1997
Annual Report

Expansion of the CCSI Web site

When we started our Internet work in 1994, CCSI was among the first organizations to recognize the power of the Internet for linking and publicizing the work of grassroots, democratic initiatives around the globe. Since that time many thousands of organizations have established Web sites or initiated listservs, but a large number of these still fail to update their sites or routinely post items to a listserv.[Note 1]

Over the course of 1997, CCSI Web site manager Deirdre Shelly oversaw the work of 10 interns and volunteers, and together they more than doubled the content on our site, for the second straight year, and updated hundreds of files.

An analysis of our site using Webtrends software revealed that during December 1997�a major holiday period, and therefore a possible understatement of activity at our site�the CCSI Web site recorded 118,510 file requests, 56,018 page views, and 19,093 user sessions. On a daily basis, this represented an average of 3,822 daily file requests, 1,807 page views and 615 user sessions per day.

How did these numbers compare to the first of the year? Between January and December 1997, the number of page views per day at our site rose from 600 to 1,807, while user sessions per day rose from 342 to 615. The larger growth in page views (201%) over user sessions (80%) is a function of the CCSI site�s growth in size�which gave rising numbers of visitors an even more rapidly-growing number of documents to view.

Notes:

1 See �Changes On Non-Profit Sites Are Fairly Rare, Report Says,� The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 21, 1997, p. 29. The article cited an analysis of 600 Web sites of youth charities which found that more than half of all pages had not been updated in more than two months.

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