by Web Minister, December 2, 2001

In November, 2001, MIM finally started speaking to the majority of the world with the addition of follow-up Chinese articles after the first one appeared on the website in October. The single most requested news article of the month was in Chinese.

Before I list information for November, 2001 and how it compared with November 2000, I will explain a little about the nature of the 2000 statistics. The most popular time to read MIM's web site was 5 pm on Wednesdays. In November, 2000, over 9% of our traffic came from ".edu" domains. Rivalling that traffic was the traffic from Italian computer domains, with over 8% of all traffic that month. At first, the high figure caused me to doubt the software used for all Web Ministry reports called "Analog," because we have no Italian articles on the web site. However, it appears that that month a popular Italian website linked to MIM.

Countries getting at least 100 pages from the MIM web site in November, 2000

Also, in 2000, the leading source of referrals to MIM was inktomi.com associated with "Excite" which may now be folding as we speak.

Summary statistics comparing November 2000 and November 2001

I was happy to see that .zip file transfers maintained their levels from last month when we instituted a new improvement of security by distributing the entire MIM web site and various sub-topics through .zip files.

Usage of MIM's web site is different this year, because we have a page specializing on the war in Afghanistan, which takes much traffic that used to go to the MIM Notes web page. To understand how we compare with how the web page was set up a year ago, I prepared the following table that has the potential to show any regressing areas of our work.

November 2001 Percentage Change from Previous Year in Top 6 November, 2000 Departments

Web page department	November 2000 hits	November 2001 hits	% change
MIM Notes	5215	3294	-36.8%
Home page	2520	4929	+95.6%
Black Panther page	913	2838	+211%
What's New	685	910	+32.8%
Art	676	2384	+253%
Classic Quotes	562	602	+7.1%

The most popular Afghanistan-related story in November 2001 was our story mourning the September 11th victims translated into Chinese with 109 hits. Next in popularity was "Bush calls for militarism and repression at home," with 66 requests and 63 requests for our "University spies on foreign students" that was posted October 1st.

At this time I'd also like to remind readers that as in past months these statistics include my own reading of the web page. Hence, I'd discount home page readings by 300 hits for the hits just by people developing it and I'd also discount the World Trade Center story hits at 3 hits per story, because those hits are just those of the developers, and not the public.

No article in MIM Notes outside of Afghanistan-related stories garnered more than 36 hits. That includes back issues.

Spotlight MIM Notes

Web page department	Number of visits
Home page	4929
MIM Notes	3294
World Trade Center collection text files only (no .html)	2963
Black Panther collection	2838
Art	2384
Whatsnew	910
Movies	894
What is MIM?	884
Classic Quotes and Controversies	602
Chinese language page	591
Myths of Mao article	410
"What is MIM?" article	383
Misplaced Attica article	380
"What is MIM"	291
MIM Theory	295
Radio page	298
radio program "usprogrameintheme.ra"	293
November 16, 1968 Black Panthers article	281
FAQ	279
California "bandgcal.pdf"	268

We also had 190 hits on the Spanish article "Panama y los Yanquis" and 155 hits on the general "Notas Rojas" page. We had 132 requests for our French page, including 98 hits for a French version of a PCP (Peruvian comrades) document against elections, 46 hits for a review of Russian film-maker Eisenstein and 45 hits for our story on the "Summit of the Americas." There were also 97 hits for our Russian page and 80 for German, with 25 hits on the story about German Green leader J. Fischer.

Story name	# of hits
"Panama y los yanquis"	190
Zapatistas	100
New political restrictions on immigration	44
A guide to the four centers in international communist organization	44
"Violence comes home to Amerikans"	41
"Mourn" the victims in the World Trade Center	34
Pseudo-feminists beat the tambourines of war	34

Top five theory articles by number of times requested

Theory article	# times requested
Myths of Mao	410
What is MIM? (article)	323
Three points	233
DC murder	202
FBI's war on southern California BPP	194