Visitors

The number of visits* to Nobelprize.org has increased dramatically since the web site was launched in 1995, from about 12,000 in 1995-96 to 35 million in 2007.

The educational section had 5.9 million visits during 2007.

Visitors come from all over the world, but mainly from educational sectors in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan.

*Visits: A visit is a series of actions that begins when a visitor views his/her first page from the server, and ends when the visitor leaves the site or remains idle beyond the idle-time limit. A visitor is defined as a unique IP address. However, many visits use proxy servers. All users situated at the same university, company, or ISP using a proxy server will appear to have the same IP address and is counted as one visitor. The number of visits is therefore underestimated.