Use of the PALNI Online Catalog hit record levels in October, 2006. Across all PALNI library OPACs, 9,882 unique visitors connected to the PALNI OPAC a total of 30,309 times during the month of October. Overall, these users retrieved 762,318 web pages and generated 1,325,619 hits against the OPAC web server during the month. Over the past 6 months, users have visited PALNI's OPAC web sites almost 120,000 times and displayed more than 2.8 million web pages

For the month of October, 2006, the PALNI OPAC was searched 154,116 times by keyword. The following chart shows the number of keyword searches for each library for the month of October.

The OPAC performance "fixes" we implemented in September are continuing to deliver good OPAC keyword search performance even with the increased web traffic that we are now seeing. Keyword search response time averaged 1.16 seconds across all libraries. The following chart shows average keyword search response times for each library during the month of October.