diff --git a/api/services/stats/haxPsuUsage.js b/api/services/stats/haxPsuUsage.js
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+import { stdResponse, invalidRequest } from "../../../utilities/requestHelpers.js";
+
+// vercel to slice our data into views that we can remix at will
+export default async function handler(req, res) {
+  // cache for a day
+  let options = {
+    cache: 60 * 60 * 24
+  };
+  // process.env.HAX_STATS has our stats compiled by our staging system
+  let data = await fetch(process.env.HAX_STATS).then((res) => {
+    return res.json()
+  });
+  if (data) {
+    res = stdResponse(res, data || [], options);
+  }
+  else {
+    res = invalidRequest(res, 'data from stats failed to load');
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/stats.sh b/scripts/stats.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# script for stat generation for iam
+# Initialize variables to hold total counts
+total_items=0
+site_counts=()
+# Initialize variables to hold folder counts and site counts
+site_count=0
+user_count=0
+
+# Loop through user directories to calculate valid users and sites
+for user_dir in /var/www/iam/users/*; do
+    if [ -d "$user_dir/sites" ]; then
+        user_folders=$(find $user_dir/sites/* -maxdepth 0 -type d ! -type l 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+        if [ "$user_folders" -gt 1 ]; then
+            user_name="$(basename "$user_dir")"
+            # Exclude certain users from the count
+            if [ "$user_name" != "bto108" ] && [ "$user_name" != "bto5009" ] && [ "$user_name" != "elms" ]; then
+                user_count=$((user_count + 1))
+                # Find all site.json files and process them
+                for sitepath in $(find $user_dir/sites/* -maxdepth 0 -type d ! -type l 2>/dev/null); do
+                    # sites.json sanity
+                    if [ -f "$sitepath/site.json" ]; then
+                        site_name="$(basename "$sitepath")"
+                        site_items=$(jq '.items | length' "$sitepath/site.json")  # Using jq to parse JSON and count items
+                        # only count things that have more than 5 pages
+                        # ignore these things from a demo early on
+                        if [ "$site_name" != "covid19" ] && [ "$site_name" != "test" ] && [ "$site_name" != "test3" ] && [ "$site_name" != "testing" ] && [ "$site_name" != "coronavirus" ] && [ "$site_name" != "covid-19" ]; then
+                            if [ $site_items -gt 5 ]; then
+                                site_count=$((site_count + 1))
+                                total_items=$(($total_items + site_items))
+                                siteshort="$user_name/$site_name"
+                                site_counts+=("$siteshort:$site_items")
+                            fi
+                        fi
+                    fi
+                done
+            fi
+        fi
+    fi
+done
+
+IFS=$'\n' sorted_site_counts=($(sort -k2 -nr <<<"${site_counts[*]}"))
+unset IFS
+
+# Construct JSON object for stats
+stats_json="{ \"overall\": { \"site_count\": $site_count, \"user_count\": $user_count, \"total_pages\": $total_items }, \"site_counts\": {"
+json_blob=""
+
+# Construct JSON entries for individual site counts
+for entry in "${sorted_site_counts[@]}"; do
+    site_file="${entry%:*}"
+    items_count="${entry#*:}"
+    stats_json+=" \"$site_file\": $items_count,"
+done
+
+stats_json="${stats_json%,}"  # Remove trailing comma
+stats_json+=" } }"  # Close JSON object
+
+# Write stats JSON to file
+echo "$stats_json" > /var/www/html/stats/stats.json
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