This Site Analytics report shows that Hawai`i Free Press has surpassed 1 million hits a month every month this year.

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All those readers are spending more time on Hawai'i Free Press than some other Hawaii news sites.  For part of July, readers averaged over 15 minutes on HawaiiFreePress.com.  This is a measure of how much time readers are putting into reading the articles.  In this "Time on Site" chart, HawaiiFreePress.com is represented by a blue line which is easy to spot because it is on top:

And here are the counts for visitors and unique visitors. Almost all of these hits come from Hawai’i. About 3% of the state population reads Hawai’i Free Press each month. 

Date	Unique Visitors	Visitors
August, 2010	28,683	48,574
September, 2010	34,053	60,619
October, 2010	41,577	73,526
November, 2010	34,457	64,859
December, 2010	39,545	73,093
January, 2011	35,969	70,383
February, 2011	35,557	69,596
March, 2011	46,039	80,397
April, 2011	39,687	69,015
May, 2011	41,200	72,679
June, 2011	40,269	69,924
July, 2011	43,417	78,530
Total	460,453	831,195

The 12 month average of these "uniques" is up 60% from the average for last year (with Drudge factored out).  In the period ending August, 2010 "unique visitors" ran between 16,000 and 28,000 with 111,000 in December, 2009 when the Drudge Report linked to one of our articles.

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September, 2010: Hawai`i Free Press readership grows 74%