How does the Super Bowl affect web traffic? The picture below shows web traffic by hour on our traffic court website. The blue line is for this Sunday and the green line is for the previous Sunday. Traffic did drop noticeably during the game, but not by nearly as much as I would have expected. It was about a 20-30% drop. I checked last year and the numbers were similar.

Our Traffic Court website continues rapid growth. The image below shows we had nearly 300,000 visits in January, compared to 170,000 the year before. That is 74% growth. Going back to January of 2007, we had 19,000 visits.Other milestones in January include 70,000 visits in a week. That happened twice. We had only done 60,000 once before. We also had our first day with over 14,000 visits and that

Our Town-Court.com website is growing nicely. The image below shows the number of visitors from January 1, 2006 (shortly after we started measuring) to the present. We have helped nearly 4 million different people find information about traffic courts, with over 10 million pageviews.September is the biggest month yet, with over 240,000 visits by over 210,000 different people (some visit more than

A few new milestones for our traffic court directory:In the last 31 days (4/12 to 5/12), we had just over 200,000 visits. There were 175,000 unique visitors in that time (the "unique" roughly means different people).And we now have over 10,000 courts on the site. Actually just over 10,100.

Google Analytics defaults to the last 31 days. We just hit new records for town-court.com - over 190,000 visits and over 400,000 pageviews in 31 days. To put it another way, we are now on a pace to help over 2 million people a year.

Noticed an interesting set of statistics about our directory of traffic lawyers just now. The image below shows the number of visits to the various pages within the directory. Click on the image to enlarge it. The stats are for the last October 21 to November 20.Most interesting numbers:a. 11,424 total pageviews and 7737 unique pageviews. As a rough guess, it looks like maybe 5000 people a month

Most of our speeding ticket cases are straightforward. We get hired, get all the information in order, contact the court and prosecutor, negotiate a reduction to something less, and let the client know the result and what they need to do. There's more to it than that, but that's the essence.Every once in a while we get a client who needs a trial. This story is an example of that.I'll call her

Not sure why, but it seems like a lot of people are searching for the San Bernardino Superior Court. Maybe it's because of the corruption scandal in the Assessor's office: LA Times story. But we think they just write a lot of speeding tickets in the traffic court. Maybe that's a revenue measure?For more info on the topic, see California speeding tickets and California Traffic Courts.

New milestones for our traffic court website. As shown below, over 150K visits in the last 31 days, and over 130K unique visitors.For those unfamiliar with our stats, the peaks are Mondays and the valleys are weekends.Moreno Valley Court in California is the busiest on the site, with over 1400 pageviews in that 31-day stretch. They must write a lot of tickets out there.I just looked back and we

So here's the latest with our directory of traffic courts. For starters, the directory now covers all or part of 19 states, the District of Columbia, and even a few in Toronto. We've completed Illinois and North Carolina, and are almost done with Maryland and Georgia. We're making progress on Texas again (it's a really big state). We're now over 140,000 visits and 125K unique users a month. The

Below is a great TV expose on a dubious Florida traffic court practice.

I got motivated today and added the State of Delaware to our traffic court directory. There are only three counties with a total of about maybe 20 courts. If you get a ticket in Delaware, check out the Delaware county courts.

Our traffic court site has cleared some new hurdles. We not only surpassed 100,000 visits in 31 days. We've hit 130K visits, and over 114,000 unique visitors. We also cleared 300,000 pageviews. These numbers are one day short of a peak -- going a day forward we'll lose a Sunday and pick up a Wednesday - an extra 5K visits and 12K pageviews.Oh, and we're doing well on Alexa too:So according to

The Traffic and Criminal Lawyers Club is up and running. We are approaching 30 members. I've put together a draft user guide and posted it on my firm website: Traffic/Criminal Lawyer Club User Guide. This is a large file in "pdf" format. It describes how to join and how to use the club features.I will be updating the guide over the next few weeks.

Our traffic lawyer club is up and running. This is a feature on our traffic court website.Membership in the club is for lawyers only and it's FREE. We are going to verify that those who register are lawyers.If you're a lawyer who handles some cases in traffic court or local criminal court, please register on the site.There are currently 14 states in the directory, plus DC. A couple of the states

Apparently Britney Spears had her day in Court recently. 10 of 12 jurors felt she was not guilty of driving with a suspended license, so she's neither guilty nor "not guilty." As best we can tell, the case was heard in Van Nuys Traffic Court.

Our traffic court site continues to grow. The latest news is that we broke 200,000 page views in the last 31 days. Monday was the biggest day in the site's history, with over 4600 visits and over 4300 "unique" visitors. Tuesday was over 4200 visits, making it the strongest regular Tuesday ever (excluding Tuesdays after a 3-day weekend), and the 4th biggest day in site history, just a nick behind

Check out this story about traffic court in England. So different from what we see here.

Note: For help, please check out our New York Traffic Lawyer page.Change is brewing in the surcharges for various offenses in the NY traffic courts and criminal courts. I've posted a portion of the schedule below that's most relevant to what we do, in the usual traffic ticket and DWI cases, will discuss these massive tax increases further below. I should also note that this schedule is for town

I got motivated and entered all the traffic courts in Vermont in the past week or so. Not too many of them. Vermont has fourteen counties. Each county has two courts -- District Court and Superior Court. As one might think, District Court handles lesser offenses while Superior Court handles the more serious ones. But in an interesting twist, Vermont Superior Court does the small claims.There is