Google		66.5%
Yahoo		16.6%
MSN		11.2%
AOL		3.8%
Ask		0.9%

Our website is found on every major search engine.  Our latest webpage monitoring software lists over 2 dozen small search engines generating traffic to dogwoodceramics.com every month.

Internet Explorer		85.98%
Firefox		7.34%
Safari		4.94%
Mozilla		0.91%
Netscape		0.48%
Opera		0.14%

 

Microsoft Operating Systems are used by nearly 94% of all visitors to dogwoodceramics.com.

Microsoft		93.77%
Apple		5.05%
Linux		0.98%

Microsoft Operating Systems include Vista, XP, 2000, Windows98 etc.  Vista, Microsoft's newest Operating System has increased visitor count throughout 2007 and at year's end was about 12% of all Microsoft Operating System visitors to dogwoodceramics.com.  Windows 95 is still being used by 0.03% of the visitors to dogwoodceramics.com.

 

Ever been to a website that you had to use the horizontal slider to view much of the page content?  One reason for that problem could have been the browser window being improperly sized or the user setting the text size to a large size.  The other source of the that problem is the web page designer improperly designing the charts and displays on their web page.  Obviously the display information is extremely important to web site developers to properly design a web site for ease of visitor viewing and to properly, and visitors to dogwoodceramics.com are using a really wide variety of monitors to display web pages. 

800 pixel width or smaller		10%
1024 pixel width		47%
1280 pixel width		30%
1440 pixel width		6%
1680 pixel width		4%
1920 pixel width		1%

Based upon the information posted above, Dogwood Ceramic Supply feels we can design our website based upon 1024 pixel display width and met the needs of the majority of our customers while minimizing the amount of wasted white space for visitors using a wide screen monitor.

 

Over 93% of the visitors arriving to dogwoodceramics.com come via a high speed internet access such as cable, DSL, T1 or OC3.  Only 6.4% of the visitors to dogwoodceramics.com are using dialup service.  This information is important to all web developers as we try to provide the best quality displays that can be easily viewed by visitors to websites.   With high speed internet access readily available to most visitors, the need to scale down the size or quality of photographs is greatly reduced.

 

Geographically over 90% of all customers visiting dogwoodceramics.com come from various locations in the United States.  Canadian visitors account for nearly 3% of the visits to dogwoodceramics.com while the United Kingdom is almost 2%.  Visitors from a total of 114 countries visited dogwoodceramics.com during the last 30 days of 2007.  Within the United States, the number of visitors to dogwoodceramics.com are usually proportional to the population of the state.  Usually is a key word as visitors from states across the Mid-Gulf Region consistently rank higher than their respective populations:  Mississippi ranks #11, Louisiana ranks #17 and Alabama ranks #18.  As Dogwood Ceramic Supply is located in Mississippi it would seem reasonable that regional customers would account for a significant % of the visitors to dogwoodceramics.com.  Within Mississippi the largest concentration of visitors is from Jackson, followed by Gulfport and Biloxi.  Again, population distribution within the state as well as Dogwood's location would predict the Mississippi results.

 

The posted results will be updated at the end of 2008 or whenever the data warrants being updated.