In the past week, we have served 4.4 million searches during 476 thousand Visits by 239 thousand Visitors, resulting in 18.7 million Page Impressions.

Since launch that brings us to: 15.8 million searches, 2.34 million Visits, 1.26 million Visitors, 70.7 million Page Impressions.

It seems longer (!), but the 1911 Census has now been live for a week.

In that time we have served 52 million Page Impressions and 11.4 million searches during 1.85 million Visits by 1.1 million Visitors from around the globe.

As the initial rush of traffic dies down, we are starting to release new features on to the site. Stay tuned to this blog for more news.

The first day (midnight to midnight) of the release of the 1911 Census went very well - we served up 3.4 million searches and 17.4million pages to 645,000 visitors who made 827,000 visits between them .

Technically the site held up exceptionally well - we used only a fraction of the available capacity available on the servers, meaning that the site reponse was fast with few errors all day: it remains so into the second day.

The first half-day of the census launch is going well so far.

As of 1pm, family historians have performed 925,000 searches on the 1911 Census website.