WWW.IGIHE.COM is now a millionaire!

The story of how this happened is quite amazing! In 2009, when www.igihe.com begun  these were the number of visitors that we received on igihe.com:

On this screenshot of June 2009 traffic, igihe.com was recorded to have 39 Unique visitors, 64 Visits, 883 viewed pages for a total of 3495 hits and a data transfer of  12.74 MB.  Which to put it in simple words means..almost nobody visited igihe.com! (Except for the team members themselves).

These traffic datas are in high contrast with a screenshot i took a few minutes ago from Google Analytics, displaying our latest numbers :

Google analytics is a free service from  US internet company GOOGLE, that helps website gather information about the amount of internet traffic they generate. The Datas provided by google covering the period from Jan 14th,2011 to Feb 10th,2011 goes as follow :

- Number of Visits : 1,037,566
- Page Views : 2,831,976
- Unique visitors : 210,292

Now you can say, wow! these are huge numbers! In just 1 and 1/2 year igihe.com has moved from being visited by itself to being visited by almost all internet users in Rwanda and a part of the diaspora. As it shows on this analysis from GOOGLE most of igihe.com's traffic comes from Rwanda :

By country igihe.com is mostly visited From:

1. Rwanda : 498,766 Visits
2. United States : 65,791 Visits
3. Belgium : 65,502 Visits
4. Canada : 46,483 Visits
5. France : 29,636 Visits
6. United Kingdom : 17,841 Visits
7. Netherlands : 17,726 Visits
8. Sudan : 13, 630 Visits
9. Norway : 12,148 Visits
10. Not set : 140,049 Visits.

There are some more countries where igihe.com is visited which are not counted in this chart. The traffic analysis goes further to show that every single visitor spends at least 7 minutes on the site! I know this is a pointless exercise but i like to multiply 7 minutes spent by every of the 1,037,566 visits , which gives a total of  7,262,962 Minutes spent on igihe.com JUST LAST MONTH!

Given its internationalization, accessibility, covered surface area and outreach;  igihe.com is by far the most visited media by Rwandan all over the world far beyond all the local radios and TV stations taken together.

Other Local Medias, have their audience and/or readership distributed only on Rwanda territory and a part of the neighboring countries!  Igihe.com on the other hand covers almost the entire planet, and links together all the people of Rwanda wherever they are in the world.

There is no local newspaper,local radio station or local TV station that has a readership or audience in the United States, or the United Kingdom, or Belgium, or France Like Igihe.com has! And all of this has been achieved in just a year and half of existence, think about what it will be in 10 years!

A big congratulations for reaching a million visitors a month, igihe.com and the team at IGIHE LTD!

We are planning to launch a lot of new products during the course of this year, that will further perfect the way people access information via their preferred media igihe.com thanks to the internet. By the end of this year, the impact IGIHE.COM will have on Rwandans all over the world is outstanding. Stay with us, and witness history in the making! Thanks for reading.