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SURFLINE.COM DELIVERS 12,000,000+ PAGES IN ONE MONTH
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - October 23, 2002 - Surfline Inc. announced today that its world-renowned website, Surfline.com, reached a new milestone last month � delivering 12,741,016 page views during September. Despite the record-setting traffic, Surfline.com provided reliable, fast and consistent service to the 917,289 unique users who visited the site.
By serving more than 12 million pages in one month, Surfline confirmed its position as the world�s leading online destination for surf, beach and marine information. �This data points to the strength and quality of Surfline's content and to the powerful relationship we have developed with our visitors," said Sean Collins, President and Chief Forecaster for Surfline, Inc.
Not only was this the busiest month ever for Surfline.com, it also marks the first time that the site delivered over a half million pages in a single day. On September 9, Surfline users viewed 652,758 pages of original Surfline content.
The October statistics were based on a report issued by Akami, a leading provider of site analysis software. Additional highlights from the September report include: - Users spent an average of 4 minutes, 58 seconds during each visit;
- The average page views per unique visitor was 13.9.
Surfline�s traffic has grown on the strength of its unique, evergreen content, which was recognized and awarded a Webby last year by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Surfline.com, along with its online retail partner Swell (and its online content partner Surfing Magazine), was named the Internet�s best sports website beating out such high-profile sites as ESPN.com and CBS.sportsline.com.
About Surfline.com
Surfline is the Internet's definitive surf-related website, delivering rich content -- news, information and entertainment -- with extensive community applications and a host of live webcams from around the globe. Surfline brings together surfing's premier surf report and forecast talent, along with award-winning writers and photographers to produce a website of unparalleled quality aimed at the core of the sport, yet with appeal to the broader lifestyle audience.
About Surfline Inc.
Surfline was founded in 1985 as the world's first surf report and forecast service. Its reports and forecasts are available today on almost every medium imaginable, including print, phone, fax, wireless web and the Internet. This fall, Surfline introduced LOLA, the revolutionary forecasting tool that combines Wavewatch III algorithms with empirical data gained from over 30 years of surf and weather analysis. Operating in real-time 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and providing near-shore wave animation models, spectral buoy analysis, wind forecast charts and much more, LOLA's debut has signaled a new era in the science of surf forecasting.
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