The numbers
People buy tickets here. So do their agents.
Every showtime on this site carries a direct door to the box office, and every crossing is counted. These figures update live from the same ledger the paper runs on — counting since 2026-08-12.
24,283
crossings recorded at this site’s ticket doors
4,277
of those: verified ticket clicks handed to California, Florida and Hawaii box offices
47
a day, on average, and holding
1%
arrive from an assistant a reader asked — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — sent here for showtimes they can trust
397
theaters that have received a reader
Correction. Programs that click ticket links were counted as readers. We removed them. The count above replaces 55,131 clicks published until Sept 18 2026, and 6,117 published until Oct 25.
Clicks count door-crossings, not sales; the till stays with the theater. Verified daily against each theater’s own box office — see /accuracy.
Theaters can request their own ledger: info@scenef.com.
How we count: one click per crossing through a ticket link; two hits on one link within five seconds are one. A referral is a person, or an assistant a person asked. Fifty clicks an hour across twelve theaters, ten in a row seconds apart, a ten-minute clock, or most of the board in a day is a program, not a reader. And no browser counts more than three clicks for each visit we recorded from that browser. Crawlers have crossed 8,717 times and are counted separately. Our own checks are excluded. Per-venue figures go to that venue only.
August, before the door recorded the browser, is counted from the visit record alone — between 340 and 800 of these clicks. Its first week has no visit record and is not counted.
The full count: 24,283 crossings — 4,277 referrals, 8,717 crawlers, 3 repeat hits within five seconds, 6,175 with no recorded visit to vouch for them, 2,384 that reached our “showtime moved” notice, 2,727 we could not match to a theater, and 0 of our own. The seven add up to the total.