MIM website traffic statistics

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

July, 2002 monthly website report

by Web Minister, August 1, 2002

Our July readership dropped off precipitously as in past summers. We were not able to coordinate and launch campaigns on schedule to boost MIM webpage readership. Instead, we still find ourselves in the midst of major overhauls of how we do our work. Readership in arts and movies continued to be strong and individual readership of MIM Notes back issues was also strong, but foreign language readership fell off, thus proving that it is not only Amerikkkans slacking off in the summer. We're very unhappy with what we have done, and we only hope that we will get to our campaigns in time to show up in the August figures. These figures are probably 10% worse than they should be, because our web page was not serving files for a few days for technical reasons beyond our control.

Summary statistics comparing July 2001 and July 2002*

Statistic	July, 2001	July, 2002	% change
Avg. MIM pages served per day	1168	1551	+32.8%
Number of different computers MIM served	7798	13,727	+76.0%
Number of different MIM files actively chosen from	5736	3869	-32.5%
MIM data transferred average per day	119.082 megabytes	119.93 megabytes	+0.7%
Unique visitors sent to Amazon bookstore	32	146	+356%

*As in past reports of this format, these statistics exclude most graphics.

Standard disclaimers:
1. The numbers in these reports are conservative estimates for a number of reasons.
a. The number of computer users refers to number of computers. The number of users could be higher or lower, because some computers serve pages to more than one individual, because individuals share computers and because conversely individuals use computers in more than one place.

b. The number of pages served should be thought of as a minimum, because statistics do not count re-readings or re-servings from local computer memory. Nor do they count sharing of pages once downloaded.

c. Most but not all graphics served are excluded from the figures to cut back on increasing "page" averages just by calling up various graphics.

2. Tracking where computers are from is bound to have some error as many wise users intentionally surf the web and leave a false trail. On the other hand, we doubt that such error means that non-U.$. readership is lower than reported, given that we do not count .com, .net and .edu readership.