January was big

January was the biggest month on record for this site. From a content perspective, there were 31 new posts, helped along partly by the introduction of the All things Excel category and partly by the Monty Hall problem. Oddly enough, or maybe not, the previous high from a content perspective was January 2004, with 26 posts.

Usage has never been higher, with 51,052 pages being served in January (an average of 1,646 per day) from 12,875 visits (415 per day). The previous high was 42,120 pages served in July 2005. Traffic has increased by 552% since January 2005, when the site served 7,821 pages.

By far my favourite search term used to access the site was "channel four babe minger thumb scan", successfully directing people here seven times. Not the most popular, but certainly my favourite. India has made it on to the top five countries from which the site was accessed, with 1.0% of known, resolved traffic, behind the US (78%), Mexico (7%), UK (2.5%) and Greece (1.8%). The remainder of the top ten comprises Australia, Germany, Holland, Austria and Costa Rica.

Finally, you may have noticed that I’ve entered the world of Javascript, incorporating a random book of fact and a random book of fiction off to the right each time a page is loaded. Thanks to Sesh for his help in implementing this. Each book is taken from a list of ten that I’m particularly fond of, although as previously posted, I’m still not overly comfortable with the distinction.

January 31, 2006 | Filed Under General 

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3 Responses to “January was big”

  1. Shanahan on January 31st, 2006 22:55

    Hah! So you roped Sesh in, that’s how you ended up with Feynman in the book listings. Tell me this, is it still on the whiteboard?

  2. Dan on January 31st, 2006 23:01

    The book choices were all mine. The Feynman book (WDYCWOPT) was given to me as a birthday present over ten years ago, and the rest have been read over time.

    Sesh was not involved in the book choices, merely in the code refinement.

    The whiteboard is now as white as a white thing on a blustery Christmas day in lapland.

  3. Shanahan on February 2nd, 2006 11:32

    Hey, can you share your logs? I have much lower numbers than yours, I suspect the definition of Page, Visit etc. is different.
    Here’s mine:
    http://216.250.116.51/cp/awstats/awstats.pl?config=fshana

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