Hmmm. My impression is there’s a lot of interest in the case of Mike Miske, and the current trial, now in its third month since opening statements kicked off the trial on January 22.

So I checked the statistics here, and what I saw confirms that impression.

I compared the number of page views and unique visitors in November and December, to the numbers in January and February, as the trial got underway.

There were an average of 30,490 page views per month in November/December.

That jumped to an average of 58,537 in January and February.

That’s a 92% increase!

Average visitors also increased, although not as dramatically.

The average number of unique visitor per month jumped from 14,464 to 19,263, an increase of 33%.

Then in March, the number of page views jumped again, although the number of unique visitors was down.

These are “almost” final numbers for the month as of about 5 a.m. on Sunday, March 31.

March page views: 67,919, up about 16% from the January/February average.

March visitors: 18,166, down 5.7% from the past two month average, but still well above the November-December average.

It’s pretty clear that most of those 18,000+ visitors are not regulars.

My guess is that there’s a relatively small core of regular readers who check in regularly to see what’s happening, and who make up most of those page views. My guess is that there are probably 1,000 or so people who come back regularly, every day or two, and account for the bulk of the monthly page views. The rest of the visitors probably only stop by once or twice in the course of the month.

So iLind.net is not exactly “mass media,” but I consider it an indication of a respectable readership, especially with the paucity of other news about the Miske trial.