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Who's Minding the Store?

By Rees Clark '60

Mid-day and early evening are the most popular times to visit TCHS Alumni News. Note the peak hours. Does the boss know what you're doing?

May 01, 2003 -- Big brother is watching you!

For a little over a year we've been tallying statistics on the site, and we've just had a crack team of analysts go over the data. Here are some salient results.

First, we're happy to report that we've sent out about 205,000 pages during our first year. The weekly page count varies between 3,500 and 7,000 pages.

Second, most people head straight for the Gallery. The most popular picture appears below (this is a shameless trick to get you to read the whole article).

Other popular destinations are the Forums and the Directory. If you haven't done so, you can look up any alumnus by first or last name, or you can see the list for any class. You can also send a message to any listed alumnus by clicking the little envelope in the listing. (No envelope means the address we have for them is obsolete; YOU can solve that problem with a phone call if you will do so.)

TCHS alumni are so cool that they have better things to do on the weekends.

Most of our readers appear during the week. For a long time, Wednesday was the most common day, but lately it's been edged out by Tuesday and Thursday.

Our staff sociologist says this is a result of current trends in demographics in the Midwest meat-packing industry, but we tend to discount that hypothesis.

(The lonely shut-ins who do visit on Saturday and Sunday have our sympathy.)

Note in the hourly chart above that the peak visiting times are just before the noon hour and just after. In our cynicism, we interpret this to mean that the boss takes a longer lunch than the TCHS alumni, leaving earlier and returning later.

Destination Photo

Pretty always works. This scene from the Oct. 2002 60-64 reunion has been the most visited photo in the alumni gallery.

PS: The charts in this article use the PNG file format. If you can't see them it's time to upgrade your browser; PNG is an emerging standard format for web graphics. If you're using a browser supplied by an online service, you could, of course, switch to our ISP, ContribuNet, and use any modern browser. There's no need to be constrained by what others choose to let you see.

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