Monthly Archives: February 2018

mechanical seal

Learning to Draw

I haven’t abandoned SealFAQs or even neglected it.  I’ve been busy learning to draw using Adobe Illustrator.  Here’s an example of a mating ring that I recently drew.

Mating Ring with Good Wear Track
Mating Ring with Good Wear Track

Hope this looks like a mating ring to you!  It’s a shame that I can’t draw.  I’ve had engineering drafting and can make simple 2D drawings but not 3D.

I thought that, by using Adobe Illustrator, I could make simple 2D shapes and extrude them to 3D,  Perhaps that can be done but I can’t seem to get it to work.  Instead, I’m drawing the 2D shape/face and projecting it back for 3D.   Next I have to learn to use gradients and shading.

All this to create illustrations of seal face wear patterns and damage.

mechanical seal, Wikipedia

SealFAQs Statistics

SealFAQs has been officially launched for one month.  Here are the statistics for the month of January 2018 according to Awstats (Advanced Web Statistics).

SealFAQs had 1015 unique visitors and a total of 1407 visits (1.38 visits/visitor).  This means that some visitors returned for an additional look!  Visitors averaged looking at 2.7 pages per visit.  There were even more visits by the various bots and such that traverse the Internet — most of these bots were from search engines.

Visits per day averages 44 and the number of daily visits is slowly increasing.  Most people visit during the week and the middle part of the day – which I take as meaning that people are visiting SealFAQs from their work site.  This is a good sign to me.

By far, the most visitors are from the United States and distantly followed by India, Russia, China, Canada, Great Britain and others.

Visits average about 135 seconds in duration but most visits are for less than 30 seconds.  This is probably not a good sign.  Perhaps people are misled about the content of SealFAQs or have difficulty finding their way around?

As expected, access is predominately via the Windows operating system (83%) but 47% of the browsers are Google Chrome whereas Internet Explorer is used by 27% and Firefox by 11%.

Google’s search engine predominates the source of the links to SealFAQs.

There are a few links from the Wikipedia article on end face mechanical seals but those will probably disappear because the Wikipedia editors did not like linking to SealFAQs and have removed that link.

All in all, I’m well pleased with the first month of traffic to SealFAQs.  To be sure, SealFAQs is not a major web attraction but at least it is drawing some attention.