The first half of the third year of the sites’ operation has exceeded all expectations, hit rates are up by 240% from an average 13500 per month in the last half of 2004 to just under 32000 per month for the first half of 2005, resulting in over 190,000 hits so far this year (1^st January to 30^th June 2005).

A lot of this success has been due to the hosting of the updated EU Automotive EMC directive and this can be clearly seen in the enormous hit rate the Papers and Standards sections of the site has received, both are already up 100% on last years total figures. Another section that has seen a significant increase in interest is the Conference pages that have exceeded expectations although this did not translate into an especially good attendance figure at this years Automotive EMC 2005 conference (see conference review in the June Newsletter, issue 10).

The increase over last years figures are drawn into stark relief by the passing of last years total number of hits of just over 132000 in just over 4 months of 2005 on 4th May, the day after the sites highest single hit. Another statistic that impressed the network is the average hit rate of over 1000 per day for the first half of 2005, including weekends, although this figure has fallen since the conference in May and does not look likely to be sustained into the later half of 2005.

The re-indexing of most sub-sections has also seen a reduction in the "Others" section of hits, attributed to robot searches of non-existent pages and attempts to hit sub-levels via non-indexed references. This is down to only 104 from over 18000 in 2004.

Webstats Summary

Measure	Total Hits	Comment
Total Hits for H1,05	191216	1^st January to 30^th June 2005
Average Daily Hits	1056	1332 excluding weekends
Highest Daily Hit	3290	Tue 3-May-05
Lowest Daily Hit	83	Sat 1-Jan-05

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July 2005