Hi all. At last check, we were at 3 million "hits" per month. Hits is a meaningless term really, so I hesitate to use it. User sessions is a far better stat and term, and that is what the 100,000 is all about. We have some great placements in certain search engines like Yahoo, and AskJeeves, so I am sure we get a lot of passerbys. Since we've been around so long we also have a lot of links from other sites.

As far as members go, we have 4836 in the database, while only 1381 come with any frequency. The mudcat log files reach 50MB in 2 or 3 days, so it is hard to accumulate a months worth to do any real analysis. Last time I checked, the average mudcatter checks the site 7 times a day, and stays about 15 minutes per visit (averages mind you).

Either we are growing or get more activity in the winter months (northern hemisphere winter) or both, because I have seen a steady increase lately. Here are how many postings we get a month:

May: 8,278
June: 8,018
July: 9,840
Aug: 8,995
Sept: 9,310
Oct: 10,635
Nov: 12,764
Dec: 7,406 (so far)

This is about 4 times more volume than last year at this time. Dec98 - 3864, Nov98 - 3467, Oct98 - 3497.

How's that for stats?