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What happened to the hit counter figures on the main page?

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What happened to the hit counter figures on the main page?

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Because hit counters are only as reliable as the people that use them we decided to drop a counter script when we moved servers on 13th June 2005. If someone bookmarks a page inside the site they will bypass the counter anyway. Other sites put their counters on their menu pages and that can lead to one visitor notching up ten hits for a single viewing of the site as they go back and forth in the pages. We have the ability to see the number of unique visitors to our site and this tends to be the best number to use. Since we moved servers we decided to use only actual visitors for the statistics. The bottom line is, we’re a popular site with on average well over 50,000 visitors each month. You can see the statistics for the TimeWarp site by clicking this link.