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.

May, 2002 monthly website report

by Web Minister, June 3, 2002

May, 2002 was a blockbuster month for MIM's website in terms of achieving MIM's central task of "creating public opinion and the independent institutions of the oppressed to seize power." Rather than declining as in May 2001, readership increased sharply in May 2002 from both a year ago and a month ago. We believe this is proof that we can beat the usual summer trend of a precipitous drop-off in readership. May 2002 showed that it is possible to accelerate MIM web traffic growth beyond it's 80 to 100% annual rate seen the past year.

Summary statistics comparing May 2001 and May 2002*

Statistic	May, 2001	May, 2002	% change
Avg. MIM pages served per day	1010	2361	+133.8%
Number of different computers MIM served	11,217	28,050	+150.1%
Number of different MIM files actively chosen from	2401	3495	+45.6%
MIM data transferred average per day	62.426 megabytes	102.329 megabytes	+63.9%

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

Non-U.$. locations* receiving 100 or more MIM web pages

Ranked by total kilobytes transferred (not number of pages)

Location	Number of pages served
Germany	3865
Canada	2721
Australia	2312
France	780
"United Kingdom"	1912
Sweden	643
Japan	477
Belgium	279
Netherlands	637
Italy	1069
Norway	1137
"South Africa"	254
Finland	430
Spain	432
Philippines	125
China's Taiwan province	220
Brazil	215
Poland	183
Austria	171
Mexico	224
Switzerland	166
I$rael	155
Denmark	178
Estonia	171
Portugal	293
Singapore	154
Czech Republic	103
Russia	141
Argentina	156
Romania	123

*Excludes non-U.$. computers that have .com, .edu or .net suffixes--a very common occurrence. We also exclude another quarter with non-identifiable addresses.

Most popular music reviews

Band	# of times requested
Our metal review in general	110
System of a Down "Toxicity"	70
Tool	68
Tupac	59
Hatebreed	58

May 2002 was the first month in which we had an article in Farsi. Our objective was to let the Farsi-speaking world know that there is a MIM and what it stands for. MIM does not attempt to organize parties in the Third World.

Languages other than English, department home pages only

Department home page	# of sessions
Chinese	1127
Notas Rojas (Spanish) home page text scripts only	231
French	212
German	146
Russian	134
Swedish	123
Italian	114
Finnish	110
Polish	104
Portuguese	99
Norwegian	99
Farsi	80

In the past, I never adequately explained the above table. It does not refer to the number of times the given language page is "hit." The page will be hit some multiple of the times listed in the table above. The above figures point more to the number of "sessions" with that page.

Just some selected other reports:
*Once again, the top read September 11th story is in Chinese and second place goes to the Spanish translation of the definition of terrorism.
*The Tiananmen article in Chinese was served 815 times.
*MIM served the most popular Black Panther article 666 times.
*Readers read 443 pages in MIM Notes 257 in .pdf format.
*The central "RAIL" page had 353 "sessions."
*The California RAIL page had 147 "sessions."

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.