EFA
Website Report 2002-2003
The playing season, September to April, features daily feeds of current news and these can best be found on the Latest News page and under the League, where grids and tables provide a picture of the current club league positions. In addition archival material, mainly from past EFA Annual Reports, continues to be added from time to time in order to provide as comprehensive a record of our sport as possible.
During the past twelve months the number of hits to the website has continued to rise. A major revamp of the web pages has taken place to include the author and date when the page was created. Further to the introduction last year of the Search and Site Map the headings of the Home Page have also been improved to enhance access and navigation within the website.
Risk assessment; poems; press cuttings; photographs; and bibliography have been added. Also tributes to former players D.M.Backhouse (Salopian) P.C.Curtis (Reptonian), J H Hale (Etonian), T E Manning (Citizen), G J Poke (Harrovian) and Dr G A Wheatley (Uppinghamian) and reports and results of the major competitions for 2002-2003.
New articles include:
‘Eton & Rugby Fives (1935)’Harrow School visit to Zuoz in 1990
Discovery of courts at Eaton School, Norwich
Courts at St Columba’s College, Dublin
Cambridge 1923-33 - T E Manning
Portugal Place – RIP
EFA Website – Early Beginnings
Ushaw College and the French Connection
How to Play and Coach Eton Fives
Handball: 3,000 Years Old - F P Aguirre
Zuoz – An insight into Fives in Switzerland
1994 World Handball Championships
1995 European One Wall Handball Championships
Glove Care for Prolonged Life
I am indebted to those computer buffs that regularly keep me on my toes by pointing out the odd error or two – a vital role to be played by all those visiting the website - and to Jon Wallis for his advice and the following Usage Summary.
EFA Website - Usage Summary January to June 2003
Visits to the site are up a very impressive 66% compared with the same period last year:• Number of separate visits to the site January to June 2003 = 53,292 Same period last year = 31,928
• Average number of visits per week to the site so far this year = 2131 Same period last year = 1277
The three most popular pages visited are, once again:
- • Latest News http://www.etonfives.co.uk/latest.news.html
• The Picture Gallery http://www.etonfives.co.uk/pictures/index.html
• About Eton Fives http://www.etonfives.co.uk/about.fives/index.html
The Schools, Clubs and Courts pages are then the next most popular parts of the site. A Usage Graph shows ‘visits per week’ for January to June 2003.
- • The pattern of visits so far this year is much more consistent than in previous years, with no particularly dramatic peaks or troughs requiring (or, more usually, defying) explanation.
• With the number of visits significantly up over previous years (yet again), and an increased consistency of visits, the website would now seem to be very well established as a major resource for the EFA – both for players (past and present) and for non-players interested in finding out more about our game. Great credit must go to Mike Fenn for all his hard work on the site over the past few years.
M.R.F./J.P.W.
Website Report 2002-2003 by Mike Fenn and Usage Summary by Jon Wallis
Created 11th September 2003
efa@etonfives.co.uk