Re: [Marxism] re:Spike in archive visits

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

M. Junaid Alam wrote:
> Louis, are you sure that you are looking at total _visitors_ and not
> _hits_ when viewing site statistics numbers? The whole rating and
> statistics system has me puzzled - for instance, CounterPunch claims to
> get upwards of 20 million visits a month, but their Alexa.com rating is
> only marginally higher than that of Znet, which claims to get about .5
> million visits a month. Meanwhile, Marxmail is rated 1,531,869 on
> Alexa.com, whereas Left Hook is rated 738,862
> <http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=lefthook.org>
> - but if you're statistics are correct, you've gotten more visits in a
> week than we have in a year! Something just isn't adding up right.

Actually, I should have said hits. If one person visited the archives
50,000 times last week, it would still show up as 50,000 hits but one
visitor--to make things clear. Here's the stats that I pick up directly
from the Columbia utility for what it's worth. It does not provide
discrete visitor information.

Web Server Statistics: 10/31/2004 to 11/06/2004

http://www.columbia.edu/
Directory Tree Report for /~lnp3 - sorted by the number of requests

Showing all document types requested from this server (HTML, GIF, JPG,
etc.), including the top 2 directory levels. Including personal home
pages only.

   Total        CU        Offsite       Total
   Bytes       Hits         Hits         Hits     Dir/file Requested
 --------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ---------------------
 421.97 M        1,376       47,558       48,934      ~lnp3/



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