[witbd-discuss] witbd site continues to grow in popularity

Sat May 7 05:57:45 PDT 2005

Summary: the site continues to grow in popularity with well over a 5000 
hits and 500 unique visitors per month

Rmk: All data excludes
   1. traffic to forums
   2. all automated/robot traffic (so all hits are 'real')

Also note that witbd is no. 1 in google for:

"what is to be done" immigration
"what is to be done" women
"what is to be done" nato
"what is to be done" digital
"what is to be done" nanotechnology

etc

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Reported period Month Apr 2005
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Unique visitors: 535
Number of visits: 787 (1.47 visits/visitor)
Pages: 1127 (1.43 pages/visit)
Hits: 5944 (7.55 hits/visit)
Bandwidth: 43.41 MB (56.47 KB/visit)

   * The majority of traffic comes from the US.

Article Popularity: (number of views in April)

/articles/digital_communications.htm  121
/articles/nato.htm  105
/articles/immigration_into_europe.htm 100
/articles/russia_and_democracy.htm  89
/articles/womens_rights.htm 63
/articles/ 56
/articles/nanotechnology.htm  37
/articles/commercial_involvement_in_scientific_research.htm 22
/articles/scholarly_communication.htm 18

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2005 Data
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Month     [1] [2] [2]  [4]    [5]
Jan 2005  334 573 857   3305  22.52 MB
Feb 2005  455 721 1073  4421  30.86 MB
Mar 2005  489 774 1122  5236  38.11 MB
Apr 2005  535 787 1127  5944  43.41 MB

[1]Unique visitors
[2]Number of visits
[3]Pages
[4]Hits
[5]Bandwidth