Now entering its 22nd year of covering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the staff at PewterReport.com wants to wish you a Happy New Year and thank you for helping us achieve new traffic records in 2009.

After a banner year in 2008 in which PewterReport.com welcomed 444,089 unique visitors to our site for the best Buccaneers coverage, the number of visits grew by a huge 43 percent to 635,785 unique visitors in 2009. Until last year, PewterReport.com had never had half a million visitors to its site in a single year.

The number of sheer visits grew by 32 percent from 2,559,844 in 2008 to 3,369,112 in 2009, making PewterReport.com one of the highest traffic websites on the Internet for Buccaneers fans to visit. PewterReport.com also set new page view records with 18,629,355, which was a big increase from 15,404,098 page views from 2008.

According to Alexa.com, which touts itself as the Web Information Company and is one of the leading web traffic ranking sites in the world, PewterReport.com ranked as the 14,591st most popular site (web traffic ranking) out of the millions of websites on the Internet in America on January 1, 2010.

We appreciate every one of our visitors and Pewter Report subscribers and look forward to serving you again in 2010. Please help us continue to spread the word about PewterReport.com. We have some very exciting plans that we will be unveiling in the months ahead, including a brand new PewterReport.com web site prior to training camp with lots of new features.

PewterReport.com has become a powerhouse for breaking Bucs news, analysis, commentary, message board conversation, game coverage and offseason coverage of the Buccaneers with unparalleled Bucs draft and free agency coverage – all thanks to you!