Here's what we did. We invited firms headquartered in Minnesota as well as firms headquartered in other states that maintain offices in Minnesota to participate. We asked firms to voluntarily report overall site page views for April. We also asked how many page views their home page URL received. And we also asked firms to report page view numbers for up to three additional frequently visited interior pages.
Rankings reflect worldwide traffic.
Some participating firms have offices in other states and countries. Some activity may be generated by firms' personnel using their own sites. No attempts have been made to adjust for these factors. The survey is dependent on accurate self-reporting by firms of information reported from their web server logs. On those occasions when we asked for clarifications, participating firms were highly cooperative.