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Looking Back Seven Years...

Traffic Stabilization of Kamat's Potpourri For the first time in seven years, in September 2002, the month-to-month traffic for Kamat.com is going to be less than its previous month. This might indicate that our viewership has stabilized at around 1.6 million page views per month. Update: The viewership exceeded 2 million pages in April 2003. (May 1, 2003) I think the traffic growth from month to month consistently for seven years is quite phenomenal. Unlike most sites, whenever there was a spike in traffic, the increased level has continued to the next month. FYI: The money we've spent on traffic generation is zero. Most people find out about the site via a search in Google, and subsequently type our URL for repeat visits. About 65% of readers surveyed (about 500 of them, take it anonymously -- it will help us find new advertisers) said that they have book-marked the site. Chronology of Kamat.com Started as a home page on AOL in Nov. 1995. The first attraction was tour of India in photo stubs. Registered the domain Kamat.com at the behest of B.G.Mahesh in Aug 1996. Moved to a new location at IAOL in Nov 1997. Added a search engine. Popularity jumps to over hundred accesses/day. Due to delay in publishing of the KalaRanga CD-ROM, started to publish the contents online. Accesses jump to over a thousand a day. (June 1998) We add a Kannada Section (Aug. 98) in Kannada Script, by popular request. The popularity of the site increases to over 2000 page views/day (October '98) and we decide to keep the site free of advertisements. A review by the Arts and Letters daily, more listings at Yahoo! and a Editor's Pick Listing at Bharat-Ek-Khoj propel daily readership to above 5000. Thank you viewers and reviewers! (January 1999) CHIP magazine names Kamat's Potpourri as one of India's best websites. (February 1999) Moved to new hosting provider HostPro, and added PICTURESeach Kamat's Potpourri's monthly viewership exceeds 150,000 (February 2000) after the popularity of our Rangoli section Added banner advertising (Sept. 2000) Number of pictures in Kamat House of Pictures crosses 4000 (February 2001) Monthly page views cross a million (June 2001) Number  of pictures in Kamat House of Pictures crosses 6000 (October 2001) The capacity of the server is increased ten times (December 2001) due to increased traffic and content Number of pictures in Kamat House of Pictures crosses 7000 (May 2002) Rediff, Wired, BBC, ScriptingNews link to Kamat.com registering our highest traffic -- 1.65 million page views during the month (August 2002) See Also: • The Sixth Anniversary Blog (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Friday, September 20, 2002 Last Modified: 5/30/2003

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