Recently, there has been a growing trend towards quoting major net hit counter statistics as a judge of net activity. We feel this is very dangerous and presents false data to the public. Stat Market, Hit Box, and the other hit counters are best used as a trend line. They must be viewed as independent snapshots of activity within their own realm. They are not applicable to trends across the whole internet.
Image tags only .
The counters work on an image tag pull. This excludes 10 to 20 percent of the users on the internet. This skews the data. Different search engines attract people in different manners. Altavista and Google have a higher percentage of users that run with images off.