Dear Readers

Before all, I seize the opportunity of this very first e-newsletter of the year 2016 to wish you a healthy and happy year 2016.

As usual, this year will be full of thrilling events which we all long for! The FCI World Dog Show will take place in Moscow and the different FCI Section Shows will be held in Brussels (FCI European Section Show), Bogota (FCI Americas and Caribbean Section Show) and Jakarta (FCI Asia and Pacific Section Show).

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Yves De Clercq
FCI Executive Director
FCI website: interesting facts and figures

The revamped FCI website was launched in August 2014 and it is still thrilling to monitor our traffic indicators!

The amount of information one can collect while examining the figures regarding our followers is just amazing. At the FCI General Secretariat, we strive for greater efficiency and we are keen to bring our users the accurate, timely information they search on the information sources we make available at www.fci.be.

The table below provides information about FCI website’s visits between January 1st and December 31st, 2015 Let’s have a look at the figures; you can turn this into a entertaining game by trying to guess (hide the right column )!

Number of sessions 1,279,274
Number of users 653,486
Number of page views 6,393,412
Number of pages viewed per session 5
Average time on page 00:03:21

Did you guess right???

The average number of sessions per day is as high as 3,505 and 1,790 unique users visit our website every day! Together they visit 17,516 pages per day - which corresponds to 5 pages each - spending an average of 3.21 minutes per visit!!! Getting dizzy?

We have more to tell you: please find the top-ten list of countries visiting FCI website (again, try to guess !):

1 Germany
2 Russia
3 France
4 Spain
5 Poland
6 Italy
7 Finland
8 Belgium
9 Czech Republic
10 Sweden

This top ten has not changed much since last time we reported on these figures…

For those who can cope with yet another spoonful of data, please check the following list: the top five of the most popular FCI website pages:

1 Results
2 Homepage
3 Kennel names
4 Schedules
5 Members

This top five has not changed at all since our last report.

These figures, together with the feedback we receive from the FCI community help us to assess our services and to work on the new functionalities we would like to offer you in the future. Thank you for your input!

Marie Luna Durán
FCI Marketing and Public Relations Manager