Again, thanks in part to the heroic struggle of the Iraqi people against imperialist invaders, April was a big breakthrough month for the web page and MIM Notes distribution. It's difficult to celebrate when we know that much of the interest in our web page arose from the brutality of the war on Iraq and when we also know we did not succeed in stopping the terrorism of our government.

We did not maintain the blistering pace of the first few days of April, because the population largely concluded that the "war is over." Attention dropped off and then resumed at a higher and steadier level toward the end of the month. For MIM, the brightest spot is the improvement of our agitation numbers from low levels. Especially in the past year, we seemed to be attracting people more and more consistently for historical and theoretical purposes. People were reading more material and deepening their understanding of MIM. Now we have a "widening" trend going on with a large influx of people looking at our web page.

Summary statistics comparing April 2002 and April 2003

Web traffic broken down by department: March vs. April 2003

In this report we compare March with April. We have to remember that March has one more day than April and thus we expect our monthly totals of people visiting a web page to be lower if a department merely stagnated. If number of visitors only shrunk 3% over March in a department, then the department was stagnant, not actually shrinking on a per day traffic basis.

This month, the Black Panther page, MIM Notes 1-250 and the arts page each had more hits than the home page. The above table counts the languages all the same way, based on number of visitors. It reveals that Spanish is now language number two, Chinese third and French fourth for our web page.

We expect May will be another big month for MIM. We are also working again this year to see what we can do to avoid the summer slump we usually see.

At the current pace of growth, MIM would achieve the suggested Five Year Plan for web page growth in less than three years. If there are a number of wars going on, perhaps MIM would achieve the goal sooner. There are both external factors beyond our control and internal factors within our grasp. MIM has never had a better understanding of what it is that increases our web page traffic. There is continuous demand for our documents. Although at some points in our history we have had trouble giving out papers and articles fast enough, we are definitely now in a position where we cannot write material fast enough or find enough money to get the material out there.