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 is relative, of course – last year at this time I had 35,000 hits and it was my best month ever up till then.
Counting it all up for the year, I got about 535,000 hits, which is pretty amazing to me. As always, I thank you all very much for coming by. I feel very rewarded knowing that you do.
Top referrers are beneath the More link. Sadly, this month I seem to be deluged with spam domains in the referral stats that I get from my webhost. They don’t show up as Sitemeter referrals, which makes me wonder if they’re comment or trackback spams that got blocked by MT Blacklist but still counted as referrals by my host. I don’t know, but I do know that at the rate some of these are showing up, they may crowd out real referrers from the monthly total (I only see the top numbers). We’ll see what happens.
Aggregators, collections, indices, etc ====================================== 418: http://www.bloglines.com 268: http://blo.gs/ Weblog referrers ================ 3253: Atrios
1736: Daily Kos
481: TAPPED
344: The Sideshow
147: The Burnt Orange Report
137: The American Street
117: Pandagon
101: Safety for Dummies
194: Pandagon
81: Slightly Rough
77: MyDD
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