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August 2004 Site Performance Summary
Who said the "dog days of summer" need to be slow? August of 2004 has turned out to be our second-busiest month in the history of ATS.
During August, we experienced a total of 873,452 unique user sessions, which is 96% of our previous record on May of 2004 (which was primarily due to have a major story about Nick Berg being extremely well indexed
on Google).
However, when looking at pure page views, August of 2004 had the highest number of pages viewed on ATS ever at 21.3 million! That's almost
twice as many as our previous high of 10.7! So it's clear that people were spending more time on ATS, looking at more content.
The single most-popular content page throughout the month was the War on Terrorism forum, followed closely by the UFO and Aliens forum. The most popular forum thread was, of course, the Very Scary End Of The World Article thread which continues to
be a big Google draw.
On the main site, our Area 51 Page remains the most popular
of the main site content pages, followed in a close second by the Aircraft Index page.
We continue to be a major force in search engine topics within our category. A record 217,189 users came to ATS from searches on Google
alone, and a total of 9,713 unique website URL's have referred visitors to ATS. A total of 43,878 unique search terms brought people to ATS, with the
following ranking as the top 10 searches:
- above top secret
- area 51
- conspiracies
- john titor
- novatech society
- abovetopsecret
- lori hacking
- comanche helicopter
- philadelphia project
- novus tek
And finally, we continue to be an interesting destination for users "in the know" as we've experienced the following session activity from these
domains:
- Navy.mil - 4,529 sessions
- Af.mil - 3,416 sessions
- Nipr.mil - 2,382 sessions
- Army.mil - 1,593 sessions
- Usps.gov - 393 sessions(!)
Another great month for ATS!
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