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A pat on my own back and a big thanks to you

March 23rd, 2013

In 2012, the Essential Vermeer website received the grand total of 484,998 unique visits and 1,692,344 individual page views (from my E.V. Google stats). If your wondering what the cliff fall-off at the end of the year is about in the graph below, that’s the Christmas and New Year holidays kicking in.

Obviously, we are talking about small-time numbers in absolute: a hot video game watering hole or sports site gets that many in a day. BUT, it huge number for an art-related website, especially for a monographic one.

Thanks for your visit, please know it’s more than a number for me!

Posted in: Essential Vermeer Website News on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 at 3:05 pm

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In June, 2001, I launched the Essential Vermeer as a one-page list of available Vermeer-related websites and literature.*

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