Botanical Society of America
Web Site Statistics:
March 1997 to July 1999

Total hits: 377,346 hits (from March 4, 1997 through June 30, 1999)

In June 1999, there were 19,962 hits with logons from 5406 unique hosts. This represents 33.0, requests/day and 794.6 requests per day (counting unsuccessful ones). The highest month was May, 1999 with 26,054 hits with logons from 6102 unique hosts. This represents 40.5, requests/day and 972.4 requests per day (counting unsuccessful ones). The second highest month was March 1999, with 23,551 hits (logons from 6030 unique hosts), representing 918.8 requests per day (38.3 requests/hour). Each of the first five months of the year have exceeded the monthly counts from 1998. May also had the highest number of different countries of visitors: 69. The highest daily usage ever was July 28, 1997 when the site was featured as site-of-the-day by Yahoo!!, receiving 3,966 hits on that day. The second highest was March 18, 1999 with 1,553.

Requests from the following 70 countries (a new high!) were received in June 1999 (in descending numbers of requests): Canada, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, South Africa, France, Italy, Malaysia, Greece, Netherlands, Israel, New Zealand, Mexico, Sweden, Belgium, India, Spain, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Chile, Finland, Venezuela, Portugal, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Argentina, Russian Federation, South Korea, Denmark, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary, Colombia, Estonia, Tonga, Thailand, Jamaica, Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, China, Austria, Norway, United Arab Emirates, Iceland, Ecuador, Taiwan, Ireland, Slovak Republic, Jordan, Indonesia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Nepal, Macedonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Latvia, Madagascar, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Qatar, and Romania.

In 1998, visits from 98 countries outside the U.S. were logged. Here is an alphabetical list of the countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Former USSR, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldavia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Polynesia (French), Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (USA), and Yugoslavia.

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BSA website established on the International Thomson Publishing server: March 4, 1997
Total number of hits during first full year of use: 86,759 (March 4, 1997 through March 3, 1998)

1997: 58,994 hits (March 4, 1997 through December 31, 1997)
1998: 184,266 hits (January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998)
1999: 134,126 hits (January 1, 1999 through June 30, 1999)