A bit of allpar history: May 1997 visitor statistics
The predecessor of Allpar had just moved from Mordor to Simplenet, at z.simplenet.com/cc/, and we were tracking visitors given the change in address.
“During May 1997, there were 4,190 individual visitors; 5,240 total visitors; and 124,285 hits, with 476,745K transmitted. As the month went on and more search-service listings took effect, this number increased. Unfortunately, our mainstays (Altavista and Yahoo) did not record us; Altavista incorrectly has us as a spammer and will not allow the entry of our URL, and Yahoo is simply behind in its updates. Most visitors came from America On-Line, though Boeing had a strong presence for some reason.” (It was later pointed out to us that since Boeing used the same CATIA system as Chrysler, many Chrysler people were hired by Boeing after the takeover was announced and engineers started to flee; the Boeing visitors may have been ex-Chrysler employees, or Boeing managers looking for information on the projects that job applicants had worked on.)
Individual Pages
The top pages were:
May 1997 Page Equivalent page visitors, May 2007 3748 cc/index.html 192145 1973 cc/cars.html 20417 1487 cc/model/models.html 1346 cc/mopar.html 20281 948 cc/faq.html 1765 911 cc/fix/index.html 18590 632 cc/a/index.html (now valiant.org) 457 cc/hemi/Hemicntr.html 2999 453 cc/news.html 46628 336 cc/cr.html 6193 313 cc/help.html 293 cc/hemi/newhemi.html 286 cc/mods.html 274 cc/4bbl.html 4735 251 cc/list.html 236 cc/model/roadrunner.html 4856 226 cc/hemi/hemispec.html 224 cc/fix/codes.html 16508 220 cc/hemi/hemi.html 206 cc/model/superbird.html 4912