SCIY's readership is growing rapidly, and now totals over 5,000 distinct persons per month. This is a lower bound based on the number of "distinct hosts served," which BlogHarbor defines as follows:

Distinct hosts served

This is a count of the individual computers that accessed at least one page of your blog during that day and month.

 

By "distinct", we mean that if the same computer accesses your blog more than once, it will still count as only one host.

 

Note that while you can use this number to estimate the number of readers you had on a particular day or month, it counts computers, not people. A computer that gets used by several people who all read your blog still counts as just one distinct host.



SCIY's 2006 stats to date:


A.  Distinct Hosts Served (Individual Readers)
B.  Bytes Transferred (MB)
C.  Page Views (HTML)

                      A            B            C

Jan.               274          83        1,296

Feb.               515        106        1,454

Mar.               553        105        1,471

Apr.               322        109        1,582   

May             3,298        235        5,350

Jun.             5,121        317        6,497

Jul.              5,118        565      12,576



Blogharbor's definitions of "Bytes Transferred" and "Page Views":


Bytes transferred

Whenever someone views a page on your blog, information is transferred from the system's servers to their computer.  This statistic is a measure of the amount of transferred information for that day and month.

 

To give you a sense of perspective, both Tolstoy's novel 'War and Peace' and a typical medium-to-high quality picture taken on a 3-megapixel camera at 2016-by-1512 resolution are each said to represent 1 million bytes (or 1 megabyte) of data.

 

HTML Requests

This is the number of pages from your blog viewed using a web browser during that day and month.