40,000

I was just checking *cino web log statistics, as I am wont to do on occasion, and discovered that *culture is not optional sites surpassed 40,000 "unique visitors" in the month of February. The "unique visitor" stat is based on people who view more than one page during a visit, with less than 30 minutes between click-throughs to various pages within the site. So, for example, people who have catapult set as their home page (like me) aren't counted unless they click to another page within the catapultmagazine.com domain. Interestingly, because catapult is spread across two domains (catapultmagazine.com and cultureisnotoptional.com), these stats are a little more impressive than they might otherwise be. Why? Well, if someone were to visit catapult's homepage and, seeing an updated discussion topic, click over to the discussion board (hosted at cultureisnotoptional.com), they wouldn't be counted as a unique visitor on either site because they would have only visited one page on each domain. Hadn't thought of that before ...

While these kinds of statistics are obviously a little hazy, it's still encouraging to think that so many people have been finding their way to this part of the internet. Thanks!