Northfield.org web usage stats for 2004

According to the software that our web host service (Tiger Technologies) uses (AWStats), the traffic to our web site increased during 2004.

Translation: for the month of November, 2004 (our peak month), we had 9,631 different people visiting 21,558 times and viewing 111,138 pages.

Our web host uses this explanation for the above terms:

* Each page is a request for the server to send a single file other than a GIF or JPEG image. You can think of this as (roughly) the number of pages anyone viewed on your site. (Someone viewing a single "page" will probably show up as several "hits", because most pages include links to GIF or JPEG graphics.)

* Each visit is one or more file requests from an individual computer that hasn't requested any files in the previous hour. Think of this as (roughly) the number of times anyone visited your Web site. If the same person visited twice in one month (at least an hour apart), that would be counted as two separate visits.

* The number of visitors is the number of visits in a month that appear to come from different computers. Think of this as (roughly) the number of different people who visited your Web site in a month.

How accurate are these stats? I have no idea. If you're a technical person and would like to help us further anaylyze our usage, please Contact Us.