There is one thing Akiba does that I do not see other large sites do: When the user selects an image or clicks a download link fro minside a post, Akiba does not spawn a new window. Instead, Akiba leaves the page and goes to the img link or the HotLink page, etc. Each time, the user then presses the BACK button to return to Akiba to select the next link and so on...
Doesn't this compound the number of hits Akiba is taking from all these callbacks?
This site should be spawning all links (links inside a Post, not from the Search page) in a new window. That way the user is not taken away from Akiba and therefore reducing all those pings.
Maybe?
(just a thought)