EFA
Website Report 2003-2004
The Website
Throughout the year ‘daily’ feeds of current news can be found under Latest News and during the playing season the League results and tables are constantly updated. New articles are added from time to time, the most recent include:About Eton Fives (www.etonfives.co.uk/about.fives/index.html)
Fives in Nigeria and the UK - A comparison by Adamu Yakabu
About the Association (www.etonfives.co.uk/information/strategy.html)
1995 Policy Statement (Interesting to compare with the 2004 Forward Look)
Launch of the Rugby & Eton Fives Coaching Agency (REFCA) in 1995
2003 Reports - Chairman, Treasurer, Administrator, International and REFCA
Clubs & Sports Centres (www.etonfives.co.uk/clubs/adult.fives.html)
1998 Article – What’s Wrong with Adult Fives?
Old Salopians 50th Celebrations
Westway 2003 Report
Schools & Preparatory Schools (www.etonfives.co.uk/schools/index.html)
Fives at Repton – extract from Boy, Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
‘Famous Antient Seed-Pot of Learning’ – extract from the History of Ipswich School
Fives at Berkhamsted -The Old Berkhamstedian Spring 1997
Fives in Australia – Geelong Grammar School 1998
Articles (www.etonfives.co.uk/articles/index.html)
Warminster & West Country Fives – Article by Tony Baden-Fuller
On the Death of John Cavanagh – William Hazlitt (1773-1830)
In addition the 2002-2003 Tournament and Competition reports, Championship winners, League results and tables and many new photographs have been added.
I remain indebted to those members who regularly bring to my attention the odd gremlin or two that creep in from time to time and to Jon Wallis for his invaluable advice and the following Usage Summary.
Usage Summary 2003-2004
Visits to the site are up a very pleasing 20% compared with the last reporting year:• Number of visits to the site July 2003- July 2004 = 105,581 (July 2002 – June 2003 = 87,689)
Incidentally, if visits to the EFA website were a share price, we’d all be doing rather nicely, as they’ve more than doubled in the past two years or so.
The two most popular pages visited are consistently:
• Latest News http://www.etonfives.co.uk/latest.news.html
• About Eton Fives http://www.etonfives.co.uk/about.fives/index.html
However, the Picture Gallery has now been edged out of its usual third place by a mixture of Articles, Results & Tournaments, and Clubs & Schools pages.
A Usage Graph shows ‘visits per week’ July 2003 to June 2004.- • The noticeable “dip and spike” at the start presumably reflect the summer holiday period, followed by the start of the Fives season.
• The November spike could well be people looking for the London Tournament Results, and that in January could be the result of The Graves Cup and the Alan Barber Cup results appearing.
• The spike around late March 2004 would seem to correspond with the HSBC Schools National Championships and the Preparatory Schools Championships results.
Our thanks should again go to Mike Fenn for all his hard work in making the EFA website such a continued success.
M.R.F./J.P.W.
Website Report 2003-2004 by Mike Fenn and Usage Summary by Jon Wallis
Created 17th December 2004 by Mike Fenn
efa@etonfives.co.uk