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.

Davidsouthconsulting.com ranks at 920,811 in Alexa Top Million Sites.

"Davidsouthconsulting.com traffic estimate is about 88 unique visitors and 176 pageviews per day. The approximated value of davidsouthconsulting.com is 2,920 USD. Every unique visitor makes about 2 pageviews on average. Alexa Traffic Rank estimates that davidsouthconsulting.com is ranked number 188,469 in the world."

Update on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 9:02AM by David South

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

Update on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:51AM by David South

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). 

Update on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10:08AM by David South

As of March 2020, the davidsouthconsulting.com website has a global ranking of 4,434,919. It has been as high as 920,811 (2015) and as low as 15,821,211 (2017). 

CuteState.com ranking for davidsouthconsulting.com as of March 2020.

On 10 April 2020, according to Alexa, davidsouthconsulting.com ranked at 3,838,096 in the world.

According to StatsCrop, davidsouthconsulting.com has a global ranking of 544,000 and daily visitors of 700.   

Update on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 2:51AM by David South

As of October 2020, Nibbler claims davidsouthconsulting.com is globally ranked at 6,515,975.

Southern Innovator on PressReader Platform | 14 October 2015

Southern Innovator's fifth issue is now available for browsing on the PressReader platform. PressReader helps Southern Innovator reach even more readers. It does this through a PressReader app, allowing readers to create a personal news feed, and download complete issues of magazines and newspapers as they appear in print. A digital magazine rack and personal news wire service in one.

Issues 1 to 4 will also be available in the coming weeks. PressReader is based in Richmond, BC, Canada and "delivers an endless stream of top news stories to read, discuss and share. Get full issues of thousands of top newspapers and magazines just as they appear in print."

Southern Innovator on PressReader

Southern Innovator Scale-Up Begins: Get on Board! | 4 June 2015

 

Southern Innovator achieved a great deal during its first phase. The magazine’s concept was beta tested as five issues were developed and rolled out across the global South. Feedback and comments came in from around the world and the magazine was refined based on user responses and experience.

During this time, a plan was developed to scale-up Southern Innovator over the next five years. We would like to do this in two phases. Contact us to learn more about the plan, what resources we require and how to get involved. What is on offer is truly remarkable: an ability to connect with the best and brightest of the global South at the very moment they are shaping the new world of the 21st century. Many have failed to grasp this opportunity and thus have been heavily damaged during the economic crisis; principally because they have failed to understand profound global changes and to see how they can use them to improve what they are doing (though, if they had been reading Southern Innovator, they would have been very clued up!).

Southern Innovator is a product of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), so it is able to directly plug into the UN’s network of global resources helping countries and people. This is a substantial resource and not to be overlooked. Getting involved gets you plugged in and switched on!

http://www.davidsouthconsulting.com/case-studies/southern-innovator-magazine-2015-2017.html

Southern Innovator Summary of Impact 2015

Reflecting on What Has Been Accomplished: The David South Consulting Impact Summary | 27 March 2015

 

The title David South Consulting Summary of Impact is now available online. It covers work undertaken around the world from 1997 to 2014. This has included the rising use of the Internet to communicate, publishing during a major crisis, the campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), modernizing online health resources and how hospital’s communicate in the 21st century, and chronicling some of the most powerful trends sweeping the planet as the global South increases its wealth. 

As powerful information technologies find their way to even the remotest and poorest places on earth, what is communicated on these platforms becomes more and more important. While governments may believe they can ring-fence and hold back the spreading of ideas – both good and bad, negative and positive – ideas will spread because human beings are ingenious communicators. Even if mobile phones and the Internet were to disappear tomorrow, people would find other ways to spread ideas. The future will be ever-more shaped by those who can spread useful ideas even faster. With the right idea, a problem can be tackled or solved. Most of the problems plaguing today’s world can be solved. The advances made in science and technology in the past half century are mind-boggling and many innovations are held back because of fear societies are just not ready to adapt, or because certain interest groups would rather not share what should be a common human inheritance. A simple newsletter, humble in its design, can have a profound impact if the content resonates with people’s dreams and aspirations; if the knowledge and ideas it contains makes them more powerful or able to act.

A magazine can be so much more than just pretty pictures and nice colours if its content captures a common and shared experience neglected by other media. Southern Innovator magazine is an example of this at work.

David South Consulting Summary of Impact

© David South Consulting 2017

Reflecting on What Has Been Accomplished: The Southern Innovator Impact Summary | 14 January 2015

 

The 2012 to 2014 Summary of Impact for Southern Innovator has been published. It sums up what has been achieved to date, details the top features of the magazine and why it is the way it is, and, most importantly, makes a pitch for the magazine continuing past the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline year of 2015. Southern Innovator was founded to aid in the push to achieve the MDGs as the final years approached. It seized on two phenomena running in parallel that could super-charge the meeting of the goals, if seized upon by governments. One was the rapid and widespread take-up of mobile phones and information technology; the other was the 21st-century innovator culture this technology was shaping.

Now that the next goals are being debated, it is time for Southern Innovator to scale-up and build on its achievements to date. Have a read of the Impact Summary and dream with us of a bigger Southern Innovator!

© David South Consulting 2017