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title: Harry Potter site popular
date: "2001-11-20T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1564
description: I noted the rising popularity of the Harry Potter website and poked fun at a CNet article's redundant demographic reporting, which oddly specified that males accounted for "more than 37 percent" of the audience.
keywords: [harry potter, cnet, web demographics, audience statistics, internet history]
---

The Harry Potter site is becoming [quite popular](http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-7827501.html). But what I don't get is the comment on CNet saying "Females made up 63 percent of the site's audience, **while males accounted for more than 37 percent**." Hmm... what were they expecting? Martians?