Nonetheless, they were selling medical cards. No respectable site counts their traffic by hits. A hit is counted not by every visit to a website but by every access to the webserver. In other words a page with 10 graphics on it would count as 11 hits each time it was loaded. 10 hits for the graphics and 1 for the .html itself.
Hits are meaningless and are only used by sites trying to inflate their numbers.
Today I was informed that the network mentioned above has posted private e-mail from yet another network that was trying to poach from them. They have an editorial posted on how dastardly this other network is. I laughed out loud. They are complaining about someone doing the same thing that they have based their network policy on. Sometimes you just have to smile.