SVU Website in the 3rd Year of Operation

The new SVU Website at http://svu2000.org was established by Mila Rechcigl and Jiri Eichler at the end of the year indicated in its Internet address. In the first two years of operation, SVU Website has been visited by nearly eighteen thousand visitors. In the year 2002, it experienced traffic culmination in the month of June before the SVU Congress in Plzen. The Congress site was naturally at the top of visitors' interest. After the Plzen Congress, the most visited pages of SVU Website included the Congress Program in Detail and the SVU News - Electronic Issue No.3/02. The Congress Program remained frequently visited each month for the rest of the year 2002 and holds #5 position even in January 2003.

SVU News No.3/02 and 6/02 are recently the most wanted items among the SVU-related content of the SVU Website. SVU Website has actually two parts – the SVU On-line Library and the General Information content related to Czechs and Slovaks. The first part consists of fifteen main categories: Who Are We & What We Do, How to Join, SVU Milestones, Local Chapters, Executive Board, President's Corner, Calendar, SVU Meetings, Publications, Focus on Youth, Focus on Women, SVU Awards, Picture Gallery, SVU Forum, and SVU Contacts. Due to its rich content, the visitor's favorite SVU category is What We Do at http://svu2000.org/whatwedo. A special Women's Issues site at http://svu2000.org/women was launched in September 2002 and thanks to Lois Herman it has been continuously growing.

The top three positions in number of visits are in long-term held by items from the SVU Information and Reference Series: Czech and Slovak Genealogy, Czechoslovak Genealogy Sites on the Internet, and Czech and Slovak Societies in the US, which are however being accessed directly either in Czechoslovak America category or via search engines, where people look for specific keywords, mostly names of personalities. Czechoslovak Americana on the Net, which has itself a total of twenty pages, is also accessed directly very often. SVU Website has nine main categories of general nature, which are accessible by red buttons of the navigation bar on the main page. Czechoslovak America and Genealogy are the most widely visited categories. The other categories are: Czech & Slovak Issues, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, News from CR & SR, Conferences, Grants and Aid, Genealogy, and Other Links.

Nearly 50% of visitors come from the United States. Frequent visitors come from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, Australia, and recently also from Belgium, France and Hungary. The SVU Website has also been repeatedly visited by people connected to the Internet from the following countries (order by number of visits): Poland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Japan, Norway, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Luxembourg, Romania, Denmark, South Africa, Israel, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slavonia, Croatia, Georgia, Philippines, Morocco, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Venezuela, Uruguay, United Arab Emirates, Belize, Cyprus, Mexico, Singapore, SVU Website in the 3rd Year of Operation

The new SVU Website at http://svu2000.org was established by Mila Rechcigl and Jiri Eichler at the end of the year indicated in its Internet address. In the first two years of operation, SVU Website has been visited by nearly eighteen thousand visitors. In the year 2002, it experienced traffic culmination in the month of June before the SVU Congress in Plzen. The Congress site was naturally at the top of visitors' interest. After the Plzen Congress, the most visited pages of SVU Website included the Congress Program in Detail and the SVU News - Electronic Issue No.3/02. The Congress Program remained frequently visited each month for the rest of the year 2002 and holds #5 position even in January 2003.

SVU News No.3/02 and 6/02 are recently the most wanted items among the SVU-related content of the SVU Website. SVU Website has actually two parts – the SVU On-line Library and the General Information content related to Czechs and Slovaks. The first part consists of fifteen main categories: Who Are We & What We Do, How to Join, SVU Milestones, Local Chapters, Executive Board, President's Corner, Calendar, SVU Meetings, Publications, Focus on Youth, Focus on Women, SVU Awards, Picture Gallery, SVU Forum, and SVU Contacts. Due to its rich content, the visitor's favorite SVU category is What We Do at http://svu2000.org/whatwedo. A special Women's Issues site at http://svu2000.org/women was launched in September 2002 and thanks to Lois Herman it has been continuously growing.

The top three positions in number of visits are in long-term held by items from the SVU Information and Reference Series: Czech and Slovak Genealogy, Czechoslovak Genealogy Sites on the Internet, and Czech and Slovak Societies in the US, which are however being accessed directly either in Czechoslovak America category or via search engines, where people look for specific keywords, mostly names of personalities. Czechoslovak Americana on the Net, which has itself a total of twenty pages, is also accessed directly very often. SVU Website has nine main categories of general nature, which are accessible by red buttons of the navigation bar on the main page. Czechoslovak America and Genealogy are the most widely visited categories. The other categories are: Czech & Slovak Issues, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, News from CR & SR, Conferences, Grants and Aid, Genealogy, and Other Links.

Nearly 50% of visitors come from the United States. Frequent visitors come from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, Australia, and recently also from Belgium, France and Hungary. The SVU Website has also been repeatedly visited by people connected to the Internet from the following countries (order by number of visits): Poland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Japan, Norway, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Luxembourg, Romania, Denmark, South Africa, Israel, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Georgia, Philippines, Morocco, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Venezuela, Uruguay, United Arab Emirates, Belize, Cyprus, Mexico, Singapore, Greece, Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica. Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica.

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