Evidence of growing internet usage in the crane industry around the globe can be found in ConnectingCranes traffic, which doubled year-on-year in the first six months of 2002 to more than a million hits and nearly a quarter of a million page impressions.

The exact number of hits between 1 January and 30 June 2002 was 1,079,832, compared with 526, 836 hits during the first six months of 2001. June itself was the busiest month for hits, with 308,004.

The number of page impressions, regarded by the online industry as a much better and more meaningful measure of traffic, was 223,472 for the first six months of 2002, compared with 133,070 in the first six months of 2001. Peak month for page impressions was April when it reached 49,270. The second busiest month for page impressions was June, with 42,724.

Further information about ConnectingCranes.com and how it can help your business is available from Dave Rudd drudd@wilmington.co.uk