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Statistical Record of Visits ...
Statistics on the use of this Web
site were intially provided free-of-charge by The Counter ...until that
company changed its policy, first in July, 2001, then again in July, 2003. In 2001,
they decided to charge a fee for some of the services that previously had been available
at no cost (e.g. the source of each "hit" - by domain name and country). In
2003, they decided to charge for ALL their services.
Sorry guys: NO DEAL! How
would you Database users feel if, suddenly, I began charging YOU admission?
Therefore, starting October 1, 2003 a
new "Hit Counter" from Bylane was installed; the price to pay is that
visitors who click on the provider's name under the counter [Bylane] get taken to a
commercial Web site. In 2005, Bylane too wanted to start charging for the
service, so I cancelled!
Bylane picked up where The
Counter left off [i.e. around 490,000 hits]. Unfortunately, their counter system did
not offer the same range of statistical data as The Counter. However, during the
first 5-6 years of counter operation, it was easy to determine the general pattern of
visits; although not set in stone, the pattern below is based on the data provided up
to July, 2001. I don't expect there will be any great variation in these percentages
in the future.
Listed in descending number of
"hits", below, are the domain extensions of the majority of visitors since
January, 2001.
".COM" e-mail addresses
accounted for 34% of hits; next came the ".NET" users (29%); the remainder, in
descending order of the number of hits, were from Canada (.CA), Sweden (.SE), Educational
institutions (.EDU), Australia (.AU), the Netherlands (.NL), the United States (.US), the
US Department of Defense (.MIL), Norway (.NO), France (.FR), Government institutions
(.GOV), Finland (.FI), other major organizations (.ORG), New Zealand (.NZ), Austria (.AT),
Germany (.DE), the United Kingdom (.UK), Switzerland (.CH), the Russian Federation (.RU),
Japan (.JP), Mexico (.MX), Spain (.ES), Belgium (.BE), Denmark (.DK), Brazil (.BR),
Italy (.IT), Poland (.PL), Argentina (.AR), Philippines (.PH), Czechoslovakia (.CZ),
Hungary (.HU), Saudi Arabia (.SA), Estonia (.EE), Thailand (.TH), Portugal (.PT),
South Africa (.ZA), Luxembourg (.LU), Iceland (.IS), Turkey (.TR), Chile (.CL),
Croatia (.HR), Greece (.GR), Israel (.IL), Romania (.RO), Ireland (.IE), India
(.IN), Slovakia (.SK), Slovenia (.SI), Taiwan (.TW), Singapore (.SG), Malaysia (.MY),
Niue in the S. Pacific (.NU), Lithuania (.LT), Ukraine (.UA), Peru (.PE), Uruguay (.UY),
Indonesia (.ID), Bulgaria (.BG), the former Macedonia (.MK), Lebanon (.LB), international
organizations (.INT), Tonga (.TO), French Polynesia (.PF), Colombia (.CO), Egypt (.EG),
Cayman Islands (.KY), Cyprus (.CY), Katzakhstan (.KZ), Trinidad & Tobago (.TT), Korea
(.KR), Nicaragua (.NI), Latvia (.LV), Aruba (.AW), Yugoslavia (.YU), Panama (.PA),
Kuwait (.KW), China (.CN) and Guatemala (.GT).
An additional 15% of users remained
unidentified.
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays were usually the
busiest days (15% each), followed by Thursdays and Fridays (14% each), then Saturday and
Sunday (12% each). I have no idea about the remaining 4%.
Anyway, these interesting statistics reveal that
most people seem to be accessing the Database weekdays on Mondays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays. Does that mean you are accessing from work? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!