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.

First 10 days September 2002 monthly website report

by Web Minister, September 11, 2002

I'm running this report on the first 10 days of September, because I'm not sure what to think about traffic for September 11th onwards. One year ago, MIM's website gained in international exposure from the September 11th events--as did most political websites, because the public turned toward "serious matters" and away from the usual NakedNews programming. It's questionable if MIM can expect to beat the traffic from September 11th to September 30th last year, so here we present a snapshot of what MIM has done prior to September 11th.

Summary statistics comparing first 10 days of September 2001 and September 2002*

Statistic	September, 2001	September, 2002	% change
Avg. MIM pages served per day	1025	1749	+70.6%
Number of different computers MIM served	3,354	6,167	+83.9%
Number of different MIM files actively chosen from	1974	2948	+49.3%
MIM data transferred average per day	42.7 megabytes	89.1 megabytes	+108.7%

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

Mostly we are unhappy with these figures, because we want to break 100% annual growth in number of computers served. I hope our comrades abroad can now answer their questions about what MIM is doing since September 11th. We have seen that in some months since September 11th, MIM has surpassed the 100% growth mark in number of readers of our website. I take the blame for not reaching 100% in the first 10 days of September 2002.

On the bright side, secondary indicators are higher than expected. With the theory that the "hard-core" political readers already know about MIM's website, and have for some years, we are surprised to see that even one year after September 11th, we still see more than 100% growth in a time period's megabytes transferred from MIM to readers. Also, quite frankly, I would assume that we would not see 70% growth in non-graphics pages served as we do in this report. It seems much more intuitive that as MIM's exposure to the public expands, the number of new readers would expand faster than the pages and megabytes served, as we reached more and more into the relatively apolitical public.

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.