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UW-Stout Regular Season -- 2009-10

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Fritz62 said:
bored in menom?
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That sir is an oxymoron!

I just finally have the time to catch-up on my stories that sometimes get shoved to the backburner during the year.

I even re-designed another site of mine in a 5:30 a.m. bender the other night! :eek:

I see your coming back to Menom here shortly? A watering hole stop is in order.
 
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BDR, your sig says that your website is "DIII Hockey's most popular fan site". I'd like to see some data supporting that claim.:rolleyes:

Oh, and a hit counter that could easily be the same 3 people (you being one of them) hitting the "refresh" button 500 times doesn't count. :cool:
 
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CARDS_rule_the_Burgh said:
BDR, your sig says that your website is "DIII Hockey's most popular fan site". I'd like to see some data supporting that claim.:rolleyes:

Oh, and a hit counter that could easily be the same 3 people (you being one of them) hitting the "refresh" button 500 times doesn't count. :cool:
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Oh sure thing... :D

I use Alexa as my primary tool for tracking my sites rank. Alexa is the most popular web ranking company out there and has been around since 1996. I only know of two other sites similar to stouthockey.com. One of course being cardinalhockey.net and jackethockey.com for UW-Superior. Let's have a peak at some numbers.

Alexa Data
Cardinalhockey.net - Rank #24,752,857
Jackethockey.com - Rank #No Data (No data often suggests very limited traffic)
Stouthockey.com - Rank #2,265,785 (297,270 in U.S.)

Now you may cry foul because Jackethockey.com is a little inconclusive, though as mentioned no data is often a sign of very low traffic/popularity. Jackethockey.com is crawled by an analytical service known as Compete. Here are there numbers on Jackethockey.com

Compete
jackethockey.com - Unique visitors in November of 2009 - 30

I have looked at any and all analytical data I could find on all three sites before staking such a claim here on USCHO. There is nothing to hide in the traffic of my site, and your free to look at Google Analytic data from November of 2009. No cheesy PageCounter stats here....

Nov. 09 Traffic Data (Stouthockey.com)



Any piece of data I could find on any other site doesn't come close to the analytic data I'm seeing for Stouthockey.com ----

It's safe to say (:cool:) -- DIII hockey's most popular fan site
 
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BlueDevilRadio said:
Oh sure thing... :D

I use Alexa as my primary tool for tracking my sites rank. Alexa is the most popular web ranking company out there and has been around since 1996. I only know of two other sites similar to stouthockey.com. One of course being cardinalhockey.net and jackethockey.com for UW-Superior. Let's have a peak at some numbers.

Alexa Data
Cardinalhockey.net - Rank #24,752,857
Jackethockey.com - Rank #No Data (No data often suggests very limited traffic)
Stouthockey.com - Rank #2,265,785 (297,270 in U.S.)

Now you may cry foul because Jackethockey.com is a little inconclusive, though as mentioned no data is often a sign of very low traffic/popularity. Jackethockey.com is crawled by an analytical service known as Compete. Here are there numbers on Jackethockey.com

Compete
jackethockey.com - Unique visitors in November of 2009 - 30

I have looked at any and all analytical data I could find on all three sites before staking such a claim here on USCHO. There is nothing to hide in the traffic of my site, and your free to look at Google Analytic data from November of 2009. No cheesy PageCounter stats here....

Nov. 09 Traffic Data (Stouthockey.com)



Any piece of data I could find on any other site doesn't come close to the analytic data I'm seeing for Stouthockey.com ----

It's safe to say (:cool:) -- DIII hockey's most popular fan site
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Alexa also has No Data for pioneerposse.com, but Compete says that the number of unique visitors in November 2009 was 1,142. Even you have to admit that this is really close to yours, and the fact that these numbers fluctuate means they could easily pass you for December 2009!

Oh, and in July of 2009 (erm... the offseason), cardinalhockey.net had 1,432 unique visitors. Yes, they've dropped off significantly during the season, probably because all the information is readily available here at USCHO, but I would argue that the truly most popular would be the one that is most popular during the offseason... when logic would say that all these sites should have really LOW numbers of visitors!

All this data, while much more precise than a Hit Counter, proves only that stouthockey.com is very hot RIGHT NOW... and I would guess it's because of all the stuff you posted over break, and because all the Stout fans want an answer to "WHAT THE **** HAPPENED?"... and are hopeful for a better second semester.

Do you have any data for your website from the offseason?

EDIT: and I notice the average time spent on your site in 00:02:12... that's a really short time...
 
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I'm not trying to knock your site. You do a really good job. But so do the others, and so I'm trying to give them the respect they deserve by illustrating potential arguments against your claim.
 
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CARDS_rule_the_Burgh said:
Alexa also has No Data for pioneerposse.com, but Compete says that the number of unique visitors in November 2009 was 1,142. Even you have to admit that this is really close to yours!
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I never took Pioneerposse.com into account until now, however the information your using from compete is flawed. You'll notice above the graph on Compete you'll see an orange box stating "Small Sample - Datapoints are estimates." That is what I don't like about compete, even with a small sample, they theorize on what the traffic is instead of using hard data from an adequate sample. The Compete numbers on cardinalhockey.net, pioneerposse.com and jackethockey.com are all estimates by Compete, not real numbers.

For example, the number for pioneerposse.com as you stated was 1,142. If you look below the graph you'll see it states there was 1,142 Unique Visitors along with 1,142 Visits. That would mean 1,142 unique IP addresses (computers) came to the site only once in that month and never returned again during that time period. This again demonstrates these are flawed estimates by Compete.


CARDS_rule_the_Burgh said:
Oh, and in July of 2009 (erm... the offseason), cardinalhockey.net had 1,432 unique visitors. Yes, they've dropped off significantly during the season, probably because all the information is readily available here at USCHO.
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This is the opposite of what I've seen with Stouthockey.com. Traffic was lower during the off-season and has been slowly building and is finally just starting to level off. When big games happen or like the CSS goal call in overtime, obvious spikes occur. Not much to say during the summer months when all the players are home other than the occasional rule change or coach hiring/firing etc. Again, Competes data points are purely estimates because to see a site dropping way off during the season just isn't logical.

CARDS_rule_the_Burgh said:
EDIT: and I notice the average time spent on your site in 00:02:12... that's a really short time...
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I'm happy with 00:02:12, though I'd like to see it maybe around 3 or 4 minutes. It's been rising slowly since summer. That average time is knocked down every time someone comes on, checks to see if there is new content to read or view (photos, video etc.) and then exits right away. I won't complain too much about 2 minutes, that's an eternity for many Internet users to spend on one site.

No offense is taken by your prodding my signature. All the sites mentioned are great. I'm sure they are like me, run out of pocket. In addition to the cost of having the website up, countless hours per week creating content to post on the site. It's not easy work by any means. I wish more sites sprung up for other teams.
 
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Devils' Advocate & USCHO member Fritz62 practices at the Dunn Co. Rec Park as he performs a nice pull. Fritz62 prep's for any D3 fan base that may challenge the DA's supremacy in the near future. Especially those of the purple & gold variety.

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nysportsfan29 said:
Seriously, where are all the Stout fans? Any insight as to last weekend's games? Reasons for them losing it against Augsburg?
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nysportsfan - I think all the Stout fans are studying for that big 400-level calculus exam coming up during J-term. ;)
 
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nysportsfan29 said:
Seriously, where are all the Stout fans? Any insight as to last weekend's games? Reasons for them losing it against Augsburg?
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Not many students are in Menomonie right now, which means they aren't at the games home or away. I was at the Augsburg game and we played like **** in the third period. The biggest mistake was at the end of regulation when our third line was in with 30 seconds left and only up by 1.
 
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Indeed we don't have a lot of students in town with it being break. I was impressed by our turnout at Augsburg. We had a good 40 or so fans. Many of our loyal followers who live in the cities made the trip to downtown Minneapolis for the game.

As for Stout's play recently, it certainly is in need of improvement. I was thrilled after our UWRF series in which we looked in-sync with great flow on the ice and intensity. Especially from the 4th line of Grimstad, Knoepke and Carr. All three were teammates at Alexandria (NAHL) and their chemistry shows on the ice. It looked like we forgot whatever we put together in that series over break, perhaps too much eggnog? I'm not sure.

Really the achilles heel since opening night has been d-zone. With the injury to Bobby Kuehl the pairings have been shifted and some d-lines have two freshmen playing together and they sometimes make costly freshmen mistakes. If you don't have your d-zone figured out your not going to easily transition out to offense and really be stuck in a bad spot. That's been the case for Stout in some games this season. We are trapped in our own defensive zone because of bad turnovers and a messy transition game.

I think the locker room has lots of frustration and lots of young guys figuring out their role on the team. It will resolve with time, hopefully sooner than later.

The two freshmen goaltenders who have played all the minutes have been pretty solid for freshmen starting out of the gate. Hopper was out pretty quick due to injury but Lescovich has proven himself as a solid goaltender who will give the team a chance to win games.

The team is young due to the injuries to upperclassmen like Kuehl, Morin and Britton. Lots of freshmen are having to step up and fill roles due to loss of some talented upperclassmen.

It's been a roller coaster but Stout is still sitting in a commendable place in the NCHA. We're still within striking distance of the top spot and I hope we can continue improving as we move into playoff time. I've seen the guys play as a very talented and dangerous team, they just need to iron out the little things and come to play every night.

Fritz, how are those new blades treating you? Practicing for pond hockey supremacy I hope. :D Holler at me and I'll strap on the vapors and we'll dangle.
 
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