Making sense of web statistics is hard. We tend to rely on them only to make relative judgments about our impact, and to get a general sense of what people are doing with our collections — but sometimes their connection with the real world is clear.

On January 20th, Inauguration Day, use of the LII’s edition of the US Constitution more than doubled — an increase of more than 10,000 multipage visits, or about 50,000 page views.