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      A great deal is known about visiting trends to SUPERCONDUCTORS.ORG based on data compiled by a web-tracking service. Typically about 500 people drop by each day. Most are students, members of industry, or stock market investors. The highest single-day total of 21,404 visitors occurred on October 12, 2009. The highest one-week total was 45,893 during the 7 days between Oct. 10-16, 2009. (Coinciding with the announcement that superconductivity had been observed above 250 Kelvin.)

      Some people return many times, with the "Links" and "Terms" pages being bookmarked and re-visited most. Pages that get printed most often include "History", "Type 1", and "Uses". The most popular graphic is the cooper-pair animation. Below are some more statistics we thought you might find interesting.


Pages Browsed Most Often:

 #1. Uses for Superconductors
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 #2. The History of Superconductors
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 #3. Type 1 Superconductors
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 #5. Superconductor Links
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 #6. Superconductor Terminology
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Regions Visiting Most Often:

#1. U.S.
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Most Prevalent IP Sources:

#1. Educational Institutions
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#3. Government/Military
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Frequent Referers (not ranked):

  • Britannica.COM Online Encyclopedia
  • Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia
  • Annotated Physics Encyclopedia (M.I.T.)
  • Jones Telecommunications & MultiMedia Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Virgilio (Italy)
  • WordIQ Encyclopedia
  • Wikipedia (International)
  • Brainy Encyclopedia
  • The Free Dictionary



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  • NASA Electromagnetic Physics Laboratory
  • CERN (Switzerland)
  • SUPRA (Germany)
  • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • Okazaki National Research Institute (Japan)
  • Superconducting Josephson Device Laboratory (Japan)
  • KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Org. (Japan)
  • National Institute of Nuclear Physics at Genoa (Italy)



  • National Education Association (NEA)
  • Nobel Prize Museum
  • Center for the Study of Technology and Society
  • U.S. D.O.E. Office of Scientific & Tech. Information
  • Institute for Scientific Information
  • American Chemical Society
  • American Physical Society
  • American Institute of Physics
  • Engineering.COM
  • Science Magazine
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
  • USDA - Best Sites in Science
  • Great Science Sites (Georgia Department of Education)
  • FirstScience.COM
  • Science Oxygen
  • Alliance for Life-Long Learning
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  • Education World
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  • Alllearn.ORG
  • DroppingScience.COM
  • Villiers Park Educational Trust (UK)
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  • AcademicPress.COM
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  • Physical Sciences Resource Center
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  • Harcourt College Publishers
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  • TeacherLibrarian.COM
  • The Internet Foundation
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  • Science Net
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  • Learning Kingdom
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  • The Physics HyperTextBook
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  • Librarian's Index to the Internet
  • Teacher-Librarian.COM
  • Innovative Teaching/SurfAquarium
  • Space Station 42
  • Web World for Educators
  • Gary Richert's Science Websites
  • Kathi Graham's Guide to Superconductor Resources
  • ScienceMan.COM
  • HowStuffWorks.COM
  • KIDS Online Resources
  • Superstrings and Other Things
  • Journal of Bioelectromagnetic Medicine
  • Grau-Hall Scientific
  • W. H. Freeman Publishing
  • IPODayTrading.COM



  • European Network for Superconductivity - SCENET
  • THEVA (Germany)
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  • VDI-Supraleiternet (Germany)
  • ETH Materials (Switzerland)
  • BioMag Laboratory (Finland)
  • The Finnish Defence Forces webservice (Finland)
  • Conductus
  • Superconductor Technologies
  • ZT Services Thermoelectric Links
  • NMR Spectroscopy Now



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  • Lehigh University
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  • New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Maine Maritime Academy



  • Leiden University (The Netherlands)
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