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There may have been some growth in visitors to my website in 2007:
1,548,099 unique sessions in 2007 as opposed to 1,491,845
unique sessions in 2006 and 1,252,175 in 2005. Pageviews
were 2,137,172 in 2007 as opposed to 2,197,133 pageviews
in 2006 and 1,668,890 in 2005. According
to the traffic rankings at

ALEXA.COM on December 31, 2007 the
3-month average world-wide ranking for

BENBEST.COM
was 240,723, which was more than twice as high as

Alcor Life Extension Foundation (498,520) and about
four times as high as the

Cryonics Institute (962,108). That is far below

Wikipedia (rank 8 on the same date), but still pretty
impressive. I actually think that Wikipedia is responsible
for much of the erosion of my popularity growth. To a lesser
extent, the lack of professional looking quality (due to my
handwritten HTML) is another factor cutting into my popularity.
My ranking on the "History of Christmas" search in Google
has dropped from near the top of the first
page to near the bottom of the first page. Nonetheless,
I got a plug on December 21 from WhatReallyHappened.com
that gave my Christmas page 2,398 hits, probably the
most hits any page on my website has ever experienced
in a single day. My highest country ranking by Alexis.com
was in Jamaica, for some reason: 13,911 followed by the
Philippines: 31,344. My rankngs in the United States and
Canada and Germany were 112,124 and 180,113 and 480,891,
respectively.

Below are some tables that summarize comparative
statistics for my website in the last couple of years.
I have just discontinued my use of Superstats in favor
of Urchin as a source of data because Superstats is so
expensive and does not really give me much additional
information other than comparison of past months and
years -- and I have reason to believe the data is suspect.
All of the data may be understated because I have heard
that some ISPs like AOL do caching of websites, so I would
not record many AOL hits (actually I never see AOL as a
source in my statistics).

Here are my comparisons of the PageViews I got in December
2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 for some of my favorite pages (you have
to look WAY DOWN in this silly Blogger):

December PageViews Webpage 2004 2005 2006 2007 The History of Christmas 20,179 44,446 39,842 27,477 Mechanisms of Aging 1,850 4,105 6,392 7,873 Alcohol -- Health Benefit or Hazard? 1,142 2,943 2,829 2,408 Cryonics -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 670 973 1,311 1,105 Vitrification in Cryonics 511 772 1,110 959 Say's Law and Economic Growth 482 568 619 651 An Austrian Theory of Business Cycles 329 471 634 651 Schemers in the Web 243 416 767 462

Monthly Sessions (thousands) month 2005 2006 2007 January 88 125 130 February 98 125 129 March 116 148 139 April 114 136 147 May 114 126 133 June 69 98 114 July 66 92 106 August 75 92 101 September 97 114 117 October 128 145 143 November 140 148 149 December 147 143 139

December PageViews by Search Phrase phrase 2005 2006 2007 history of christmas 6,164 7,954 2,442 melatonin 69 80 1,532 neurotransmitters 1,024 823 468 christmas history 1,134 747 494 causes of death 222 565 805 cryonics 92 119 153 obsessive love 75 15 100 vitrification 62 70 46 lying 14 0 58 deprenyl 68 73 87 lipoic acid 96 300 115 ubiquinol 11 290 45 diogenes 621 275 136 dha 42 186 247 history christmas 124 180 68 monetary system 20 79 28 best homepage 82 95 105 essential fatty acids 124 90 77 say's law 115 86 65 n-acetylcysteine 201 81 293 fixed income securities 125 50 33 ischemia reperfusion 14 20 29

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