Checkin’ The Stats!

Did January fly by or what? It’s already time for stats…

I am sitting here writing this post as the ice is falling outside. According to the expert weathermen, we are 12 miles outside of the “winter weather” area. Yeah, uh huh. Let’s see what happened in January.

The top 10 referring blogs (other than Technorati and Blog Explosion) for January were:

Insignificant Thoughts
The Soda Stand
Flopping Aces
NEI Nuclear Notes
Musing Minds
Publius Rendezvous
Blog For Books
Electric Venom
Right Wing News
Sugar Ray Dodge

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

nikki bacharach (may she rest in peace)
free passwords (haha gotcha again!)
william ownby (glad he is safe at home)
frank campanella (may he rest in peace)
hamachi service (highly recommended)
warren savage (anchor turned junkie)
julia lynn turner (convicted anti-freeze killer)
benny parsons (may he rest in peace)
joel roux-neville (may she rest in peace)
dora mcdonald (may she rest in peace)

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

The busiest day of the week was Thursday. The busiest time of day was 3:00pm EST, and the busiest day of the month was the 8th.

Internet Explorer usage sat at 65%. The record low was still 52% in August of 2006. I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer.

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

Germany (.de)
European Union (.eu)
Netherlands (.nl)
China (.cn)
Australia (.au)
Canada (.ca)
Switzerland (.ch)
South Korea (.kr)
Singapore (.sg)
Great Britain (.gb)

*Due to spammers, Russia (.ru) was disqualified this month.

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

Running Hamachi As A Service
Nikki Bacharach Dies
Free Passwords
My God Is An Awesome God
Two Years Teflon Free
William Ownby
Joel-Roux Neville Dies
Frank Campanella Dies
Coretta Scott King, A Dignified Soul
Benny Parsons Hospitalized

The top ten category pages were:

Obituaries
FYI
Randomized
Rotten Stuff
Local Yokel
Topical Events
National News
Amber Alert
World News
Comical Schtuff

And now for the numbers.

I had 18,658 unique visitors, over 546,960 page views, over 1,211,084 hits, the average stay on the site was 1-2 minutes, and you helped me burn 33.18 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!