Checkin’ The Stats - March 2006

Looking back at March, it was a crazy month. I had a lot of new visitors, and there was a lot to blog about. Let’s take a look at the stats for March.

The top 10 referring blogs (other than Technorati) for March were:

Real Clear Politics
Expose The Left
Musing Minds
rightwingsparkle
Seeking My Sanity
The Soda Stand
Radio Blogger
Insignificant Thoughts
Saving Charlotte
All Sewn Up

I got a ton of hits from Slate about a post on bird flu hype, and I still got a lot of hits from Digg, on the Hamachi As A Service post.

The top 10 search terms that brought people here in March were:

dana reeve (may she rest in peace)
free passwords (haha gotcha again!)
mary winkler (charged with killing her husband)
tanya kach (welcome back)
hamachi service (highly recommended)
rotten stuff (gee, thanks)
kathleen tomarken (may she rest in peace)
natasha browne (missing, or not, then found)
magnetix death (more serious stuff)
britney spears (yikes)

The top three search engines sending traffic my way were Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

The busiest day of the week was Thursday, and the busiest time of day was 10:00am EST, and the busiest day of the month was the 30th.

Internet Explorer usage rose to 72% from 70%, but I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer any day.

The top ten domains (after .com, .net, and .edu domains) for March were:

China (.cn)
Australia (.au)
European Union (.eu)
Switzerland (.ch)
Netherlands (.nl)
Japan (.jp)
South Korea (.kr)
Poland (.pl)
Canada (.ca)
Hong Kong (.hk)

The top ten individual pages people came to see (excluding the main index and rss feeds) were:

Dana Reeve Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
Free Passwords
Wordpress 2.0
Beth Holloway Twitty Flies Home
Running Hamachi As A Service
Kurt Busch Wins At Bristol
Beth Holloway Twitty Sums It Up
Mary Winkler A Suspect In Her Husband’s Death
The Brightest Bulb
Dana Reeve Dies

The top ten category pages were:

National News
Rotten Stuff
Obituaries
Amber Alert
Natalee Holloway
Personalized
Missing Persons
World News
Mumbo Jumbo
My Opinions

And now for the numbers.

I had 13,943 unique visitors, over 127,719 page views, over 643,868 hits, the average stay on the site was under 2 minutes, and you helped me burn 10.61 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!