Key to LANIC's continued success has been an ever-growing and faithful user base. The number of accesses to our Internet-based information resources has grown consistently since we launched our first public server in 1992, and currently averages over 5.4 million hits per month.
Other useful statistics include:
- According to research conducted in January 2009, there are over 131,500 inbound links to pages on LANIC from Web Sites around the world.
- Our subject directory services began in 1992 when we launched the first Latin American directory on the Internet via Gopher. Currently, LANIC's ever-expanding directory contains pages for 41 countries and 81 subjects.
- These directory pages contain more than 12,000 unique URL's that point to Web sites and pages or other Internet-based content. All resources on LANIC have been carefully evaluated and catalogued by LANIC's editorial staff.
- LANIC also hosts large amounts of content from Latin America: as of October 2008, the Yahoo! search index contained over 125,000 URLs from the LANIC Web site.
- The LANIC Home Page has a Google PageRank of 8. A Google search for most of the Latin American subjects we cover will usually return the corresponding LANIC subject page in the top ten results; in many cases, the first result is a LANIC page.
- LANIC hosts extensive digital content on Latin America through its Etext Collection, including thousands of full text books, journals, speeches, and research papers. Included are the full text of over 2,000 speeches by Fidel Castro; over 75,000 pages of Presidential Messages from Argentina and Mexico; and hundreds of papers on Latin American topics presented at conferences around the world.
- We receive, and answer or address, an average of over 300 e-mail inquiries, comments, or suggestions per month.