Popularised by Mark Twain 1 , we know that there are three kinds of lies: “Lies, dammed lies, and statistics.”
On the verge of WikiEducator's first birthday, we have logged about 2.3 million hits. This week we were ranked by Alexa as the 354,568 most visited website. This puts WikiEducator within the top 8% of websites on the planet. That's not too bad for a small wiki working on the development of free content for education, especially when considering that there are approximately 48 million active websites in the world (according to Netcraft's 2 2006 figures). The statistics for March 2006 show an average of 20,000 hits per day from approximately 900 unique visits. We are currently recording visits from 61% of the 193 countries in the world.
An interesting way to look at WikiEducator's growth is to compare the number of days it has taken to reach cumulative totals in steps of a half-million hits. It took WikiEducator:
- 157 days to reach its first half-million hits
- 02 days to reach the next half-million
- 41 days to reach the 1.5 million mark
- 21 days to reach the 2.0 million threshold
- 1254 reads
