Millions of reasons for englishraven.com to celebrate!
I recently checked the English Raven site stats and noticed that it had recently clocked up its 1,000,000th (putting all the 000s there feels more impressive than writing "million", don't you think?) individual visitor. The exact figure I had on checking (today) was 1,034,958. It would have been nice to see who the 1,000,000th visitor was... Oh well, only missed him/her by 34,958 other visitors. I must pay more attention next time!
Wow. 1,000,000 people have visited the site. That is pretty cool to contemplate, but also kind of staggering. The site might not be a "big cheese" in web circles, but for a guy like me who barely knew how to use Microsoft Word to type up a resume when I started fiddling around with site building, I must say it is a pretty satisfying feeling seeing that number of visitors. It's also a humble reminder to me of just how many English teachers there are out there in the world, and by extension, how many English language learners. WOW!!!
Million (or rather "millions") is a magic figure for English Raven in other ways as well. 2007 saw the site get 1,148,267 hits, up from the year before when it got 1,006,202 hits. It's an interesting feeling to look back over the stats and see the first year (2001) with a grand total of 88 visitors and 1806 hits overall. Those 1800 hits were no doubt mostly from me, trying to work out how the heck to make the pages work...
All in all, English Raven has (as of today) accrued 4,405,532 hits over its 6-odd years of life on the world wide web. I think that gives the site, and the million visitors to its EFL/ESL resource cyber shores, plenty of reasons to celebrate!
If you're reading this and you were one of the 1,000,000 site visitors, my heartfelt thanks, and I hope whatever you found on the site gave you and your learners a more rewarding experience in the EFL/ESL classroom.
Rightio, then. Time to start setting our sights on 10,000,000 hits to the site...
Busy, busy, busy!

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