It would be interesting to find out is there was a way to fine tune the statistics to find out how the site is really being used, ie breakdowns by members and by guests, # hits by members to DT and # hits by guests, another breakdown for the forum.

Is there a way to at least breakdown # hits to DT? It would be interesting to find out how many of the hits were by members using the resource in conjunction with the forum, and how many guests using the resource (I'm guessing without ever accessing the forum, as there don't seem to be that many "occassional" guests coming into the forum with questions about info in or not in DT).

I agree with those who say the # of monthly hits doesn't tell us much about how the site it used--as Max said, the site is always at the top of the "hit" list in the most widely used search engines. However, I'd guess an awful lot of those hits were one-time, as is true for most sites which show up at the top of the hit list for searches in Yahoo, Google, etc. That has more to do with search engine results than it does Mudcat being an intended destination by searchers.