Volume 13, Number 2, July-August 2009
BibleStudy.org averaging 10,000 daily visitors
14 Years of
Independent Ministry
This recently found photo was taken at the 1995 Feast of
Tabernacles. Norman Edwards, left, and Alan Ruth, right, were both committed
to serve the Sabbath-keeping brethren in a non-denominational manner. Ruth
encouraged Edwards to publish Servants’ News, including Ruth’s articles, and
Edwards encouraged Ruth to start biblestudy.org. Since then, the two have
worked together at other Feasts, conferences, etc. Both were mainframe
computer professionals by trade. They have struggled for subsistence-level
funding throughout most of their ministries, which is especially amazing in
Ruth’s case, since his website reaches more people than most Sabbatarian
evangelistic programs. & |
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"For the first six months of 2008, BibleStudy.org
experienced only two days where its daily visitor count exceeded 10,000.
For the first six months of 2009, however, the site has averaged more
than 10,000 daily visitors. Additionally, the site's Question and Answer
service which is manned by seven mature Christians handled 785 e-mailed
questions from the general public."
"This performance has been especially encouraging and
exciting since, historically, the second half of a given year is the
site's busiest period." states Alan.
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BibleStudy.org Web Site
Statistics (January 1 to Total Number of Visitors: 1,865,230
for daily average of 10,305 visitors. Total No. Web pages viewed: 4,078,562 for
daily average of 22,533 pages viewed. Increase in visitors compared to same period in 2008: 443,099 or
31% Increase in web pages viewed com- pared to same period in 2008: 704,582
or 21% No. of Email Questions Handled: 785 No. of Email Questions Handled since service started
Oct. 2002: 8,357 Busiest Day in Site History:
Busiest Month in Site
History: April 2009 (346,742 actual visitors, 718,847 Web pages viewed) Average Time Visitor Spent on Site: 5 minutes God
has increased BibleStudy.org's ability to reach the world with the Gospel
every year since its inception. God willing, 2009 will be the 14th
consecutive year BibleStudy.org will experience increases in BOTH number of
visitors and number of Bible Study materials accessed. |
For the first half of 2009 BibleStudy.org drew 1,865,230
visitors or an average of 10,305 a day and served more than 4 million Web pages.
This denotes an exceptional increase in site traffic of 31% above the same
period in 2008. Visitors now average a record five (5) minutes accessing the
site's quality Bible study materials.
Alan projects the site will attract 3.8+ million visitors this
year and will exceed last year's visitor total sometime during 2009's Feast of
Tabernacles.
Donations to defray costs of effectively
reaching the world with the gospel can be made by credit card at https://dxdc2.secureserving.net/~barnabas/order.php or by
check to: Barnabas Ministries,
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