Davidsouthconsulting.com Ranked 920,811 in Alexa Million Sites | 30 October 2015
In a world of more than 7 billion people, coming in the top million websites is humbling. The website ranking service Alexa compiles a list of the Top Million Sites in the world. And davidsouthconsulting.com comes in at 920,811. Published on a shoestring, the website comes packed with content and insights gleaned from over two decades' work around the world.
With all the changes made to search since 2015 by Google and others, the davidsouthconsulting.com website has seen its traffic diminished. As news reports have revealed, search engines and social media outlets have facilitated content in order to drive traffic and harvest data (data=profits). And there has been a flood of content intended to either deceive, stoke hatred or just get people to look ('click bait').
But, considering the website was never meant to be more than a shop window to the brand and a tool for connecting with existing and potential clients, the amount of traffic the website has received to date (plus the many citations in books, papers, and on websites), means it has far exceeded its design specifications and expectations (thank you to our graphic designer Solveig Rolfsdottir who built the website back in 2010!).
The impact of the positive, factual, high-quality resources on the davidsouthconsulting.com website (much of it work done for the United Nations), has been considerable. And it is now possible to compare that with the proliferation of so-called 'fake news' and corrupt news/influence operations (news agencies such as 'South-South News'. Read more about this case here: The Strange Saga of 'South-South News').
With the South-South News case, the UN found itself colluding with, and receiving funds from, an Interpol watch list individual involved in human and sex trafficking, among many other crimes, along with, money laundering and bribery. The attempt to establish essentially an industrial scale sex Kompromat operation in Macau (or a 'Kompromat Laundromat' if you will) (for background on how this works, read The Bro Code: Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China by James Palmer, China File, February 4, 2015) - called by a former UN official in charge of the organisation's anti-human trafficking work a world centre of modern human slave trafficking - masquerading as a US $3 billion new UN Asia facility - a "Geneva of Asia" - ranks as a new low point for the organization. Apart from the actual arrests and jail sentences, the poor judgement made by the UN to back such an entity can only now be seen in the context of the court case revelations, confessions, and convictions, which all centered on a deliberate attempt to bribe officials and launder money. It seems this particular operation had a Caribbean focus for money laundering out of China: Macau is a known conduit for expatriating money from China; the Caribbean is well known as a destination for laundered funds.
Further resource: China's Building Projects in Africa Are a Spymaster's Dream (Foreign Policy, May 21, 2020).
The data
Whilst our Alexa ranking had been as high as 920,811 in 2015, according to WebsiteOutlook, the Alexa ranking as of October 2017 was 10,208,460. According to W3Lookup.com, davidsouthconsulting.com has a world wide web ranking of 15,821,211. According to InternetValue.stream, davidsouthconsulting.com experienced an Alexa Global position domain change of -2,476 (ouch! - thanks Google) from 2015 to 2017.
Google Analytics
2019
January 2019: 271 Users and 295 Sessions (January 2018: 42 Users and 58 Sessions).
2018
December 2018: 148 Users and 170 Sessions.
November 2018: 106 Users and 127 Sessions.
October 2018: 108 Users and 121 Sessions.
September 2018: 142 Users and 177 Sessions.
August 2018: 325 Users and 357 Sessions.
July 2018: 118 Users and 151 Sessions. Average session duration: 02:26 minutes. Referrals: 62.5%. Organic search: 33.11%.
June 2018: 163 Users and 187 Sessions.
May 2018: 122 Users and 161 Sessions.
April 2018: 72 Users and 111 Sessions.
March 2018: 89 Users and 127 Sessions.
February 2018: 41 Users and 55 Sessions.
January 2018: 42 Users and 58 Sessions.
Mobile Weekly Stats
2019
January:
January 28-February 3: 29 Visits and 105 Page Views.
2018
December:
November 26-December 2: 24 Visits and 48 Page Views.
November:
19-25: 21 Visits and 51 Page Views.
12-18: 23 Visits and 45 Page Views.
5-11: 24 Visits and 50 Page Views.
October 9-November 4: 20 Visits and 57 Page Views.
October:
15-21: 36 Visits and 61 Page Views.
8-14: 14 Visits and 17 Page Views.
1-7: 17 Visits and 38 Page Views.
September:
24-30: 35 Visits and 110 Page Views.
17-23: 18 Visits and 34 Page Views.
10-16: 49 Visits and 132 Page Views.
3-9: 20 Visits and 30 Page Views.
August 27-September 2: 26 Visits and 59 Page Views.
August:
20-26: 27 Visits and 55 Page Views.
13-19: 16 Visits and 44 Page Views.
6-12: 24 Visits and 46 Page Views.
July 30-August 5: 28 Visits and 57 Page Views.
July:
23-29: 22 Visits and 38 Page Views.
16-22: 25 Visits and 78 Page Views.
9-15: 35 Visits and 62 Page Views.
2-8: 34 Visits and 77 Page Views.
2017
2016
May:
9-15: 23 Visits and 31 Page Views.
2-8: 14 Visits and 26 Page Views.
April:
18-24: 16 Visits and 25 Page Views.
4-10: 14 Visits and 23 Page Views.
March:
7-13: 41 Views and 47 Page Views.
February 29-March 6: 14 Views and 18 Page Views.
February:
22-28: 15 Visits and 47 Page Views.
15-21: 16 Visits and 23 Page Views.
January:
18-24: 18 Visits and 31 Page Views.
4-10: 7 Visits and 9 Page Views.
December 28-January 3: 16 Visits and 27 Page Views.
2015
December:
21-27: 27 Visits and 34 Page Views.
7-13: 9 Visits and 12 Page Views.
November 30-December 6: 15 Visits and 18 Page Views.
November:
2-8: 11 Visits and 16 Page Views.
October:
19-25: 8 Visits and 14 Page Views.
12-18: 11 Visits and 20 Page Views.
5-11: 10 Visits and 12 Page Views.
September 28-October 4: 5 Visits and 5 Page Views.
September:
7-13: 12 Visits and 20 Page Views.
August:
24-30: 17 Visits and 19 Page Views.
10-16: 7 Visits and 8 Page Views.
July 27-August 2: 16 Visits and 49 Page Views.
July:
20-26: 12 Visits and 45 Page Views.
13-19: 32 Visits and 96 Page Views.
6-12: 49 Visits and 165 Page Views.
Source: Duda Mobile
In 2008, we began a reader response experiment on crowd-powered news website NowPublic for the stories published in the e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions (for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation). By 2012, 201 Development Challenges, South-South Solutions stories were posted on the NowPublic platform, with a total of 336,289 views, according to the NowPublic counter (reaching 420,151 views by 31 July 2013).
Our online content receives traffic from around the world. In 2017, the countries visiting our WordPress website are as follows (from highest to lowest number of views):
Davidsouthconsulting.org:
United Kingdom, United States, Canada, India, Netherlands, Germany, Panama, South Korea, Brazil, Philippines, France, European Union, Indonesia, Italy, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Kenya, Norway, Ireland, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Pakistan, Somalia, Hong Kong (China), Slovakia, Peru, Jamaica, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Ghana, Sweden, Jordan, China, Bangladesh, Spain, Cote d'Ivoire, Bahamas, Colombia, St. Kitts & Nevis, Tunisia, Finland, Egypt, Denmark, Russia, Chile, Botswana, Uganda, Algeria, Argentina, Portugal, Tanzania, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Albania, Swaziland, Barbados, New Zealand, Iraq, Mongolia, Israel, Cambodia, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Sudan, Maldives, Djibouti, Cyprus, Cameroon, Madagascar, Belize, Switzerland, Senegal, Malawi, Benin, Macedonia, Slovenia, Lebanon, Rwanda, Guernsey, Lithuania, Japan (Source: WordPress).
2018
Davidsouthconsulting.org:
United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Canada, France, India, Philippines, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Australia, Japan, Kenya, Turkey, Brazil, Mongolia, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, South Africa, China, Romania, Ghana, Poland, Singapore, Hungary, Malaysia, Austria, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Slovakia, Russia, Egypt, Belgium, Argentina, Thailand, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Iceland, Israel, Malta, Taiwan, Jordan, Jersey, European Union, Mexico, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Curacao, Sri Lanka, Zambia (Source: WordPress).