Provincial Web Site Update

A record number of visitors have used this site during the past year.  After the restyled version was launched in January 2008 it achieved

  • 11,484 unique visitors (ie each visitor counted only once)
  • return visits from more than half of these unique visitors
  • an average of 4 minutes stay per visit
  • an average of 4 pages viewed per visit

Unique visitor numbers steadily grew throughout the year, starting at a rate of just over 700 per month in January, 2008, and peaking at over 1,100 in November.  After the Home Page, the three most visited pages were those listing details of Lodges in the Province with their meeting dates, Provincial News and the Introduction to the Province.

The site has been used as a research tool by non-Masons and has been directly responsible for the recruitment of 32 new members to Lodges in the Province (and 15 applications are pending).


The increasing use of the site is at the heart of the greater use of technology in Freemasonry in this Province in which

  • all but five of the 90 Lodges in the Province now use the Internet
  • this Provincial web site features a page for Secretaries' exclusive use from which can be downloaded all the Provincial and Grand Lodge forms, templates and other information needed by Secretaries
  • issues of Password (from 2005 onwards) can be downloaded
  • lodges are increasingly using email to circulate summonses and copies of meeting minutes
  • Grand Lodge and the Provincial Office now accept the submission of various forms by email
  • the Provincial Office and Provincial Executive (through the Provincial Office) now accept Lodge summonses by email
  • in November 2008 an online Provincial information, learning and discussion forum was launched