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Website Report – 2023 Annual Report

 

On the Homepage and Website…

Material: We uploaded a lot of new material to the website during the year as noted in the Mission and Accomplishments report, and the visitor responses have been very positive!

We regularly post notices and announcements to keep our visitors apprised of our activities (with links to the material to make sourcing them easier). Here are just a few that were posted in 2023:

  • Graduate Student Research Award winner announcement
  • Update by a researcher seeking participants for a study of psychopathy
  • Revisions to the cookie popup for the website, as required by government regulations
  • Announcing the posting of our Aftermath 2021 Annual Report
  • Calls for Nominations for our Aftermath Foundation Media Award and Graduate Student Research Award
  • A link to a financial abuse website resource was added to the Aftermath links page
  • We're currently working on a new "visitor survey" that will be available on the website soon!
  • General announcements about our Newsletters, Web Conversations, Ask the Experts, additions to our FAQs page, media coverage of our work, fundraising and Giving Tuesday solicitation and additions of new research articles.

Expanding audience: We have had success in attracting visits to our website from foreign-language speakers in a variety of countries around the world. To help reach people on our website, volunteers translated materials into other languages, including summaries of research articles, frequently asked questions about people with psychopathic traits, and answers to questions by psychopathy experts (“Ask the Expert”), among other things.

In 2023 the number of visitors that came to the Aftermath website increased by 6,872 over the previous year for a total of 36,830 visitors this year, with many of them coming to the website for the first time. Visitors viewed 63,444 pages. The webpages with the most visits were:

The ten languages used most often by visitors on the website were:

  1. English (16,776 visitors)
  2. German (8,650)
  3. Spanish (3,661)
  4. Polish (2,195)
  5. Greek (1,751)
  6. Hebrew (960)
  7. Chinese (550)
  8. Dutch (379)
  9. Turkish (354)
  10. French (333)

We continuously seek volunteers to translate our website material into different languages so that we can reach a larger, more culturally diverse audience. If you would like to help us reach more people by translating material from our website into other languages, please let us know! You can contact us at: support@aftermathfoundation.org

The ten countries from which visitors came to the website most often were:

  1. Germany (8,876 visitors)
  2. United States (8,852)
  3. Poland (2,168)
  4. Spain (1,919)
  5. Greece (1,819)
  6. United Kingdom (1,818)
  7. Canada (1,499)
  8. Israel (1,143)
  9. Austria (706)
  10. Australia (674)

Some other countries visitors came from were, Singapore, Cyprus, New Zealand, India, Brazil, Croatia, Finland, and Peru.

2023 Website Visitor Countries

 

Website Maintenance: Our site is very secure, well-maintained and backed-up to multiple locations. All of our core software platforms (WordPress and phpbb) are updated regularly.

Update: We have begun evaluating the designs of other websites that can handle all of the features of our current website and that appear capable of communicating our values in an effective style. We are seeking volunteers with website design experience to join our team to help with this project.

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