Ron Graham’s Report
— for Apr-May-Jun (2nd Quarter) 2020
This page reports my work on simplybible.com for the information of those who take a special interest in that work.
New Videos for Youtube
Over the quarter, 13 half-hour videos were taken from the archive and converted into YouTube videos. Each video can take several hours to produce, but I consider it worthwhile.
The simplybible YouTube channel now has 567 subscribers. The videos made and published this quarter were...
(YouTube) HT1. Jesus Made me Honest with Myself
(YouTube) TC6. The Church that Jesus Bought
(YouTube) TC5. How to Find Christ’s Church
(YouTube) TC4. Simply Christians
(YouTube) TC3. What Went Wrong?
(YouTube) TC2. Will Any Religion Do?
(YouTube) TC1. I Will Build My Church
(YouTube) OT6. Timeless Principles
(YouTube) OT5. Great Examples
(YouTube) OT4. Messianic Prophecies
(YouTube) OT3. Historical Facts
(YouTube) OT2. Is Old Testament Needed?
(YouTube) OT1. The Gospel in the Old Testament
You can inspect the video library here:
➤ youtube.com/simplybible/video
New Pages on simplybible.com
18 new lesson pages were added to the site. This brings the number of study pages on the site to 1465. The new pages are...
Bislama Lessons
Tingting blong ol Traboltaem - (2)
Tingting blong Traboltaem (1)
Trifala Kaen Man Nogud
Nambawan Kwestin We Yumi Mas Askem
Trifala Taem i stap
Hao Nao Bambae Yumi Usum Laef blong Yumi
Fastaem Noa i Wokem Wan Olta
Jisas hem nao i Rod, mo Trutok, mo Laef
Wan Get we i Smol Nomo Matiu 7:13
Jisas i bin Mekem Wan Sakrefaes
Other
Our Response to Tribulation - (2)
What the Bible Truly Can Do
Jesus, Way Truth Life
Beautiful Life Unending
Jesus Took Our Place
Ezekiel Chapters 18-19-20
Ezekiel Chapters 16-17
Hard to Hear (7)
Website Usage
The figures for page views over the quarter (total of pages opened by visitors) were as follows:
| Month | Pageviews | Visits | |
| Apr | 342,500 | 224,500 | 118,000 |
| May | 267,375 | 177,387 | 113,000 |
| Jun | 208,082 | 143,142 | 97,400 |
| Quarter | 817,957 | 545,029 | 328,400 |
(Source Awstats and Google).
That is an average for page views of around 206,000 a month or 6,800 daily.
For the twelve months to the end of June, the number of page views was 3.2 million. (Source Awstats).
Requests for PDF documents
In addition to pages viewed (as shown above) there were 4156 downloads of lessons in the PDF format:
| 2020 | DOWNLOADS |
| Apr | 1392 |
| May | 1608 |
| Jun | 1156 |
| Qtr TOTAL | 4156 |
(Source: Awstats)
Pageviews per Nation
As an indication of the site's outreach, here's a list of the countries in which more than 1000 pages were viewed in the month of May 2020.
PAGEVIEWS FOR NATIONS
IN MONTH OF MAY 2020
United States.125,094
Nigeria........15,855
Great Britain..13,843
Canada.........11,604
India..........10,424
South Africa....9,857
Philippines.....9,627
Australia.......8,775
Indonesia.......6,311
Kenya...........4,988
Angola..........4,936
Singapore.......3,664
Unknown.........2,690
Malaysia........2,062
Ghana...........1,935
Germany.........1,680
Jamaica.........1,630
New Zealand.....1,576
United Arab Em..1,574
China...........1,547
Russian Fed.....1,124
Zambia..........1,069
Saudi Arabia....1,016
Ukraine.........1,014
(Source: Awstats)
Encouraging Feedback
Here are two excerpts from users of the website and YouTube videos. For privacy reasons no names or places are identified.
(1) "One day it happened I got into your site and studied on the book of Roman's material. I am very much blessed. Thanks for making it available."
(2) "I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to bible and Jesus Christ. It became my new life and will never give up on searching for God anymore and it's mostly thanks to you."
Social Media
We continue to work on social media, especially on our facebook pages. The longest running page (facebook.com/simplybible) now has 4653 followers.
Thank You
Thank you once more for your ongoing assistance with the Lord’s work. I greatly appreciate your prayers and your interest and belief in my work on the website. The service we provide on the internet is all the more needed while the world is in turmoil. Together we "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation".
Love and best wishes in Jesus.