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‘Thank You’ x 1 million

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A little surprisingly, to put it mildly, Head for Points has just hit 1 million ‘unique visitors’ for the past 365 days:

Uniques crop

(The little dip last August is when I accidentally deleted the tracking code and didn’t notice for three days.)

A ‘unique visitor’ is not a person.  It is an IP address.  If, over the past year, you have read HFP from your home, from your office, from a hotel room, from an airport lounge etc then you will have been counted numerous times.  On the other hand, if two people in your house read HfP then only one ‘unique visitor’ is counted.

1 million unique visitors is not 1 million different people.  And many of those just popped over from Google for 30 seconds, read one article and left, never to return.  That said, it is still a slightly scary number.  Thank you all for your support.

Comments (26)

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  • Charlie says:

    Congrats Raffles! Thanks for all the hard work, this is probably my most visited site now along with the BBC!

  • Chan says:

    Congrats

  • Rich says:

    Congratulations Rob, a great milestone, here’s to many more millions in the future!

  • Nick says:

    Well done Rob! Keep up the good work and here’s to the next million!

  • James Ward says:

    Well deserved, Rob. Well done.

    Just one tiny technical correction though. The unique users stat is measured by cookies placed in browsers, not IP address.

    So two people in the same house *are* counted separately – if they each use a different device or browser.

    Conversely, the same person accessing your site from numerous places but always on the same device / browser will *not* have been counted multiple times in this stat. So your numbers are even better than you thought!

    • JQ says:

      And the people who don’t keep cookies will be counted once per day…

      • James Ward says:

        That will be very few people, I’m sure. Most people don’t have a clue what cookies are, let alone how to delete them.

        • Dave says:

          Not so sure about that. Lots of people. Especially in the UK are into the cachback sites. That means clearing cookies all the time!!

          • AndyGWP says:

            or use “private browsing” (or its equivalent) which is available in most browsers now 🙂

    • Tom C says:

      You beat me to it!

  • Andrew says:

    Congratulations Rob. The first million is the hardest, so sure HFP is only going to grow from here.

    Like many others, checking in is part of my morning routine (except when I’m travelling, which leaves a gap in my morning!!!)

  • Matt B says:

    Well done Raffles.

  • rob B says:

    great site

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