During the summer of 2002, this APIRS web site attained a cyber milestone: we now receive more than 1 million hits per month. ("Hits" are defined as pages viewed.) We know this because our brand new Sun/Unix dual processor server tells us so. It also tells us that most people access our web site on Tuesdays between 11 AM and 2 PM. (Nonetheless, about 120,000 hits/month occur between midnight and 4 AM: pings from our users on the other side of the planet no doubt.) The most popular pages on our 7,000 page web site include our plant photopages (twice as many hits as any others); our line drawings pages; our Sea Grant sponsored pages; aquatic birds pages; and our online glossary.
The online APIRS database receives around 2,100 hits per month, which is quite high considering the rigmarole users must go through to use it. By January 2003, the database should be accessible through a new web-style interface that will make it easier to use.
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