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. I’d guess that amounts to about 7000-8000 hits, which means that this still would have been easily my best month ever. The reason for that, of course, was the ongoing redistricting mess. As in the month of May, our legislative circus has helped bring many people here.
On that note, I’d like to thank the many bloggers who have cited my coverage of this continuing saga, in no particular order: Taegen Goddard, Atrios, Byron LaMasters, Calpundit, Rob Booth, Sisyphus Shrugged, Save Texas Reps, Ruminate This, Greg Wythe, Angry Bear, Ginger Stampley, Pacific Views, Linkmeister, Kevin Whited, UggaBugga, Scott Chaffin, Steve Smith, Daily Kos, Puri sermonis amator, JBHolston, Apostropher, Swanky Conservative, Henry Lewis, Greg Greene, Morat, PG, Norbizness, Thomas Nephew, and Jeff Cooper. I’ve probably forgotten someone, and if it’s you please accept my apologies for the oversight. (Update: And the winner of the I-knew-I’d-forget-someone sweepstakes is Tom Spencer. Sorry, Tom!)
As usual, top referrers can be found under the More link. As always, thanks to everyone for reading and for returning. I do appreciate it.
Aggregators, collections, indices, etc ====================================== 349: http://www.technorati.com/ 142: http://subhonker7.userland.com/rcsPublic/ 113: http://www.kooqoo.com/ 104: http://www.weblogs.com/ 95: http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ Weblog referrers ================ 2074: Calpundit
1573: Daily Kos
557: Atrios
470: TAPPED
392: Political Wire
332: Political State Report
314: The Burnt Orange Report
283: Michael Savage Sucks
238: Tom Spencer
227: Coffee Corner
196: Cooped Up
177: The Agonist
172: UggaBugga
150: Rob Booth
139: Rhetoric & Rhythm
94: Ruminate This
89: Cursor
87: Matthew Yglesias
86: Liberal Oasis
78: Henry Lewis
72: Pandagon
Top search terms ================ #reqs: search term -----: ----------- 165: diane zamora 84: michael weiner 65: dan morales 60: gregg phillips 56: rush limbaugh espn 40: prime number algorithm 38: mastercard moments 36: marnie rose 34: ron kirk 33: off the kuff 32: amber kulhanek 29: national talk like a pirate day 28: lea fastow 26: darlie routier 25: girls with glasses 25: texas redistricting history 24: redneck neighbor
I found your site last fall and, although I don’t check in every day, find it reassuring that someone in Texas takes a jaundiced view of most things “W”.
Well, Charles, once again, great job. Where are you able to find “top search terms”? Is that somewhere on SiteMeter?
Byron – All of the monthly stats come from a script that Dreamhost provides. The free Sitemeter account doesn’t have that level of detail. Check Dreamhost’s knowledge base – they should have a listing for a canned CGI script that does referrer stats.
Diane Zamora?! Wow, I haven’t heard that name in a while.
I found your site via your crossposts at polstate, though it was probably reinforced by eschaton and dailykos.