Churchill v. University of Colorado: Traffic Report

The Race to the Bottom generally devotes itself to issues of corporate governance.  In that context, we pay some attention to the amount of traffic on the Blog.

Traffic is sometimes counted through reference to the number of different IP addresses that visit a site each day.  This is a surprisingly difficult thing to calculate since different people from the same institution, say a university, may have the same IP address.   The most accurate tabulators insert a cookie into each visitor to ensure that they get a more accurate count. 

It may also be counted by reference to page views.  Page views count the number of total pages visited.  In effect, it takes into account the fact that the same people may come back multiple times in the course of a day.  It is probably a better gauge of the total amount of traffic on a blog.

Before coverage of the Churchill trial, The Race to the Bottom probably averaged about 800 page views a day.  Since coverage began, the number of page views has tripled and quadrupled.  It is a reflection of the serious interest in the trial and the desire by those following it for more information than what is carried in the traditional media.  It is also, in my opinion, a tribute to the strong skills of the students covering the trial.  Below is a table that contains the page views for The Race to the Bottom over the last three weeks. 

	(Views)
March27	1,456
March26	2,054
March25	2,926
March24	3,091
March23	2,228
March20	1,800
March19	1,895
March18	1,890
March17	2,313
March16	1,959
March13	1,899
March12	2,278
March11	3,739
March10	5,154
March9	2,313

Comments

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Thank You All so much for providing this invaluable service and doing such a diligent job reporting this trial. You are correct that many people are relying on this blog to get information about the trial. There are elderly people and people without cars who can not always make the trek down to Denver to sit in court. Thanks Again! Keep up the excellent job!