Jim Angus ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: I have done a very quick and dirty survey to determine how many times a few
: particular natural history museums' websites are referenced on the web.
: The data is very poor quality because I was not able to entirely eliminate
: references which appear at the museums own site.  Take the numbers as ball
: park figures.

Hi Jim. What units are these measures in? Are they pure counts, or hits?
The difference being that *web-counters* count the number of times a
specific web page is accessed, and hits measure the number of file
transfers for visit. In other words, a single visit to a homepage is one
on the web counter, but if that homepage consists of an HTML file and two
image files then the same single visit would count as 3 hits. Just
wondering if all these measures are in the same units.

: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County            ~500
: Academy of Natural Sciences                             ~300
: Bishop museum                                           ~900
: Carnegie Museum of Natural History                      ~50
: Chicago Academy of Sciences                             ~200
: Field Museum                                            ~3000
: UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology                      ~10000
: Smithsonian Museum of NH                                ~2000

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