RHS'69
Who's knocking on our door
Websites are interesting things.
Think of a space where you spread
out your stuff and wait for people to
walk by and look at what's there.
A flea market might come to mind.
If you have good stuff, people spend
some time rummaging around and maybe they'll come back later to look for new stuff. If your stuff is junk or nothing new gets added, they won't bother.
Websites take a lot of work changing stuff on a regular basis. You can spend hours just on graphics. Successful websites are adjusted daily. Maybe minor changes, maybe major but in the end they get a lot of attention.
Running a website is like being in a friendship. Ignore it and things get dull real fast. And if a website has no personality, it becomes like that strange guy at a party - hanging out in a corner by himself and no one really cares.
We get a lot of visitors...a half-million a year...and growing. The most popular feature on the website are the blogs. People like reading other people's stories, and RHS'69 alumni do some interesting and fun things. We sometimes forget Hawaii is a very special place and there's curiosity about it, and us, all over the world. Most people are envious of our beautiful islands and the wonderful people who call it home. We are special and proud of who we are.
One common question is where these visitors come from. The answer is... everywhere in the world. Check the list to the right.
That's a random sampling of the location of some visitor IP addresses last month. We had over 50-thousand visitors in December so we just took a random selection of about 80 and then took a look at 5, also randomly selected.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Chicago, Illinois
Fountain Valley, California
Ischia, Italy
Somewhere in Ireland
Angeles City, Philippines
Manteca, California
Miami, Florida
Seattle, Washington
Yangon, Myanmar
Auburn, Washington
Oakland, California
Somewhere in Germany
Ashburn, Virginia
Gurnee, Illinois,
Denver, Colorado
San Diego, California
Somewhere in Kentucky
Cicero, Illinois
Topeka, Kansas
Clemmons, N. Carolina
Zuni, New Mexico
Dimondale, Michigan
Riverside, California
Culver City, California
Fargo, North Dakota
Georgetown, Texas
Moradabad, India
Fairmont, West Virginia
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kaifeng, Henan, China
Kirkland, Washington
Bowie, Maryland
Vienna, Wien, Austria
Sri Lanka
Hyderabad, India
Bangkok, Thailand
New York, United States
Los Angeles, California
Yuzhou, Fujian, China
Hanoi, Vietnam
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Satellite Beach, Florida
Melbourne, Florida
West Jordan, Utah
Napa, California
Singapore, Singapore
San Antonio, Texas
Houston, Texas
Helsinki, Finland
Oakley, California
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Boardman, Oregon
Vienna, Austria
Ashburn, Virginia
Fort Worth, Texas
Nairobi, Kenya
Suva, Fiji
Alameda, California
Bergamo, Italy
Websites that mention Hawaii always seem to get a lot of internet visitors. Must be something to do with beaches, warm weather and Hula girls.
RHS'69 gets a lot of internet visitors which may be a bit harder to explain.
Maybe it's just a fun place to check out. Webmaster Courtney Harrington takes a look at some of the people (and some of the places) that dropped by to see what's happening.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Read Courtney's other blogs: The Year of the Pig, Have we been busy Part I, The right place at the right time
You might have noticed no one from Russia, Japan and Indonesia on the list. They visit the site a lot, but didn't show up in the random addresses we grabbed. Japan, at times, can have the most visitors to the website.
So now you know. There's all those thousands of people - and there's you.
Thanks for stopping by.
Finally, Ischia, Italy is a volcanic island
some 19 miles from Naples. The island is
crowded with 60,000 residents. Its main
industry is tourism as European (especially German) and Asian tourists come for the natural volcanic activity, the hot springs, and the volcanic mud.
Clemmons, North Carolina has almost 20-thousand people and it's a village and not a town. It's about 10 miles from Winston-Salem. It has it's own political turmoil. The Village Council voted to add a median on a main road. Local businesses were not happy and banded together and defeated three incumbents up for reelection. That'll teach them for messing with the roads.
The colder the weather the more people drop
by. Our guess they're looking for a warm place
like "Hawaii" and we show up a lot for that.
Lucky we live here. The day the person from
Fargo, North Dakota stopped by the weather
service showed it was 14-degrees
and snowing there. But in the
summer when the temperature
hits the low 80's, Fargo blossoms into a pretty city.
The biggest recent controversy there was whether
the city should put parking meters on the streets.
At the other end, someone visited
from Boardman, Oregon, population 3,200. Farming potatoes and making cheese are the main businesses in that town. Boardman is on the Columbia River so sailing, boating, camping and fishing are big things.
There's lots of open space and it
looks like a nice place to live.
They come from big cities like New York or Yangon, Myanmar - population 5-million. If Myanmar doesn't sound familiar, try Rangoon. That's what it used to be called. It's a poor city with some serious problems, but the people are known for being very nice. Part of the old British Burma from long ago.