ERRI Press Release
08/15/97 - 08:30CDT
ERRI Website Surpasses 1,000,000
Hits; On-Line Training Available
By: Gearld Lemzecki, ENN Editorial Intern
Chicago, IL (EmergencyNet News) Tom Lorinczi, Technical
Services Manager of the Emergency Response & Research
Institute (ERRI), today announced that the ERRI website has
surpassed two and a half million "hits" since it opened
for business in November of 1995. "According to
Webtrends(tm)," our log tracking and analysis program, our
access rates continue to accelerate...with a 18.6% increase in
average daily usage since the beginning of 1997," Lorinczi
said.
Clark Staten, ERRI
Executive Director, said that an accurate picture of the actual
usage of the site should include the fact that more than
1,000,000 of those "hits" or accesses were on actual
content pages and did not include forms, graphics or other
technical items which are used by some webmasters to inflate
access statistics. Staten said that there are more than 956
Fire/Police/EMS/Disaster/Terrorism/Military and Intelligence
articles available on-line for review and study by visitors.
Staten said that the ERRI website is quickly being recognized as
one of the nation's most popular emergency service/military
websites.
"Unique to this site is the fact that virtually all of the
materials presented on-line are researched, written, edited, and
posted in HTML language by experienced emergency and military
personnel, most with in excess of 15 years of service in some of
the nation's leading government and military agencies,"
according to Steve Macko,
EmergencyNet News Managing Editor. Macko said that several ERRI
editorial contributors and analysts are retired senior officers
or agents, who now devote a great deal of time and energy to
providing information and direction for the various EmergencyNet
publications.
Associate Editor, Paul Anderson, said traffic on the website may
be expected to further increase as a sample of a new ERRI
emergency/ military remote learning/training initiative has come
on-line. The first ERRI "Lesson-on-Line," entitled,
"Emergency Response to Chemical/Biological Terrorist
Attack" is now available on line at http://www.emergency.com/cbwlesn1.htm.
A number of nationally recognized guest instructors and
innovative subject materials are expected to be included in
subsequent classes, that will be made available on-line in the
coming months.
Lorinczi also said that ERRI has recently installed additional
trunk lines, two 200Mhz high speed servers, and an internet T-1
line in order to increase throughput capacity and speed and
improve service to its rapidly growing number of news
subscribers, dial-in customers, and people accessing the ERRI
website. He said that this latest round of modernization efforts
should keep pace with customer demand and even provide a
"cushion of residual capacity," that will allow for
continued company growth. "Our bottom line is to provide our
customers with the cutting edge in technology, news, and
reference information... these latest changes should well enable
us to do that for the foreseeable future." Lorinczi
concluded.
Additional information about ERRI can be obtained by contacting:
Emergency Response & Research Institute
6348 N. Milwaukee Ave., #312
Chicago, IL. 60646
(773) 631-3774 - Voice
(773) 631-4703 - Fax
(773) 631-3467 - Modem/Emergency BBS On-Line
http://www.emergency.com - Website
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