Web site visits and downloads

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-16 14:01:02

Around the first of the year, www.boost.org was being visited by about 
1,500 people a week.  The boost_all files were being downloaded around 250 
times a week.

Then we switched hosts, and stopped getting the weekly visit reports; the 
new host required a problematic setup I never go around to completing.  A 
couple of weeks ago I finally completed the setup, and am now getting 
reports again.

While last week obviously may have been totally atypical, the numbers are 
still interesting.  Unique site visitors a week is now around 
4,600.  Downloads of boost_all.zip and boost_all.tar.gz total close to 
2,000.

While I don't put a lot of faith in the specific numbers, the trend is 
still clear.  More and more programmers are finding Boost, and downloading 
the libraries.  That can't be just happenstance; people must actually be 
using our stuff and telling others about Boost:-)

--Beman