Because they have yet to pass national legislation protecting the chiropractic profession, Japanese DCs are in a similar situation that U.S. DCs faced. We were fortunate enough to be able to pass chiropractic licensure state by state. The DCs in Japan must accomplish this nationally, which has proved to be an extremely difficult task. And in spite of their efforts, Japanese DCs are currently faced with two chiropractic professions.
2,500 Visitors to ChiroWeb Every Week!
Every week, more than 2,500 people visit ChiroWeb (that's over 130,000 visits per year). Most visitors are looking for DCs in their area; others are chiropractors checking out the DC Archives, Chiropractic Calendar, various other services, or just keeping in contact with other DCs.
When assessing activity at a website, the terms "visit" and "hit" must be differentiated. If you go to a website, whether you stay one minute or one hour, or whether you click on one page or multiple pages on that website, it counts as one visit.
A hit, however, measures file requests made in the logbook of a server computer. Hits can be misleading. For instance, if you view a page that has three graphic images, and click on each image, you register four "hits": one for going to that web page, and one for each image.
So while ChiroWeb logs approximately 25,000 hits each week, we feel that "visits" are more significant indications of traffic on a website. The number of visits to ChiroWeb tells us how many people are looking for chiropractic information on our site.