Stats, stats and stats - October 2009

You can find August's stats here, and September's here, by the way. If I get more motivated, I might eventually make some graphs and charts with these numbers. Anyway, on to this month's numbers:

Total number of visits – 483 (down by 60)
Total number of pageviews – 730 937 (down by 207)
Average time on site – 1:32 (down 24 seconds)
Percentage of new visitors – 50.31% (up about 7.52%)
Most popular days – Thursday, Oct. 22 (35 visits) and Wednesday, Oct. 21 (28)
Least popular days – Wednesday, Oct. 7 (4 visits)
Top Five referrers – Direct Link (20.91%), Blogger (16.56%), Twitter (12.01%), Google Images (10.77%) and Google (10.56%)
Top Five states – Rhode Island (111 visits), Massachusetts (82), Virginia (35), California (28) and Minnesota (21)
Unpopular states – Nobody visited from Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Delaware, South Carolina and Maine.
Top Five cities – Ft. Myer, VA; Medfield, MA; Brighton, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Somerville, MA
Ad revenue – $1.08, up $0.21
Alltime Ad Revenue - $4.15

Looking at the numbers a bit, October was a bit of a down month for me. I wasn't able to write as much as I would have liked to, and what posts I did do, I felt like I was pressing with a lot of them. Unsurprisingly, the most popular days involved the Tag Team I did with Brenna McCabe, followed by some original research on the Boston Red Sox's free agency options. The Tag Team appealed to my Facebook friends, and the Red Sox post did well with Twitter friends.

So for November, my goal is to put some more effort and care into my posts, and that means focus. Normally, if I spend a bit more time on an entry and write it the night before it is due, then it is better received and more popular. It's kind of like doing a report for school... sigh. I can't escape it even though I graduated two years ago!

The picture comes from this site.

Stats, stats and stats - September 2009

Well, this proved to be popular last month, so I apologize for taking so long in getting it to you this month. I'll probably have October's stats up in a much more timely fashion. Also, as a scheduling note, football picks will now be on Saturdays, and Amanda Meyer's column will be on Sunday nights. That schedule seemed to work out well last week for everyone involved.

You can find September's stats here, by the way. If I get more motivated, I might eventually make some graphs and charts with these numbers. Anyway, on to this month's numbers:

Total number of visits – 543 (up by 135)
Total number of pageviews – 937 (up by 220)
Average time on site – 1:56 (down 7 seconds)
Percentage of new visitors – 42.73% (up about 4.73%)
Most popular days – Sunday, Sept. 13 and Sunday, Sept. 20 (29 visitors)
Least popular days – Friday, Sept. 25 and Saturday, Sept. 26 (10 visitors)
Top Five referrers – Twitter (19.52%), Blogger (17.13%), direct link (14.92%), Google (13.63%) and Google Images (5.89%)
Top Five states – Rhode Island (156 visits), Massachusetts (121), California (25), Virginia (25) and Mississippi (17)
Unpopular states – Nobody visited from Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Delaware, South Carolina and Maine.
Top Five cities – Brighton, MA; Ft. Myer, VA; Medfield, MA; Cambridge, MA; Biloxi, MS
Ad revenue – $0.87, down $0.73
Alltime Ad Revenue - $3.72

The abacus picture comes from this splendid site here.

Stats, stats and stats - August 2009

[Left] Why this album cover? Because it's the album with "Popular", like totally duh.

I always liked when Adam Carolla would announce his salary while he was doing the Loveline radio show, so in a sign of openness, I've decided to share my hit numbers and advertising revenue numbers with you, my faithful readers, after each month. While these numbers might be a little too “inside” for some, I'm always secretly curious about how popular various sites are.

That being said, there is nothing that surprisingly about my blog. From the comments, it probably isn't surprising that I don't get 50 million hit per day, or make enough money to buy a Hawaiian island. (Even a small one with just a single palm tree, like in a Far Side cartoon.) Also, since some have asked me how to support the blog: If you see an ad you LIKE, or that interests you, click it. Just trying to rapidly click them doesn't help, since it invalidates that batch, and it is possible that they think you or I am a spammer, and shut down your account or mine permanently.

Here is the breakdown for Saturday, August 1 to Monday, August 31:

Total number of visits – 408
Total number of pageviews – 717
Average time on site – 2:03
Percentage of new visitors – 37.99%
Most popular days – Monday, August 31 (30 visitors) and Sunday, August 16 (28)
Least popular days – Tuesday, August 11 (2 visitors)
Top Five referrers – Twitter (28.19%), Facebook (13.48%), Blogger (12.50%), direct link (11.52%) and Gmail (6.86%)
Top Five states – Rhode Island (136 visits), Massachusetts (95), Mississippi (27), California (22) and New York (13)
Unpopular states – Nobody from has ever visited by site from Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, West Virginia, Delaware and Vermont.
Top Five cities – Biloxi, MS; Somerville, MA; Franklin, MA; Medfield, MA; Providence, RI
Ad revenue – $1.60, up from $0.52 in July