The traffic on my site has amazed me. Over the past 12 months it has averaged 1.3 million hits a month. Thats from an average of about 2,000 vistors per day.

Last month the site transmitted 20,271,164,599 bytes of data. That is a honking big number even if a byte is a small thing.

Less than 4% of this traffic constitutes web spiders indexing the site.

Obviously most of this traffic comes from the bulletin boards and the this BBS specifically. My thanks to all the people who post for making it so popular.

: My kayak web site is exposed in this forum, and Nick's web ring. Other than
: that, it is unknown (to my knowledge) anywhere else. Some interesting
: statistics for August are as follows: Total Hits (all activity): 44,075

: Files Sent (primarily pictures, of course): 38,265

: Pageviews (number of pages viewed): 2,736

: Sessions (number of times someone came aboard): 2,052

: Since my "paddle building page" came on line in February, I've had
: 323,025 hits on my site. Since February, I've had no less that 30,000 hits
: in a month, and most months are over 40,000. In the first 11 days in
: September (last reporting period on my UNIX server) I've had 13,167 hits.

: Now I ask you: My commercial web site has never had anywhere NEAR this number
: of hits. The kayak web site has to have some commercial value. What should
: I advertise to you, my gentle readers? T-shirts? Miniature kayaks in
: ceramic? Adult kayak novelties? Varnishing rags? Geez, that many hits
: should provide SOME sort of revenue stream, don't you agree . . . ? ;-)

: I am simply beside myself, Spidey