Of interests to computer geeks and nerds...

[Ed Davidson]

Here's an interesting chart, showing the number of hits the AAW main site and forum have received over the past 12 months - greater than 50,000,000!

 

[Ron Sardo]

While that may be impressive, showing page counts would be more accurate.

This page alone produces 42 hits and will increase as more people post to this thread.

 

[Bill Boehme]

Doesn't every graphic (buttons, logos, emoticons, avatars, photo images,symbols, etc.) on a web page produce an additional "hit"?

 

[Ed Davidson]

Yes, but unfortunately - GoDaddy, who host the forum, and ATD, who host the main site, do not track/publish a common set of metrics – except hit counts.

 

[Ron Sardo]

Yes, but unfortunately - GoDaddy, who host the forum, and ATD, who host the main site, do not track/publish a common set of metrics – except hit counts.

Software
http://www.webalizer.org/

Sample of report
http://www.webalizer.org/sample/index.html

 

[AlanZ]

Can we also assume that the report doesn't filter out seach engine crawling of the site? That usually accounts for a significant number of the hits.

 

[Ron Sardo]

Can we also assume that the report doesn't filter out seach engine crawling of the site? That usually accounts for a significant number of the hits.

There is software available to track this as well.
It can easily be as much as 25%.

It's a two edge sword, you want the search engines to crawl your site but hate the bandwidth they require. Higher rankings on search engines means the more they crawl a site.