ATS Traffic Summary - 03/2005

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ont color="#000000" size=4>March 2005 Site Performance Summary

After some "problems" with 3rd party vendor traffic reporting solutions (our traffic caused the costs to exceed the cost of our servers!), we're back to reporting on the site traffic in a regular installments.

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During March, we experienced a total of 1,222,366 unique user sessions, which is our single-biggest month ever (and only our second month over 1 million unique users). As we can see from the graph, overall traffic was pretty flat, with a very slight upward trend through the month.

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Next, when we look at pure page views, March of 2005 had the highest number of pages viewed on ATS ever at 8.79 million! There have been previously higher page views reported in the past, but these are now adjusted page views where we are only reporting traffic on pages with actual content. We had an interesting traffic spike related to an unfortunate news event involving a former member.

The single most-popular content page throughout the month was the href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/ /forum/19/pg1/srtpages" target="_new">Aliens & UFO's forum, followed closely by the href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/16/pg1/srtpages" target="_new">War on Terrorism forum. This is a shift of the two forums, like due to increased interest in UFO's because of a popular Peter Jennings special. The most popular content was, the href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/911_pentagon_757_plane_evidence.html" target="_new">Evidence That A Boeing 757 Really Did Impact the Pentagon on 9/11 main site content piece. This article is now a significant Google draw to ATS.

We continue to be a major force in search engine topics within our category. A record 394,849 users came to ATS from searches on various search engines. A total of 69,616 unique search terms brought people to ATS, with the following ranking as the top 10 searches:

• area 51
  
• above top secret
  
• conspiracies
  
• abovetopsecret
  
• philadelphia project
  
• abovetopsecret.com
  
• comanche helicopter
  
• john titor
  
• nouveau tech society
  
• conspiracy

Another great month for ATS!

Got to love it when tens of thousands of people enter ATS because they were searching for John Titor. He's the most interesting time traveller on the net.

I wonder if the redirect page (after you post) counts as a pure page view aswell.. this is a good idea for Alexa.

No. We're only counting pages with actual content.

keep up the great work members, non-members, mods, and everyone else!!!

you guys and gals are great

What the heck happened march 19th that caused such an upswing in views.

Wow, just imagine your Alexa ranking if this was the case. ATS would "appear" to be even more valuable.