In this issue of the RapidWeb Newsletter:

• Stats- who came from where and how often and how do you tell
• Welcome to new RapidWeb sites
• Good RapidWeb stories and comments needed- receive a month's free hosting!
• A note from Howard, Mike, Jodi and Jack

Stats- who came from where and how often

In every RapidWeb site there is a great deal of information about how often your site is being visited, which pages are most popular and where are these viewers coming from.

The simplest type of information is the MostPopular? pages report directly from RapidWeb. This reports shows you the 20 most popular pages on your site. The RapidWeb page that contains this information is called MostPopular? and can be accessed by entering the url: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?MostPopular.

You can easily create a link to this page from any page within your site. It is fast and shows you which pages beyond the home page users are visiting.

In addition you also have access to a more powerful and detailed view of the visitors to your site. These statisitics are available on every domain hosted on our servers and provide so much information you will be in statistics heaven (if there is such a place).

To get their simply enter the following:

http://www.yourdomain.com/stats

Of course these stats provide basic information as to the number of hits and user sessions at your site. In addition, you can also see which which browsers are being used( are most of our users using newer browsers?), which domains your visitors are coming from (are our users local or distant?) and which pages were requested that you hadn't thought someone would look for (do I need to add something to the site?) .

For an overview of how this information is gathered go to:

http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/results.html

If your site is new, it takes several weeks for the stats to appear. (In fact the stats kick in the first Monday of the month following initial setup.)

Let us know if you have any questions about your stats.

• Welcome to new RapidWeb sites

We have been adding RapidWeb sites at a very fast pace thanks to you. Some of our newest sites are:

Hamburg Chamber of Commerce http://www.hamburg-chamber.org Southern Tier Health Care Service (going live January 15, 2002) Cattaraugus County Rehabilitation http://www.rehabcenter.org (RapidWeb will be active Jan 1, 2002) SouthWest? Independant Living Center http://www.ilc-jamestown-ny.org Olean Ymca (going live January 15) Casey, Halwig and Hartle Funeral Home (going live January 30) Printing Plus of St. Marys http://ww2.printingplus.ws (Rapidweb will be active Dec 1, 2001)

• Good RapidWeb stories and comments needed

Since RapidWeb is so new we are always on the lookout for good user experiences that we can relay to potential customers. If you have a comment or story to share, send it along!. We will credit you a months free hosting for your effort and permission to use your comments.

• A note from Howard, Mike, Jodi and Jack

As many of you know, as of November 15th we have closed down our retail operation on North Union St. Jack is retiring and Howard, Jodi and Mike are focusing their efforts on the "virtual" side of the business. On December 6th there is a final auction where you be able to get great deals on all remaining inventory, office equipment and collectibles. Our phone number will stay the same as will our e-mail and web support services. Our commitment to you is to continually improve our internet network related services and support and we believe that this change will allow us to do so.

We hope you had a happy Thanksgiving and hope that your holidays are equally joyous.

Mike, Jodi and Howard Blumenthal