A total of eight new biographies were added to the website in 2020 and three more have been posted in January.
2020 was a year of substantial progress for the Dictionary of Falklands Biography website reports its administrators. The average number of hits recorded every day was 40, a yearly total exceeding 13,000.
This was an impressive increase over 2109, when only 3,300 visitors went to the site in the last six months. There was a good spread of visitors from 116 countries: most came from the UK – 6,505, or 48%, while other countries include the USA (2972 – 22%), Argentina (416 – 3%) and the Falkland Islands themselves, (264 – 2%).
The number of images on the site has risen over the year: there are now 1,634, whereas the original printed volume only had 365. Almost all the articles are now accompanied by images and several have five or six pictures attached. Collecting the additional photos and painting has been the work of the website’s researcher