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Posted By: Hankron

As someone who's maintained a website for a long time, I can tell you that web site numbers cannot be examined under a microscope to find the 'real' meaning, especially if you are trying to relate it to sales. In fact, I rarely use web counters on my site anyore, because I have found that they don't have any profound meaning and you find yourself referring to the 'hits' less and less.

I do think that the total hits (including a single person visiting a bunch of pages many times) is a more worthwhile indication than just looking at 1 person = 1 hit. On person creating a lot of hits, means he or she found the site engaging-- wanted to check out many pages, perhaps returned the next day, then next week. On the other hand, one person making one hit may indicate the person went to the site by accident or thought it sucked from just looking at the web page.

The numbers Elliot posted, one way or the other, that there is an intense interested in the board.