Checkin The Stats – August 2008

What the heck happened to August. One day I am sitting here minding my own business and the next thing you know, September comes and slaps me upside the head. What's up with that?

Anyway, let's take a look at the stats for August.

The top 10 referring sites (other than Twitter) for August were:

Musing Minds
Sister Toldjah
Shadowscope
Kathy's Tech Blog
Right Wing News
Flopping Aces
Insignificant Thoughts
Insomnomaniac
The Soda Stand
All Sewn Up

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

hamachi service (highly recommended)
vincent anania (may he rest in peace)
slobokan (did you really need to search for me, if you knew who I was?)
warren savage (anchor turned junkie, hopefully clean)
liquid cancer (old post, still very important)
shasta groene (hope she's doing okay)
margaret hassan video (still?)
skip carey (may he rest in peace)
my wife naked (yeah, you wish)
brown widow spiders (where?)

Notable searches for the month:

difference between democrat and republican (like the sun and the moon)
movers New York (what's up with that one?)

The top three search engines sending traffic my way were Google, Windows Live, Yahoo!

The busiest day of the week was Wednesday. The busiest time of day was 5:00pm EDT, and the busiest day of the month was the 26th.

Internet Explorer usage dropped from 42.6% to 39.1%, which sets the all time record low for Internet Explorer usage. I still recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer.

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

Norway (.no)
Great Britain (.gb)
Australia (.au)
Hong Kong (.hk)
European Union (.eu)
Netherlands (.nl)
China (.cn) *Still not banned I guess
Canada (.ca)
Taiwan (.tw)
Argentina (.ar)

Honorable Mention: Israel (.il) which placed 12th this month.

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

Running Hamachi As A Service
Akismet Anti-Spam Module for Drupal and phpBB
Test Pattern #64: Day 5*
Sandy Allen Dies*
Test Pattern #59: Don't Go*
Checkin The Stats – July 2008*
I Have Seabass Offsets If Anyone Needs Them
My Wife Loves Getting Naked
Test Pattern #69: The American Energy Act*
The Vacationing Barack Obama*

* Six of these posts were written during August. The record for the most posts in the top 10 from the most recent month was 8, set in January of 2008.

The top ten category pages were:

Personalized
Obituaries
Featured
My Opinions
Test Pattern
Bloggage
Vituperate
Comical Schtuff
Hebetude
FYI

And now for the numbers.

I had another successful month of blocking a specific block of spammers that has done nothing but cause problems.

I had 8,794 unique visitors, over 314,103 page views, over 467,260 hits, the average stay on the site was 2-5 minutes, and you helped me burn 15.28 GB of bandwidth.

Thanks for stopping by!