May 2005:
MERCI…

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got to say thank you to you all.

When we started, none of the three of us had a clue if we were going to last a week, a month, we just improvised a site, a name, a logo…

And here we are, six months later, we’ve reached some extraordinary figures we never thought we would reach, and certainly not so quickly.

In April, we recorded 804,000 page impressions and 193,000 unique visits, with a peak of 30,000 page impressions per day during tournaments, and our coverage now reaches over 60 countries…

(You'll sometimes hear people quoting 'hits', which gives big numbers but is not considered a good measure, so we won't usually quote these, but just so you know our 'hits' for April were around 8.5 million).

Whoah!

We actually had to check the figures, making sure that we didn’t make any mistakes, it seemed too good to be true. But no, that’s the right figures, and sorry, but we are mighty proud!

And your response to our survey is just as impressive, not to mention the kindness of your comments. Overall, you seem to appreciate most particularly the speed of updates and the quality of tournament coverage we provide.

And you've given us some great ideas for new things we can add too, some of which you'll be seeing very shortly.

So, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for reading us…
Makes it all worthwhile…

Framboise, Steve & Linda