Today I’m introducing a new monthly feature post for this blog. After each month comes to a close I’ll share some statistics about this blog with you. I intend for these posts to be brief but informative for readers and advertisers. Speaking of which, click here if you’d like to purchase a 125 x 125 advertisement on this site.
For the month of June this blog had:
- 329,576 hits
- 98,242 page-views
- 18,556 visits
- 13,707 unique visitors
The above list does not include 51,120 hits and 50,231 page-views from robots, crawlers, worms and other similar traffic sources. In other words, the above list is human only; that’s a lot of eyeballs! Here is the same information in a bar graph:
My highest trafficked day was June 18th with 43,827 page-views spread over 7,570 visits. Yup, that was the day I was listed on fark.com for this post about the similarity between John McCain and Colonel Tigh from Battlestar Galactica.
This blog is also syndicated via RSS to an average of twenty readers, with a high of 76 readers on June 18th. My facebook profile also pulls a short excerpt of each post and broadcasts it via RSS to my 397 friends.
The five most viewed posts on this blog for the month of June were:
- Battlestar Politica - 9308 page-views
- Casting Call for New Bruce Willis Film, The Surrogates - 739 page-views
- Centralization vs. Decentralization - 655 page-views
- Kevin Garnett a Celtic: We’re Baaaack! - 563 page-views
- U.S. GAAP vs. International GAAP vs. Unified GAAP - 440 page-views
Finally, the five most used search keyphrases that brought visitors here were:
- pieniazek
- anova test
- photo
- ronald jenkees
- finite population correction factor
If there are any other statistics anyone would like to see let me know and I’ll add them (if possible). Thanks to everyone for making June my best month yet! You all rock!
It’s been too long since the last edition of Web Quotes and Counterpoints so here’s the latest quality chatter from around the web.
- Justin from LifeofJustin writes about a random adventure on the USC campus in Parking Lot Drinking at USC. Justin is spot on in describing USC as a movie-esque experience,
What I concluded from this experience, is that I should of went to college at USC. The place is amazing and reminds you of all the movies you see that take place on college campuses.
Really makes me wonder why I transferred from USC…something about new experiences and getting out of the grime of downtown Los Angeles?
- Long time readers here know of my appreciation for the skills of Jay from Scribbles & Words but for you newbies, check out this great, quick tutorial from Jay about how to highlight text using only CSS.
Rather than a quote, here’s how a grey highlight looks.
- Random breaks occur on this blog as I tend to life first but I’ve learned to warn users, or at least put a quick message letting you know I’m still here. Jarko’s tips over at North x East gives a few reasons for taking a break from blogging and how to correctly do so. One of the tips is to save posts for a rainy day, which I already do (perhaps a bit too much with nearly 70 draft-posts). Jarko is right on about why to take a break when he states:
…most importantly, the time away refuels your passion. After a few week’s break you are filled with new energy to pursue your goals with new determination and power.
Each time I’m away from this blog tons of ideas come flowing to me that otherwise I don’t think of. Some of these ideas get implemented and some don’t but letting myself get away from a schedule and allowing my mind to wander certainly makes writing here much more enjoyable.
- All of us have a fight or flight instinct that controls many of our basic functions. This instinct derives from our ancestors having to quickly decide whether they could realistically succeed in a fight or if they should flee and fight another day. Marc from MarcandAngel discusses how to flee like a Bushido Samurai warrior.
There’s some great tips in Marc’s list, my favorite among them is:
Trust only those who have earned it. Be wary of those who have not.
Though it seems like common-sense, many of us throw our trust around to anyone and everyone within range. I tell this to people all the time, before you trust someone you should ask why you should trust them. Are they trying to sell you something or persuade you in some way? If so, most likely they should not be immediately trusted.
- Finally, Daniel from Daily Blog Tips wrote about Larry Page, one of Google’s founders, and Larry’s advice on how to change the world, a theme here this week. Daniel sums up Larry’s advice quite well:
If you want to succeed on the web, you will need to let your fear of failure go away, and to try new and innovative things.
Though Daniel frames it in terms of a web business, his advice applies to life in general. If you fear life, then sadly you’re already nearly dead. In the end, I’d rather die young but doing something I enjoy rather than dying of old age having successfully run away from anything that might be dangerous.
I’m sure many of you have had similar thoughts but fear is a powerful emotion. Grasping that emotion and facing it head on is a thrill and can be used as energy to pursue any goal you have. Once you conquer your fears, they will go away and you’ll become more free.
Something happened overnight to my site and it was not accessible this morning. If you tried visiting here this morning and were denied, sorry.
The issue seems to be fixed at the moment (knock on wood). I’m not sure if the issue was from wordpress or my theme or something else but I solved it by disabling the wp-cache plugin in my wp-config.php file (e.g. commented out the first line that referenced wp-cache), then loaded my blog, went into the dashboard and de-activated the wp-cache plugin, and cleared the cache. That solved the issue of my blog not loading, but it was reset to a basic installation of my theme without any customizations.
So then I scrolled through my plugins and noticed that the “Deactivate wordpress widgets” plugin had mysteriously been deactivated. Once I turned that plugin back on, the K2 sidebar manager returned and all my theme customizations were back. It was quite strange and I’m glad it’s fixed and hopefully stays fixed.
If you experience any issues feel free to send me an e-mail or leave a comment on this post.
Did you know holding the control, alt/option, or command/apple keys while hovering over links in Apple’s Safari browser on Mac OS X brings up new options?
For instance, holding control will bring up a menu (the ‘right click menu’) when you click on a link.
Holding the alt/option key while hovering will download the linked file once you click.
And finally, holding the command/Apple key while clicking a link will open it in a new tab. If you didn’t know these tips before, welcome to the club as I just accidentally discovered them and thought I’d share them here with you.
Know of any good Apple/Safari keyboard shortcuts? If so share them below.
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