Weekly requests of HTML files in 1997, 1998 and 1999

Weekly requests of my Web pages in 1997, 1998 and 1999

week number Notes:

Weeks always are Monday until Sunday.
1997:
- week 1 starts with Monday 30 Dec. 1996, but counting starts at 1 Jan. 1997
- week 52 ends with Sunday 28 Dec. 1997, when counting ends
- average over weeks 1 - 52: 4665.9 requests
- year total: 251924 requests
- in week 2 logging of the requests was not working for nearly the whole week
1998:
- week 1 starts with Monday 29 Dec. 1997, but counting starts at 1 Jan. 1998
- week 52 ends with Sunday 27 Dec. 1998, when counting ends
- average over weeks 1 - 52: 10853.7 requests
- year total: 582505 requests
1999:
- week 1 starts with Monday 4 Jan. 1999, but counting starts at 1 Jan. 1999
- week 52 ends with Sunday 2 Jan. 2000, when counting ends
- average over weeks 1 - 52: 15017.2 requests
- year total: 781589 requests
- in weeks 8 and 13 logging of the requests was not working for a short while
In each graph the blue line shows a linear fit through in weekly requests as plotted, the grey line the average.
About 3/4-th of the requests is for the Music and Lyrics Pages, which contain more than half of the HTML files I have.
The count does of course not include HTML requests from local machines.

Note on Search Engines:: Search engines, i.e. computers roaming the Web in search of Web pages to store in their data base, actually pollute these statistics a bit: a request for a page from such a machine means no-one is really looking at that page.
These machines should therefore be excluded, but that is a bit difficult, as it is not always clear which machine is a search engine. For that reason I have chosen not to exclude any of these.
A rough estimate I once made in March 1998 showed that some 20% of the requests is probably from search engines.

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