Traffic is WAY WAY up.
Yesterday, we saw 88,393 after excluding robots, which I define as anyone who sees more than 1000 pages, or anyone whose browser reports a 'http agent' that I know to be a robot.
That's a record. By way of comparison, we averaged just under 48,000 pageviews last month.
Perhaps more interestingly, the number of unique visitors per day hit 20,000+ for the first time yesterday, up from typical days of 6,000-9,000 earlier this month, and an average of 8181 last month.
Unique editors also hit a record yesterday of 351 unique ip numbers doing editing. This typically has hovered around 150-250.
I am not sure what the cause is, if any. It could just be a highly favorable update at Google, which is our primary source of traffic on a day to day basis. (More even than Bomis, hmph, some supporters THEY turn out to be, ha ha.)
--Jimbo
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