Category Archives: Traffic Reports

I managed to skip doing a traffic report last month amidst all the excitement. August and September were both pretty busy around here, with 56,000 hits in August and over 79,000 in September, which is a new alltime high around … Continue reading → Continue reading →

July had a slight downtick to 49,000 visitors (August has already exceeded this). I continue to think that’s just randomness, mostly due to fluctuations in search engine referrals. The holiday week is also a slow time. July featured the appearance … Continue reading → Continue reading →

June was a slightly slower month, with about 50,000 total hits. I’m never sure what causes the monthly variations in traffic, though for the most part I suspect it’s search engine referrals. I thought June would herald some summer doldrums, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

May was my busiest month of the year so far, with about 57,000 hits. Links from Atrios and Crooked Timber helped boost the numbers a bit, but things were pretty steady overall. Every once in awhile, I look at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The hit count was about 52,000 for the month of April, with fairly steady daily totals throughout. I can’t actually remember anything exciting from a traffic-watching point of view for the month, so I’ll take this opportunity to say thank … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I had nearly 55,000 hits in March, putting it just a notch below January’s total. The scourge of referral log spam continues, but I suppose I’m getting a little amount of perverse satisfaction in knowing that the clowns who are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Had about 47,000 hits in February. The unfortunate trend of spam referrals continues. Hard to say how much effect that has on my traffic numbers – I’m not even sure I want to know. Whatever effect it does have, I’m … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I bounced back in a big way in January with a smidgeon over 55,000 hits, thanks in large part to a gazillion search engine referrals for Ashley McElhiney. At a guess, I’d say I’d have had a more modest 45,000 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not too surprisingly, I saw a big dropoff in traffic from November to December. About 41,000 visitors came by last month, making it the second slowest month of the year, and that was after a late referral from Atrios. Everything … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Even with the lull of the Thanksgiving holiday, November was my busiest month ever, with over 63,000 hits. I had a similar buildup, though with much smaller numbers, around the 2002 elections. I do expect things to drop off – … Continue reading → Continue reading →

October was my busiest month ever, with about 58,000 visits. Obviously, the election drove a lot of that. Things have slacked off a bit in November, but not all that much so far. We’ll see what happens. I expect to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

September was a busy month here, with about 49,000 hits, nosing it past June for the second busiest month. October looks to be even better, thanks in large part to the election, which appears to be driving everyone’s traffic up. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

September’s almost over, isn’t it? That means I really ought to do the August traffic report, so I don’t fall any farther behind. We had about 45,000 hits in August, a nice rebound from the doldrums of July but still … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Had about 37,000 hits in July, which is a dropoff from June and May but not bad considering I had no flood-of-traffic links. This is probably my natural level for now. I’ll be curious to see if the publicity surrounding … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just shy of 50,000 visits in June, making it a bit slower than May but still second-best all time. Nothing like a couple of links from Kevin Drum to send the hit counter spinning, that’s for sure. July is shaping … Continue reading → Continue reading →

May was by far my busiest month ever, with about 56,000 visitors. I have Comptroller Strayhorn and the Unitarian Universalist Church to thank for that, as both my original post and my followup on the reversal were linked all over … Continue reading → Continue reading →

April was my best month ever, with about 41,000 hits. A couple of referrals from Kevin Drum’s new Political Animal site was a big part of the boost. Things have tapered off a bit so far in May, but my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There were about 33,000 hits here in March, a number that might have been a bit higher had it not been for some outages, including a major DDOS attack, on my webhost. Traffic fluctuates somewhat from week to week, with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t really know how much traffic I had in February thanks to the sudden and inexplicable death of my Sitemeter counter early on in the month. After a couple days of ruling out every other possibility, I decided it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve gone and reclaimed the old Sitemeter counter I’d used on my Blogspot site. Had to reset it to zero and rebuild all my pages, and I’ll be taking a WAG as to my actual February numbers, and so on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

December was my busiest month ever, with over 35,000 hits on the Sitemeter counter, thanks to several high-profile links to my Worst Movies list and my interview with Richard Morrison. Had there not been the usual lull for Christmas and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There were about 26,000 visitors in November, so it had about the same daily pace as October. As with October, it would have been more had it not been for a Real World event, in this case Thanksgiving. A link … Continue reading → Continue reading →

October was a slower month than September, thanks in part to the end of the redistricting battle and the week off that I took to go to France. Still, some 27,000 hits were recorded, making it my second busiest month … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Better get to this before October ends – September continued a trend of Best Months Ever, a trend that will be broken this month thanks both to a perfect storm of events that pushed me to new heights and my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m just back from an out-of-town trip and still feeling a bit mellow, so regular blogging will resume tomorrow. Meantime, I had about 27,000 hits in August, making it by far my best month yet. Having a full month of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

July was by far my best month for visits, with nearly 19,000 Sitemeter hits. That’s more than double my next best month. There were two factors for this. One was that search engine referrals are now being counted by Sitemeter. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the effects of adding Sitemeter code to my archive pages was to move up by about a month the date on which my 100,000th Sitemeter hit would arrive. Counting the roughly 18,500 hits I got on my old … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So yesterday, when I pointed to the new Blog Traffic Ranking at TTLB, I noted that I hardly got any Sitemeter referrals from search engines, even though I got tons of them on my old Blogspot blog. This led Prof. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Atrios, I see that TTLB has a new feature, which is a ranking of blog traffic based on Sitemeter statistics. There are numerous caveats that come with this – not everyone uses Sitemeter, not everyone makes their stats public … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I had about 7600 visitors in June, making it my second-best month ever. In the end, the pace was just slightly behind that of May, when I broke 8000 hits; going out of town for a few days dropped the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

May was my busiest month ever by a lot, with about 8100 visits, according to Sitemeter. That’s over 1500 hits more than my previous high water mark. Without a doubt, the story of the Killer D’s drove much of that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

April started out like gangbusters and may have been my busiest month ever had I not taken a week off to visit California. Not that I’m complaining, mind you – we had a fantastic time out west. I still wound … Continue reading → Continue reading →

March was my second-best month for traffic, beating out last December by a nose at just over 6500 visitors. It actually started out slowly, then got a strong boost when Sean-Paul blogrolled me. The visible counter on the lower right … Continue reading → Continue reading →

February was a slower month than the previous two, but it still wound up as my fourth-best ever, with slightly over 5500 visits. February 8 marked one year since I installed a hit counter. I recorded about 54,000 visits in … Continue reading → Continue reading →