As promised, I have an update of the statistics regarding our traffic increase following the start of the war.

On the 21th, I posted saying we were seeing a 66% increase in traffic in the period after the 17th. At the time I noted that this was not a very accurate statistic because weekends tend to be light on traffic, which would slant the statistic on the high side.. Now that its been a full week, I can report more accurately what the "war impact" on site traffic has been.

The 17th thru 20th were all really busy days.. Each one a record setter, which spawned the initial 66% increase stat. For the sake of further refinement, that was a 34% increase over the same time period for the week before.. The 66% figure took into account the same span of time immediately before, which was the weekend, when traffic slacks.. In hindsight, that was a really misleading statistic. And to make matters worse, I didn't catch a critical typo in my inital post, causing a figure of 166% to make it to the front page, which in turn caused me to feel like an idiot.. Anyway.. There was a slight falloff in traffic on Friday the 21th, and the 22nd and 23rd were light as expected, but all three days were still higher then normal.

In short, visits are up:

* 31% for the week following the 17th
* 34% for the inital 4 days following the 17th