<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Big Yi appears to have caused a big jump in the number of visitors to this newspaper's Web site after the Milwaukee Bucks chose him in the National Basketball Association draft. Yi Jianlian, the 7-foot power forward with an allergy to Milwaukee, is from the city of Shenzhen, population 17 million in the metro area, in the province of Guangdong, population 74.7 million, in China, population 1.3 billion. The system that monitors Web traffic to www.jsonline.com, the newspaper's Web site, can count the number of visitors to the site and their country of origin. It does not count the page views, the number of pages each visitor makes on the site. On Thursday there were 310 Chinese visits to the site, making China the seventh-ranked country among all visitors there. But China is 13 hours ahead of Milwaukee time. So when Commissioner David Stern announced Yi's selection by the Bucks at 7:03 p.m. in Milwaukee, it was 8:03 a.m. Friday in China. That day, the traffic from China was four times what it was the previous day. On Friday, there were 1,270 visitors from China, No. 3 behind the United States and Canada. On Saturday, there were 789 visitors, No. 4 behind the U.S., Canada and Ireland. (Ireland? Irish Fest doesn't arrive until Aug. 16.) On Sunday the number was 643, with China fifth on the list. For all of June there were 5,841 visitors from China to jsonline.com, No. 7 among all countries, behind the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Germany. By comparison, for all of May, China ranked No. 13 on the countries list with a total of 3,891 daily unique visitors. A typical day in May had 115 visitors.</div> Source: JSOnline