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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

We Feel Like A Million

We have just run the stats on our web server and are pleased to announce that we achieved over one million hits last month. In March, we had 1,003,103 total hits. These million hits are the total numbers of pages hit at our website after we subtract out all of the hits generated in our lab and by our personal office machines.

This was not our first million hit month, we also had one in March of 2006. Since then we have been hovering around 900,000 hits per month.

As of the 1st of April, the total cumulative hits since mid-1999 is just over 37 million. If you look at the results by stat package, the most popular pages are on SAS followed by Stata and then SPSS with the remaining specialty packages trailing behind.

In the last three months the SAS pages had 939,953 hits, Stata 793,129 hits and SPSS with 518,087 hits. For the specialty packages Mplus lead the pack with 66,685 hits in the last three months. The next closest was HLM with 18,473.

One of the more surprising findings was that our limited Splus and R pages managed 39,963 hits since January 1st.

All-in-all not bad results for a website that consists entirely of geeky stat stuff.

pbe

2 comments:

Hadley Wickham said...

Did you remember to take out the hits related to web search spiders? It can make a big difference.

stattalk said...

Yes, we do filter out search engines.

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