The world's most popular search engine has now indexed over 245 Million Colnect pages! That is a phenomenal amount. That is almost 10x times more pages presented than in
Colnect's previous milestone. Colnect is ever rising and the results are definitely showing worldwide :)
What does it mean? It means that our catalogs are growing and so there's much more information that is made available to everyone around the world. It means Colnect is flourishing and that Google accepts its original content as something valid and useful.
To give you readers a better idea of how far the Colnect catalogs have come since then, here are a few more numbers. In comparison, Colnect's
Tea Bag catalog, then
only in its beginning, has added more than
50,000 items, making it 20 times larger than its original starting point. The
Stamps catalog, one of the most well-entrenched collectible fields on Colnect, has gone from
90,000 stamps to
almost 450,000, adding close to 400,000 Stamps at that time period. The Colnect
Phonecards catalog, then already celebrating a respectable size of
222,222 Phonecards has now almost tripled its size into
over half a million phonecards and the largest Phonecards catalog in the world. This is not to mention (just for the lack of space in the article, since they do deserve a mention) all the new categories that have been added since then.
Growing catalogs mean a growing community. Colnect's collectors, then a lucky group of
8.888 members, has ballooned tenfold and will soon complete the even luckier
80,000 collectors. Colnect has then been experiencing
111,111 visits a month which are now more than 666,666 visits made by almost 400,000 users a month. The site rating given by the most reliable source available on website ranking, Alexa, has gone up from
83,000 to 36,485, climbing almost 50,000 steps up the competitive online ladder, which is more logarithmic than linear.
All this data may seem cold, but what must be seen is that they are the mirror that reflects the work, dedication and heart of
contributors,
translators,
editors,
coordinators, too numerous to count. Each number contains years of searches, cooperation, attention to detail, challenges overcome and achievements made. It shows how much could be created when a group of people, no matter from which country, sex or age, gathers together over something they are truly passionate about.
Colnect's catalogs are meant to serve collectors wherever they may be and they do. On behalf of collectors everywhere we thank you, Colnect volunteers, for your efforts to create and perfect this invaluable source of information. This benefits all those who have or will chance upon collecting along their path.
