article is seen several hundred times a day when it's published
  • Our most viewed articles have been seen 20-50,000 times (see more numbers here)
These numbers are steadily growing (with seasonal fluctuations).

We're always on the lookout for new ideas, new content and new contributors, so feel free to contact us if you have something fly fishing related on your heart. We're also interested in working with authors, film makers, artists and other people who produce relevant material.

Some graphs for the last couple of years for those who want numbers. The numbers are taken directly from our Hostgator server stats. Latest months are at the top. The reason for the drop in traffic in the spring months is simply the start of the fishing season in the northern hemisphere. As soon as people can get out to fish, they surf less! And the disastrous July 2011 was due to another period with the server blues. We had severe technical problems, had to move to a new server, reprogram our system and had long periods of downtime.

Visits per month
Apr 2013277,350
Mar 2013305,679
Feb 2013251,881
Jan 2013283,620
Dec 2012273,439
Nov 2012245,250
Oct 2012231,767
Sep 2012211,290
Aug 2012210,491
Jul 2012237,591
Jun 2012254,004
May 2012252,698
Apr 2012241,494
Mar 2012307,135
Feb 2012288,344
Jan 2012284,131
Dec 2011252,134
Nov 2011243,075
Oct 2011227,711
Sep 2011208,968
Aug 2011207,140
Jul 201196,552
Jun 2011193,093
May 2011200,495
Apr 2011188,459
Latest 12 months 2.8 million visits

Average unique visits per day
Apr 20139,245
Mar 20139,861
Feb 20138,996
Jan 20139,149
Dec 20128,821
Nov 20128,175
Oct 20127,476
Sep 20127,043
Aug 20126,790
Jul 20127,664
Jun 20128,467
May 20128,152
Apr 20128,050
Mar 20129,908
Feb 20129,943
Jan 20129,166
Dec 20118,133
Nov 20118,103
Oct 20117,346
Sep 20116,966
Aug 20116,682
Jul 20113,115
Jun 20116,436
May 20116,468
Apr 20116,282


Pages served per month
Apr 20131,693,603
Mar 20131,884,946
Feb 20131,303,604
Jan 20131,467,823
Dec 20121,373,908
Nov 20121,452,837
Oct 20121,400,415
Sep 20121,310,142
Aug 20121,491,137
Jul 20121,737,599
Jun 20121,640,567
May 20121,356,850
Apr 20121,415,419
Mar 20121,782,567
Feb 20121,903,987
Jan 20121,571,347
Dec 20111,482,151
Nov 20111,366,515
Oct 20111,455,336
Sep 20111,159,527
Aug 20111,025,835
Jul 2011424,619
Jun 2011895,805
May 2011909,219
Apr 2011758,240
Latest 12 months 16.8 million pages

Pages served per day
Apr 201356,453
Mar 201360,805
Feb 201346,557
Jan 201347,349
Dec 201244,320
Nov 201248,428
Oct 201245,175
Sep 201243,671
Aug 201248,101
Jul 201256,052
Jun 201254,686
May 201243,769
Apr 201247,181
Mar 201257,502
Feb 201265,655
Jan 201250,689
Dec 201147,811
Nov 201145,551
Oct 201146,946
Sep 201138,651
Aug 201133,091
Jul 201113,697
Jun 201129,860
May 201129,330
Apr 201125,275


And while we're looking at numbers:
If we try to predict some 2012-numbers based on the latest 6-12 months, the coming year will be a year with about 3 million individual viewing sessions covering about 17 million pages... pretty hefty.
February 2012 was our best month ever, and based on that alone the numbers will be more like 3.5 million sessions covering 23 million pages. Amazing!

We will do our best to serve the best possible content to all these people.

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User comments
From: biesot·at·octrooibureau.nl  Link
Submitted November 28th 2011

Thank you for all the hard work all those years.

Best regards ,
Tom Biesot.


From: Santi R.  Link
Submitted November 27th 2011

Congratulations guys! Those numbers shows how good you have been doing it.

Thanks a lot and keep going!



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