Below is the latest chart of the hits on the site. This time I've plotted two curves with separate y scales; the daily "hit rate" on the site, and the cumulative hits since this site started on June 1, 1995. Sometime just before Chinese New Year, 1997, we passed one million cumulative hits.
During February, there were 64337 accesses from 7280 unique hosts and we sent out 427 megabytes of information. Except for occasional peaks, this rate is now pretty steady. Daily accesses range from 1,000 to 3,000. To set the scale, 500 megabytes is equivalent to sending out the State Dept. Information Packet 1250 times.
The most commonly asked question about this web site is: How many people read it? Here's what the numbers show (and what they don't show).
The accesses that we record are file requests, not unique individuals. Most web sites just tally the "hits" but don't explain that this isn't the number of people reading the site! A much better measure is the number of "hits" on the home page. By that measures, we had 7006 "readers" in February. The people acessing the site reached it from 7280 "unique hosts", i.e., from that number of different locations. That certainly understates the number of people reading the site, since services like AOL, Prodigy, etc, only appear on the access list as a list of the few computers that transfer the information from the Internet to the commercial system, thus tending to mask the number of users who've reached the site via the commercial services.
The files that people found the most interesting in February, 1997, and the number of accesses on each file, were:
We've now gotten accesses from the following countries:
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