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June 10, 2002

Silver Chips Online most popular school newspaper in the nation

by Annie Peirce, Page Editor
According to Yahoo.com, Silver Chips Online is presently listed as the most popular individual school newspaper website in the nation. Since September 1999 it has been visited (as of 12:00 June 10) 1,005,748 times. Editors-in-Chief Jeanne Yang and Kevin Chang expect this number to increase dramtically during the next year, since the average number of page visits per day as of June 10 was 406.

According to Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker, sixty-five percent of the page visits have come from the Eastern time zone. Of the remaining thirty-five percent, 11% originate from the central time zone, 9% from the western time zone, 15% from Europe and 2% from Asia.

The HiLite from Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, named the best online US high school publication by the National Scholastic Press Association and NetGuide for 1997, is the third most read paper, below the Millard South High School Daily Citizen from Omaha, NE.



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  • Jeremy (View Email) on June 10, 2002
    actually we haven't been visited 1,000,000 times, that's the number of page views... ask kevin to explain the difference.
  • mathwin on June 10, 2002
    Of the remaining 35 %, 11% originate from...

    Also change bowtie to read According to Yahoo
  • Kevin L. (View Email) on June 10, 2002
    No offense to Chips, but the HiLite looks like it has more features and cool stuff, BUT it may just be becuase its layout is more advanced. BUT (again) they do have a good staff all around, SCO's staff in feilds like sports is shady, though some sports writers are awesome (like Ben Meiselman)
  • Blair Student on June 10, 2002
    WE RULE. GO BLAIR
  • Kevin Chang on June 10, 2002
    A hit is a unique visitor to a site; if you come and read five stories, it's one hit. A page view is one single page load; if you come to the main page and read five stories, it's six page views.

    Kevin L., what do you think we should look like? I personally don't like the HiLite, for a number of reasons. First, their site doesn't fit on one screen by width. Having to scroll left-right is really annoying. Second, it's really cluttered, with too much info and color packed into one screen. Third, I don't like the way they organize, but that's just me. All in all, it's just not good web design. Of course, that's all opinion.
  • Anonymous on June 10, 2002
    15% from Europe??? How is it that high?
  • Kevin Fang (View Email) on June 10, 2002
    If we're on the subject of other schools' websites, I do like some parts of their layout (like the left sidebar, I like the style and how the graphics change colors with rollovers), but many links fail to work, and yes, that whole left-right scroll thing gets annoying. I also don't think that the online staff write its own stories (the paper comes out twice a month). Overall I still think it's a wonderful site, but I'm biased (especially because I'm on online staff next year), so I like ours better. Of course, we still have much room for improvement as well.

    P.S. It's like a Kevin triad...hahaha
  • blair grad '02 on June 11, 2002
    Way to go Chips! Your online and print staff is full of very talented writers, reporters and artists. You don't need statistics to prove that...even though it IS nice to see those stats. Keep up the good work!
  • Zack Tinkelman on June 11, 2002
    And modest, too.
  • Anonymous on June 11, 2002
    The most popular newspaper in the nation...

    ...and you can't even get your HTML right!

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsilverchips.mbhs.edu&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline
  • go blazers on June 12, 2002
    Just keep it cool with good articles with interest
  • Maddie (View Email) on June 12, 2002
    You kno why? It's cuz we have such a smart staff who actually know what they're doing and care. Good job!
  • Dan Han (View Email) on June 12, 2002
    Go silver chips online
  • DiZ aka David (View Email) on June 13, 2002
    Much PROPS and RESPEKT to Silver Chips.. always backed up this paper.. big ups.. keep it up.. HOLLA BACK CLASS of '02... Silver Chips dont sleep on it.. peace
  • Christina McJimpsey (View Email) on July 3, 2002
    I love the fact that you can search for ppls. birthdays, I have never found another website so accurate! How caan I add my name?
  • Nichole (View Email) on September 14, 2004
    I LOVE this paper. It is very interesting and it gives me an outlook on writing more. It has inspired me so much. Love You Guyz!
  • anthony (View Email) on September 14, 2004
    this site sucks
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