Douglas Comparing site visitors to readership is surely not valid. A better analogy is people who go into a bookshop and pick your book off the shelf - maybe they read it, maybe they buy it - and maybe they just put it down again. And I guess you get a lot ofd hits because you've been there a long time - you appear high in all the search engines, lots of sites have you linked etc etc. By the way, how do you collect your stats, and what stats do you collect? Ted Slade http://www.poetrykit.org/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%