Hit Counter Tells All　 -Japanese-
　

had left up a dummy counter with the number set at zero

This did draw a lot of attention, but after giving it some thought, I finally put up a counter on February 6th, 2000. The web site was closed temporarily for a month in July due to moving, but after this move, I did some statistical calculations starting at the end of August for 2.5 months, and took a good look at them. The statistics told me an unexpected story. Take a look at the figure below.

When I saw this, I was surprised. I had been thinking that people would think of hooking up on Saturdays and Sundays, the weekends. What came up was quite the opposite.

Office workers, on weekdays, with the peak coming on Wednesday must be accessing from their work places. They must be busy on Mondays catching up and starting the working week.

In my younger days, I would go to play golf on weekdays because the golf courses were expensive on weekends. Besides, many of my friends said that it was easier to slip out and would go in the middle of the week, because if they took either Friday or Monday off, that would result in 3 consecutive days off and would disrupt their work schedule.

"I see, I see."

This shows the distribution of accesses by the respective time range. People browse through "Story of Jazz" mid-day. When I work on this, or browse through other sites, I do it after work in the middle of the night, but it seems the rest of the world is the opposite. Summed up, the numbers come up as below

"Employers, if you think you've done well by supplying your employees with one computer each, one of these days, you may end up like that department store or insurance company. Beware, take care."

There are visits from fans from even the Kingdom of Tonga. This means that there are jazz fans everywhere. Maybe it's some Japanese who went to Tonga as a bride, or it may even be the King of Tonga himself. What a delightful thought.

I was really surprised by the access from the US government and the Pentagon. That there are people visiting from such locations means that there are jazz fans like you in these places as well.

There is no border in the world of internet. You need no passport. This world is a step ahead of our real world.

The hit rate went way down during the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. I had expected that the rate would go down just about the same way in December.

Something unusual happened, though. Suddenly, the hit rate went up three times, and on December 13, 2000, a new record of 154 was set. "What's this?", I was surprised, and when I checked it out, I found that there was a page on So-net called URL-TODAY. This web site had been introduced there which resulted in the sudden surge. These visitors are probably only transient. Very like the Japanese.

Another thing was that this site was introduced in a web page magazine called "WWW Yellow Page Vol. 10.". Automatic search engines are satisfying enough, but to find a good web page is not easy. So, a business in finding good web sites by hand works as well.

Well, there are so many businesses in the world.

The hit rate will probably go down again during the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

What surprised me even more was that at the end of October 2002, there were 1000 hits in two days. I still have not figured out what that was.

Now, it is April 2003. The pattern of conduct of those visiting this site has been changing. Take a look at the figure below first. Night owl jazz fans are on the increase. There are more hits between 22:00-24:00 than during lunch breaks.

The guess is that the number of those with personal computers at home has grown, and the computer network has spread widely

The figure of the distribution of hit numbers by the days of the week has changed as well.

Hits on Saturdays and Sundays have increased. This also indicates that accesses from private homes have increased.

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