Website up 14% to 557 real visitors, the third week of growth; email clicks fell on two fewer sends.
Sermon reachNov 1's sermon across YouTube, the homepage and the podcast so far; Oct 25's has 320 after a full week. Still climbing, so no arrow. 298views so far
Each bar is one Sunday’s total across every channel — the number above the bar — with the segments showing which channel contributed. YouTube = views; homepage hero = plays of the condensed cut; podcast = deduped downloads. These are lifetime totals, so older sermons have had longer to accumulate. Read the mix and the recent trend, not a strict week-to-week ranking — the newest bar is hatched because it has had days rather than weeks.
† Nov 1 = hatched: still accruing, fewer days than the bars beside it.
WebsiteUsers up 13% (1,855 → 2,097). 2,097users▲ 13%
▶︎ Homepage Sermon Player
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"God Remembered Noah - Genesis 8" is in the homepage hero now; the numbers below are last week's. First-party counters, not GA4 — aggregate only, nothing traceable to a person.
BlogsBlog readers steady at 479; found us on Google up 25% (69 → 86). 479blog readers→ flat
AppApp opens down 45% (84 → 46); opened 2+ days up 25% (4 → 5). 46app opens▼ 45%
DevotionalsWebsite readers down 19% (36 → 29); app devotional opens down 51% (49 → 24). 29website readers▼ 19%
KidsKids opens down 54% (28 → 13); website Kids readers up 162% (8 → 21). 13kids opens▼ 54%
YouthYouth section opens down 33% (9 → 6); website Youth readers up 120% (10 → 22). 6youth section opens▼ 33%
YouTubeWeekly Views down 16% (756 → 633); watch Hours down 40% (73 → 44). 633weekly views▼ 16%
- Views by format: Videos 130 · Live 274 · Shorts 229
- Top: You Were Never the One Holding On | Safe in the Ark | Genesis 7 — 1,478 min, 134 views, 18% watched
- Top: Colleen Zanardi Services 10/24/2026 — 314 min, 72 views, 8% watched
- Top: Complete Sunday Service — October 25, 2026 | Christchurch Miami — 241 min, 46 views, 14% watched
- Views came from: Shorts feed 30% · Subscriptions feed 21% · YouTube search 15% · Other sites 15%
PodcastDownloads down 70% (43 → 13); listeners down 64% (36 → 13). 13downloads▼ 70%
InstagramPosts up 44% (9 → 13); comments down 66% (82 → 28). 13posts▲ 44%
EmailRecipients down 42% (3,384 → 1,957); clicks down 85% (237 → 35). 1,957recipients▼ 42%
⏳ Waiting on access: Instagram reach, Facebook. These fill in on their own once access is granted.
What Changed · Why · We Recommend
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Website: real visitors up 14% (489 → 557), the third straight week of growth. Corrected Nov 5: this report first said 2,097, which counted automated crawlers.
Why it matters Since mid-October about 1,500 "visitors" a week have been automated crawlers from Singapore and China: desktop Chrome, almost no engagement, no audience for us there. Taken out, the site still grew three weeks running (416 → 458 → 489 → 557), mostly from Google search (122 → 179 people a week) and the One Year ads (75 → 94). Blog readers were inflated the same way: 134 people, not 479.
We recommend Lean into what newcomers look for. After the homepage, the most visited pages are I'm New (118 people) and About, and timely topical posts (the Reformation list) lift search. Keep one timely post a month, and keep I'm New current. Website and blog numbers in these reports now leave the crawlers out and say how many.
Need from you Nothing — we have what we need.
Email: clicks per email fell from about 47 to 12 (237 → 35 total), and the people clicking fell 44 → 19.
Why it matters Total clicks swing on a handful of people. The week before, one Church Family News email (5 links) drew 132 clicks from 18 people, and there was no news email this week. The weekly sermon emails carry 19–20 links and draw 12–13 clickers from about 460 opens every week. Opens hold near 45%, so people read; a long list of links gives them no one thing to do. So it is the calls to action, not the content.
We recommend Count people who click, not total clicks. Cut the weekly email to 3–4 links with one main ask: getting people into the building first, the app second. Move the recurring church-life reminders (kids and students "get connected", reading plan, the prayer link) into the app.
Need from you Whoever builds the Friday email: try a 3–4-link version this week, so next week's report can compare.
Instagram reach and Facebook are still blank.
Why it matters Both wait on Meta access, not on content. Reporting reach needs a Business admin on Christchurch Miami's Meta account to connect the Page and the Instagram insights. Until then we can count posts and likes, but not reach, views or link taps, so we can't yet say which content drives reach.
We recommend Add Jeff as an admin of the Christchurch Miami business in Meta Business Settings. Jeff then connects the Page and the insights, and the first report after that shows reach post by post, so the team can repeat what works.
Need from you Pastor James: he is the only admin today. In business.facebook.com → Settings → People, invite Jeff with full control. It takes about two minutes, and Jeff does the rest.
What Worked / What to Watch
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Reformation Sunday drove the blog. "Top Ten Ways the Reformation Changed the World" earned 22 reads — the most-read post of the week and a sign that timely topical content lifts the whole site. 134 people read the blog this week.
Website up again. 557 real visitors against 489 last week — the third week in a row the site has grown (416 → 458 → 489 → 557).
The series held attention. James Drake's "Safe in the Ark" (Genesis 7, Oct 25) was the top YouTube video of the week at 134 views and 18% average view percentage — the series is carrying its audience.
Kids website readers jumped. 21 website readers vs 8 last week — the biggest single-week jump in Kids site traffic. Memory verses led the app at 3 opens.
Kids has been late two weeks running. Balaam (Oct 22–28) is live. Rahab (Nov 1) is live. But the Nov 8 week has no script or art — script was due Oct 25. Nov 15's script is due today. The check keeps saying LATE; it hasn't resolved.
Email clicks fell 85% (237 → 35). That was a send change, not a list change: the list held at 2,866, but three emails went out instead of five, so recipients fell 42% (3,384 → 1,957). Opens held at 45%. Clicks per email also dropped (about 47 → 12). Last week's 237 was itself high (104 the week before), so the fair test is whether next week's sends carry a clear link.
App opens down 45% (84 → 46). Devotional opens in the app halved too (49 → 24). App accounts held (34 → 35), so this is fewer visits, not fewer people — worth a nudge in this week's announcements.
Rolling Out
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- 📖 Published — God Remembered Noah (Kent Keller · Genesis 8), Week 8 of the eleven-week Foundations series, EN + ES
- 📝 Felt-need blog: Jeff's When You Feel Like God Has Forgotten You — live Sunday Nov 1 (new schedule: Jeff's goes Sunday)
- 📝 Sermon blog: Kent's But God Remembered Noah: The Grace at the End of the Flood publishes Thursday Nov 6
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- 🎬 4 Shorts → IG Stories Mon–Thu Nov 2–5, 4:30 PM ET: 'Get on Board or Be Left Behind', 'You Are Remembered by God', 'It Was Grace That Saved You', 'You Already Believe the Hard Part'; YouTube uploads Monday 3:30am
- 📱 Mon–Fri 9 AM — devotionals Day 1–5, EN and ES
- 🎧 Episode live in all four podcast feeds (EN audio 60, EN video 60, ES audio 53, ES video 53)
- 🏠 Homepage hero plays this week's condensed cut (Genesis 8)
- 🎬 Chaplain America — no episode yet for the week of Nov 8
Open Items
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- Kids, Thursday Nov 5 — the week of Nov 8 has no script and no art. Script was due Sunday Oct 25. The week currently serving families is Rahab (Nov 1). Nov 15's script is also due today.
- Chaplain America — no episode exists yet for the week of Nov 8.
- YouTube Shorts — four IG Stories are approved. The YouTube upload runs Monday at 3:30am on its own.
- Spanish video — the "Altered or synthetic content" box in YouTube Studio is still a hand click each week.
Where the numbers live
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For more than one week at a time:
- Search performance, queries, rankings, the Google listing → Search (updates daily)
- The whole month, every department, with trends → Monthly report
- AI assistants — who is asking, who is crawling, who cites us → AI visibility
This page is the week in one glance: what shipped, what worked, and the note from Jeff.