Our Target Weight Calculator Is All the Rage and We Don’t Know Why.
When we launched our new website in January 2021, we had a gut feeling about which pages would be popular. Who doesn’t love a fiery photo of a guy in a refining heat suit, a beautiful nugget of gold, silver, platinum and palladium or heavy bars of precious metal fresh from the blast furnace? But if you told us back then that one of our most popular web pages would be a sputtering target weight calculator, that would not compute.
The Target Weight Calculator was part of the original DHF Technical Products website. You enter the shape, dimensions and precious metal and in a few clicks it spits out the weight of gold, silver, platinum or palladium needed to fabricate your target. It immediately became popular with our internal folks as a shortcut to check their math.
Great inventions are created by happy accident. Could our Target Weight Calculator be one of them?
When we decided to keep it on the new site, we expected regular visits from our manufacturing team in Rio Rancho and maybe a few clients. What we didn’t expect was regular visits from all over the world. People from China, India, Germany, Korea, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Canada to name just a few. These weren’t random visits. Target Weight Calculator users were on a mission. They’d come directly to the calculator, spend an average of two minutes and go on their way. Then come back again and again, day after day.
Don’t get us wrong, this is an amazing target weight calculator. It could very well be the only one of its kind. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should check it out. When you do, please let us know what you think. And give us your opinion about why people all over the world might be using it. Because we’d like to know.
Some of the greatest inventions of our time were created by happy accident. From Post-it Notes to Play-Doh to chocolate chip cookies. Could the DHF Target Weight Calculator be like those? Have we caught precious metal lightning in a bottle? Or just precious metal targets in a simple calculator? If you could let us know, we’d appreciate it.