For the past three years, I've been keeping record of raw page requests from the Boosterrific.com server. (You'll note a break in the graph around Oct 2012; that was when the forum was being remotely spammed by bots. I have therefore eliminated that data.)

The high water mark was November 2011. The coming of the New 52 sure did generate a lot of buzz, didn't it?

This second graph is what Google says the Boosterrific.com page hits are. Google only tracks hits that activate the embedded Javascript code, so it completely ignores hits from bots and spiders, some mobile devices, and any pages which do have not the Google Analytics code embedded (which includes some of the deeper pages in the site, including the house ads and some forum pages). The numbers from Google are, understandably, considerably lower.

What a big difference automated spiders make! Note that so far as Google is concerned, the apex was in Spring 2011, when the coming of the New 52 was announced. So as the humans departed, robots took over? That sounds about right.

Many thanks to everyone who has visited the site in the past 3 years, especially those of you with eyeballs and fingers.

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panel from 52 Week 52

--Boosterrific Blog! Seriously, the blog insert script is now rewritten and fully functional. (All my other scripts are still broken, but I figured everyone would appreciate it if I started with the important one.) New posts resume, well, today.

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The good news is that the scripts have been updated on the public side of Boosterrific.com. I think that everything is working again now. (I trust you'll let me know at webmaster at Boosterrific.com if I'm wrong.)

The bad news is that the back-end scripts are really, really broken. They had been cobbled together piecemeal over time, and sorting out that knot of tangled strings has proven really frustrating. So I decided late last night that I'll be rebuilding them from scratch.

I warn that site updates may be few and far between until I solve these problems. I hope that you will be patient with me in the meantime.

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Attention Geoff Johns: when you bring Booster Gold back in Justice League of America, please fix his costume.

Last week's poll question: ( votes)

Yes, we're running the poll a day early today so that everyone can enjoy their Thanksgiving turkey and football tomorrow. And because of the ongoing maintenance here at Boosterrific.com, there will be no new poll this week. Polling will resume next week, assuming everything gets working again. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience.

P.S. Comments are currently broken. I'll get them fixed as soon as possible (probably later today).

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A brief word of warning: there's a much needed script upgrade going on behind the scenes here at Boosterrific.com this Thanksgiving holiday week, and it may result in some odd behavior. In fact, things just might stop working altogether.

Panel from Flash Annual #3. (No Booster Gold appearance.)

So if you find something wrong, don't panic. And if it doesn't get better after a time, drop a line to webmaster at Boosterrific.com, and I'll look into it. Thank you in advance for your patience.

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