It’s fascinating to watch Archnet‘s real-time statistics in Google Analytics. There’s no reason why I need to monitor the statistics in real-time, but it is definitely interesting to see how many people are using the site and any specific time, where they are from, and what they are looking at.
Yesterday afternoon was interesting.  When I checked in just after 3:00 pm EST, there were 21 users on Archnet from 11 different countries, as shown in the screen capture. Our visitor numbers can vary significantly depending on the time of day, but in general it stays pretty busy from noon to about 20:00 hours GMT. In general Archnet gets the most visitors from India, the United States, and Egypt, in that order. So it follows that these would be our busiest time.  12:00 GMT is 14:00 in Cairo, 07:00 in Boston, and 17:30 in Mumbai.  So while most residents of Asia are  finishing the business day, people in North America are getting ready to start it. Conversely, by the time most people have gone to bed in Mumbai, most people in North America have 3-5 hours left in the work day, depending on time zone.
The ordering of locations in the image above is unusual in that at that particular moment more people were accessing from Egypt than any other country.  Usually India or the United States is at the top of the list. That said, it is not surprising, as this week Archnet’s home pages focus on the city of Cairo.  Four visitors were accessing sites in Cairo, including the record for Manzil Zaynab Khatun, plans for the Aslam Mosque, and early 20th c. photographs of Masjid Qanibay al-Muhammadi.
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Two people were accessing the biographies of architects, one the record for the contemporary firm Anupama Kundoo Architect, on the other the biography of the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. One person was on the record for the book Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East, probably preparing to download the book or a section thereof.
Sometimes there is an obvious connection between where the visitors are coming from and the pages listed as active during that time. As mentioned above, given that six active users came from Egypt, it’s not surprising that at least four of the active pages are related to Egypt. Perhaps it was the visitor from India who accessed the record for the Neemrana Fort-Palace Revitalisation in Neemrana, India, and maybe it was the visitor from Jordan who was consulting the record for the Children’s Museum in Amman, but it is not possible to know for sure. At the time that these statistics were captured, users were accessing site plans for the Islamic Cemetery in Attach, Austria, and photographs of the Social Housing Project in Gafsa, Tunisia, and the record for the Medical Center in Mopti, Mali, yet there were no visitors from Austria, Tunisia, or Mali.  There were no visitors from Syria either, yet a user was consulting one of the Aleppo collections in the archive of renowned scholar Yasser Tabbaa.
I sometimes wish I could actually contact our visitors to ask them about their experience, what they were looking at, and why. It would be interesting to know, but of course that’s not possible.  Google Analytics are aggregated and it certainly isn’t possible to trace specific users. Still, it is fun to explore the stats and wonder…