The first counter was activated on 17 February 2000, which only measured hits to the portal page. Subsequently counters were placed on the second-level pages (eg. culture, history, politics etc). As most search engines target individual pages, and as many users may never access the site portal, these statistics undercount the total site useage. On 6 September 2001 a new counter was established to measure the total usage of all pages on the site and was installed during that month on all pages of the site. That counter commenced count at 44,948, which is the sum of useage of all main pages with counters to that date. This figure grossly undercounts the total site useage (possibly by as much as a factor of 6), but was the only objectively verifiable value available. From then on, all sub pages have the same counter so that direct visits to lower-order pages contribute to a unified overall site visit count.

Commencing June 2003 the site was placed on a different server, where data were collected differently, and a number of services counted in the previous period, are not registered. In the graphical display shown below, the data from February 2000 until August 2001 are based on the total counts of the following subpages which had individual counters: becke.html, Biblio.html, culture.html, environment.html , health.html, history.html, literature.html, marshall.html, politics.html, WhatisNew.html.

The statistics displayed on this page are updated on a monthly basis only.