[Robert A Cook PE]

The color highlighting of each day according to its number is VERY, VERY instructive:

Look at how few, how very raw it in 1997-2000, 2001 even, to have even 100 members sign up per day.

Hundreds and hundreds of "black" squares. A handful of light green. One or two weeks when 2 or 3 days would be green.

Now?

The average is nearly 100 per day, most are over 125-150 per day.

Green highlights are the norm, and the rate is increasing.

(Jim rubs his hands in glee and wonder. Now, about those new servers, he cackles merrily, looking under the Christmas tree...)

[Jim Robinson]

Yup. We recently added our 5th server and John already has a couple more on order. We will continue beefing up the system as we add more readers and posters. Now over 168,000 signed up and growing.

Received this note from John on 9/17:

Had about 5.3 million hits yesterday, 180,000 unique visitors. About 38,000 comments.

Still working on restoring the [stats] reports. Installed new tables to track comments and articles by time ranges. I'll be able to resume the daily reports as soon as I write the connecting code.


And this from John the day before:

More than 5 1/2 million hits, almost 200,000 unique visitors.