Visits

6/07 - 186,971

10/06 - 182,757

5/06 - 197,166

4/05 - 145,962

2/05 - 144,623

5/04 - 111,955

4/04 -133,060

11/03 - 118,128

10/03 - 120,006

9/03 - 100,202 

8/03 - 78,838

7/03 - 119,729

6/03 - 85,099

1/03 - 84,338

12/02 - 69,464

11/02 - 75,092

10/02 - 71,938

9/02 - 67,426

8/02 - 61,270

7/02 - 65,933

6/02 - 64,094

5/02 - 78,566

4/02 - 80,808

3/02 - 72,371

2/02 - 69,663

1/02 - 67,741

12/01 - 51,755

11/01 - 48,578

10/01 - 46,454

9/01 - 55,813

8/01 - 57,103
session

7/01 - 48,000 sessions

4/01 - 69,000 sessions

3/01 - 65,000 sessions

2/01 - 59,300 sessions

1/01 - 71,000 sessions

WebTrend Statistics

<== Click on the month date to get details.  This is by way of holding up a mirror to the community of users.  The stats are skewed a little by people who wander in, take one look, decide it's not for them, and leave, usually about 20%.  The rest spend more time (therefore greater than the average session) and visit some of our over 1200 pages.  Also, sessions are not visitors but visits.  Many folks come several times a month.

Note: sessions (visits) are not hits.   Each time you view a page, you actually generate many hits, on the order of 10 hits per page.  A hit is counted each time an individual component on a page is accessed (graphic, banner, menu bar, etc.) when the page is loaded. A page view is one page. One session or visit is counted each time one user views a number of pages then exits.  It is an imprecise measure as identifying and tracking a single user is not a precise matter.

We find that our statistics hold up well, especially when compared to the exile sites. For example, http://www.cubafreepress.org, which received over $280,000 from USAID in 2000, got 292,000 hits in May, 2002, their highest stats on record to that date. In the same month, we had over 1 million hits. Another leading exile site, http://www.cubanet.org, does not display its monthly stats but claims 1 million hits as a monthly rate for the end of 2001. Our guess is that this site is also heavily subsidized.