By Nolan Madden One of the best measures of performance is the passage of time and a peek into the results of what develops afterward. Recent Internet activity data have revealed some positive news about the City of Holbrook: that the locale has trended often on the radar of area travelers within recent years. According to Holbrook Chamber of Commerce Director Billie Anne Perkins, as of Jan. 21, the chamber’s website has received more than 66,000 browser visits since May 2015, and garnered just shy of 700,000 hits over the past two years. The website is in the midst of a refresh under the guidance of its Canada-based hosting company, Need the Cloud, which gathered the stats and marked the site this month to announce new functionality on the way. “Once we’ve completed the changes, as we update our Facebook page, those updates will feed to the website automatically,” said Perkins. She related that the revamped site will also tie visitors into other area sites, such as those of the city’s newspaper and radio station, and nearby chambers of commerce. “It’s very likely that, if someone wants to learn more about our town’s local newspaper, for instance, they’re going to check with the chamber of commerce first 99.9 percent of the time, so we want to be able to provide them with that information as well,” said Perkins. Along with an active calendar of events, she noted that the site will advertise all manner of city activities, ranging from spaghetti dinner socials to the county fair, and spur new community enrichment initiatives, such as monthly recognition programs. “As we go throughout the community taking pictures and posting more of our local activities online, we hope to encourage people to start submitting to us suggestions for a Citizen of the Month and a Business of the Month,” Perkins explained. “There are enough restaurants here in town that could sponsor the winners, and we would then have a pool of nominations for Man and Woman of the Year.” Perkins is optimistic about the changes under way for the website and the city, and she thinks Holbrook businesses and residents should prepare for an influx of tourist activity, as current signs are already indicating. She was approached last week for the second time by a local restaurant manager who this past fall served a visiting tour group. The manager informed Perkins that the touring agency just booked three upcoming dates, including ones in February and May, at the venue, “because they were the only restaurant willing to accommodate 25 people at a time,” according to the agency. “As people continue to visit our website, they’ll say, ‘Look at what they’ve got going on in Holbrook. I may stay an extra couple of days because that looks like something neat.’ The motel rooms, the food; they’ll all line up and fall into place. Let’s make our community shine,” she said.