Traffic - ProCon.org

I. Sessions* by Month, Quarter and Year:A session is any 30-minute or less period of time in which an individual IP address accesses one or more files from one ProCon.org website. This definition of a “session” comes from Urchin (now owned by Google) – the software program used to track our website traffic. Click here for details on how our sessions are counted.

	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Q1	Apr.	May	June	Q2	July	Aug.	Sep.	Q3	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Q4	Total
2009	393,124	442,091	539,623	1,374,838	574,639	515,266	360,215	1,450,120	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008	378,489	445,541	457,175	1,281,205	528,715	467,624	324,841	1,321,180	341,331	301,020	515,440	1,157,791	678,979	595,174	412,958	1,687,111	5,447,287
2007	249,777	253,489	298,888	802,154	305,021	307,815	310,505	923,341	312,704	248,421	275,835	836,960	321,041	356,081	314,998	992,120	3,554,575
2006	144,645	139,076	184,386	468,107	176,227	156,240	125,332	457,799	168,068	148,223	180,294	496,585	240,884	274,141	245,059	760,084	2,182,575
2005	82,825	104,538	119,566	306,929	163,107	161,338	150,750	475,195	127,457	111,159	109,351	347,967	130,647	140,945	115,928	387,520	1,517,611
2004	-	-	53,931	53,931	96,175	107,578	75,865	279,618	80,176	72,309	71,785	224,269	89,480	106,581	81,283	277,345	835,163

II. Sessions by Website and Year: (Alphabetical order with parent site first) [Launch date]		2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009 Actual (through 6/30/09)**	2009 Projected (through 12/31/09)
TOTALS BY YEAR		835,163	1,517,611	2,182,575	3,554,575	5,447,287***	2,824,958	5,649,916
% Increase Over Previous Year		-	82%	44%	63%	53%	-	4%
Total Sessions Since 2004		835,163	2,352,774	4,535,349	8,089,924	13,537,211	16,362,169	19,187,127

	ProCon.org [Parent Site] (www.procon.org)	72,124	65,923	222,011	347,241	799,756	489,240	978,480

1.	2008 Election (2008election.procon.org) [Archived - no longer updated]	-	-	-	22,353 [Dec. 12, 2007]	914,622	92,883	185,766
2.	ACLU (aclu.procon.org)	83,886	51,170	183,536	348,068	279,171	136,665	273,330
3.	Alternative Energy (alternativeenergy.procon.org)	-	-	-	-	-	34,112 [Mar. 2, 2009]	68,224
4.	Big Three Auto (bigthreeauto.procon.org) [Archived - no longer updated]	-	-	-	-	18,708 [Dec. 3, 2008]	29,885	59,770
5.	Born Gay? (borngay.procon.org)	113,100	111,991	170,610	265,303	187,608	94,660	189,320
6.	Death Penalty (deathpenalty.procon.org)	-	-	-	-	70,093 [July 31, 2008]	171,488	342,976
7.	Euthanasia (euthanasia.procon.org)	-	-	-	285,313 [Jan. 8, 2007]	378,781	248,495	496,990
8.	Felon Voting (felonvoting.procon.org)	-	-	-	41,596 [May 1, 2007]	148,905	49,399	98,798
9.	Illegal Immigration (immigration.procon.org)	-	-	-	15,465 [Nov. 26, 2007]	220,988	123,676	247,352
10.	Insider Trading (insidertrading.procon.org)	-	-	-	-	25,690 [May 30, 2008]	26,248	52,496
11.	Israeli - Palestinian (israelipalestinian.procon.org)	67,161	275,957	446,958	477,342	377,412	220,045	440,090
12.	Medical Marijuana (medicalmarijuana.procon.org)	301,337	481,500	618,002	774,851	758,062	438,420	876,840
13.	Milk (milk.procon.org)	-	-	-	29,427 [Sep. 28, 2007]	164,066	80,208	160,416
14.	Nuclear Power (www.nuclearpowerprocon.org) [Archived - no longer updated]	6,354	15,232	32,627	41,658	50,625	28,755	57,510
15.	Precription Drug Ads (prescriptiondrugs.procon.org)	-	-	-	-	-	1,621 [June 8, 2009]	11,347
16.	Prostitution (prostitution.procon.org)	-	-	-	151,660 [May 14, 2007]	440,317	237,128	474,256
17.	Rose Bird (www.rosebirdprocon.org) [Archived - no longer updated]	5,462	9,668	12,862	16,346	19,234	11,016	22,032
18.	Sports and Drugs (sportsanddrugs.procon.org)	-	-	-	-	460 [Dec. 29, 2008]	59,010	118,020
19.	Under God (undergod.procon.org)	49,384	158,720	149,094	249,351	190,326	82,035	164,070
20.	U.S. - Iraq (usiraq.procon.org)	136,355	347,451	315,873	401,776	298,451	136,309	272,618
21.	Voting Machines (votingmachines.procon.org)	-	-	31,002 [May 23, 2006]	86,825	104,012	34,005	68,010
TOTALS BY YEAR		835,163	1,517,611	2,182,575	3,554,575	5,447,287	2,824,958	5,649,916
% Increase Over Previous Year		-	82%	44%	63%	53%	-	4%
Total Sessions Since 2004		835,163	2,352,774	4,535,349	8,089,924	13,537,211	16,362,169	19,187,127
Year		2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009 Actual (through 6/30/09)**	2009 Projected (through 12/31/09)

*A session is any 30-minute or less period of time in which an individual IP address accesses one or more files from one ProCon.org website. This definition of a “session” comes from Urchin (now owned by Google) – the software program used to track our website traffic.

Some examples of how sessions are counted:
• If a person looks at the Medical Marijuana ProCon.org Historical Timeline for five minutes, leaves their computer for 15 minutes to get a snack, and then returns to view the Medical Marijuana ProCon.org Votes and Polls page, then that use counts as one session.
• If a person looks at ProCon.org for five minutes, then ACLU ProCon.org for 10 minutes, then back to ProCon.org for five minutes, then that use counts as two sessions.
• If a person looks at US-Iraq ProCon.org for 10 minutes, then Israeli-Palestinian ProCon.org for 40 minutes, and then back to US-Iraq ProCon.org for 30 minutes, then that use counts as four sessions.
• If a person uses ACLU ProCon.org for 70 minutes, then uses Born Gay ProCon.org for 70 minutes, then that use counts as six sessions.
• If a person uses each six of ProCon.org’s websites for 40 minutes each, then that use counts as 12 sessions.
• If a person looks at a ProCon.org issue site (Born Gay ProCon.org, ACLU ProCon.org, etc.) for 20 minutes, then an hour later revisits the same site for another 5 minutes, then that use counts as two sessions.
** Note, however, that we have learned as of Aug. 2008 that:
A. If a person looks at a third party website (say, for example, Google.com) for two seconds and that Google.com page happens to have on it an image (say, for example, a button labeled “Visit ProCon.org”) loading directly from the ProCon.org website, then the ProCon.org button having loaded on the Google.com page counts as one session even though the person never clicked on the “Visit ProCon.org” button and may not have even noticed the button. However, if that same “Visit ProCon.org” button loaded directly from the Google.com website vs. directly from the ProCon.org website, then it would not count as a session.
[Note: We did not count 90,000 sessions for Medical Marijuana ProCon.org in July 2008 because the traffic came from a button at stopthedrugwar.org using an image that loaded directly from the ProCon.org server. We also did not count 64,722 sessions in the third quarter of 2008 because that traffic came from an image on the 2008 Election ProCon.org website that was being loaded directly from our Under God ProCon.org website. The reason that we removed the 154,722 “sessions” was because those visitors had not even viewed the site that recorded the session.]
B. Because we changed our URLs on June 30, 2008 to include third-level domains (aclu.procon.org, medicalmarijuana.procon.org, borngay.procon.org, etc) instead of their prior two-level domain format (www.acluprocon.org, www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org, www.borngayprocon.org, etc.) if a person visits a bookmarked ProCon.org URL (say www.medicalmarijuana.procon.org/california.htm) that automatically redirects him/her to a different URL on a new third-level domain ProCon.org website (say medicalmarijuana.procon.org/california.asp) then that counts as two sessions even though the person never consciously selected two sites to visit.

[Note: We did not count 216,574 sessions in the third quarter of 2008 because that traffic was coming from WWW links that were being automatically routed to non-WWW pages and were therefore being double counted.]
*** The 2008 Year Total Sessions (5,447,287) includes 914,622 sessions from our success 2008 Election website (2008election.procon.org)