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 search engine hits among my Sitemeter-counted stats was a big part of that, but some big referrals from Atrios, Calpundit, Kos and Tom Spencer also helped.
I received the 100,000th Sitemeter hit for this site in August, which thanks to the search engine referrals was well ahead of projections. Filtering all that out, it feels like I have about 400-500 daily human visitors, which just amazes me. Thank you all very much for coming by and especially for coming back.
High referrers are beneath the More link for those who might be interested.
Aggregators, collections, indices, etc ====================================== 314: http://www.technorati.com/ 168: http://subhonker7.userland.com/rcsPublic/ 113: http://www.kooqoo.com/ 96: http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ 92: http://www.weblogs.com/ Weblog referrers ================ 3724: Atrios
1929: Daily Kos
560: Tom Spencer
545: TAPPED
493: Calpundit
349: The Burnt Orange Report 278: The Agonist
258: Gorilla-A-Gogo
242: Oliver Willis
238: Political State Report
170: Pandagon
145: Coffee Corner
118: Matthew Yglesias
104: Rob Booth
103: Rhetoric & Rhythm
97: Henry Lewis
94: Cursor
89: Owen Courreges
83: The Poor Man
81: The Sideshow
78: Cooped Up
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