V8 Website hits predictions for April 2005
Members' predictions of the total V8 Website hits for April 2005
Members are invited to send in their best guess for the total hits figure for April. The member with the guess closest to the total hits figure reported by our hit count service received by the V8 Registrar at midnight on Saturday 30th April 2005 will receive a special free CD with a set of both the V8 and RV8 Workshop Notes. (24.4.05)

The predictions received so far are
David Bonniface
6,893
Tim Hipwell
6,700
Philip Hebert
6,955
Chris Hunt Cooke
6,574
Rob de Joode
6,795
Total hits for April 2005
6,637
So Chris Hunt Cooke is only 63 below the final count and Tim Hipwell is 63 above, with Rob de Joode 158 above. So as we have a draw, free CDs will go to Chris and Tim. A full report on the V8 Website hits for April will be published later today. (1.5.05)
.

Send your guess to the V8 Registrar.

Note we use this (at) format for email addresses to thwart the wretched spammers who harvest email addresses from websites for their sick purposes. So just use @ in the usual way.
V8 Website hits surge by over 14% in March 2005 and 83% since November 2004!
The surge in hits on the V8 Website has accelerated in a serious way during March with a rise to 6,176 from 4,882 hits (+26%) in February. If you adjust the short 28 day February figure to a comparative 31 day count - 5,405 hits - that is still a 14.3% increase! The graph below shows the recent surge from 3,368 in November 2004 to 6,176 in March 2005 - an extraordinary rise of 2,808 hits or 83.4% in only four months. (31.3.05)


Chart covers the period from January 2003 to March 2005 - it shows the clear trend of increasing hits, particularly since November 2004. The green line is the trend line, the red the moving average and the blue the monthly hits.

See the full report of the hits in March 2005 at
March 2005 hit report