Things cooled a bit after the healthcare vote, but I thought I’d take a moment to note that March was Anchor Rising’s most trafficked month ever:

For the uninitiated, “visits” are calculated as unique visitors coming back during a time not less than an hour. In other words, one person downloading a dozen pages within a half hour is just one visit. Another person coming back every hour on the hour counts each time. This particular software also filters out robots and other non-people visitors for the final count.
The reason I pay attention to this software is that it’s been consistent where our other methods are erratic, even though they’d permit us to make greater claims. The reason I track visits is that “unique visitors” doesn’t capture reader devotion, and “page views” and “hits” are susceptible to design tricks. (If a site gets you to download a lot of files just to view its main page, it can claim extra pages and hits.)
The key point, though, is that we continue to grow, and we’re very glad to have you reading, supporting, and challenging us. If you’d also like to help us move things to the next level, please consider financial support, as well:
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Anchor Rising
P.O. Box 751
Portsmouth, RI 02871

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