Stats for July
It’s a bit late, but obviously no one really cares. Here are the TBOTCOTW stats for July.
Continuing a recent trend July was weaker for traffic than the previous month. We had 24,946 hits, 9,761 pageviews, and 6,376 visits for an average of 804 hits, 314 pageviews, and 205 visits per day. Hell, that compares poorly to July of last year. I had 28,327 hits, 12,012 pageviews, and 7,756 visits then. Kinda sucks to drop almost 1,500 visits a year later, traffic should be constantly growing. But I have a pretty good excuse: I held the very popular sexiest female blogger competition in June a year ago, so I was still seeing residual traffic from that. I had only 450 hits a day in May of 2002, 5,130 in June, and 913 in July. Perhaps I should have a second annual sexiest competition? Let me know what you think in the comments.
The best day of the month was the 23rd, a Wednesday, with 331 visits from 272 sites. The worst day, by a long shot, was the 21st when I had DNS problems, I think, with 69 visits from 66 sites. That 331 visits number is pretty good, if I could average more that 250 visits a day I’d be happy. And the numbers from the end of the month are actually pretty good, well over 200 visits a day.
The top five blog referrers were The Raving Atheist with 73 hits, The World Wide Rant with 37, Conclusive Evidence with 35, VodkaPundit with 31, and Offwing Opinion with 30. I’m frankly surprised at the number of hits that the Raving Atheist is giving, I’m just in his blogroll. Anyone know why he got some sort of traffic spike?
The top ten search terms were:
scary pictures – 302
bubb rubb – 236
barry bonds steroids – 94
matt moore – 46
itunes artwork – 36
belvedere vodka – 32
barry melrose – 31
queef – 26
dust baker comments – 23
real scary pictures – 23
So that’s two searches in the top ten that find my weird NC driver’s license photo. Add that to the fifty odd searches for me on Emode and you’ve got a lot of people thinking that’s what I look like. Which makes it really surprising that that photo has caused three mutual matches (i.e., someone said they’d like to meet me based on that photo, and I’d like to meet them, too).
So, traffic sucked this month. It’s the summer, it’s supposed to suck. But it’s looking up this month, we’re averaging about 900 hits a day. So get out there, link to TBOTCOTW, and make August kick ass. Remember, tell me if you think I should or shouldn’t hold another sexiest female blogger contest sometime.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Clearly the time has come for another contest.
Let her rip. . .
Are you really complaining, you brat? Do you know what NO COMMENTS and NO TRAFFIC is? I’m going to go over there and spank your virtual butt if you dont stop whining. And I’m pretty sure Beth will side with me, too. Well, I hope. Even if she doesn’t…
No kidding, you’re not even that cool in real life. Have a menthol, pop in some JSBX, and chill the fuck out, Aggie drop-out.
I hope you don’t think I’m nasty like Owen. I mean, just look at his name. “Owen Rodgers.” Poor thing.
I’m just hanging out because I went to bed early and someone had the nerve to call me after 11:00 pm and woke me up. So now I’m up and drinking again, so watch the fuck out.
(No, Matt, but really — why do you do these traffic stat things? I’m not just jealous, I’m wondering how the fuckmuchtraffic you actually get.)
Since I’m nasty, does that mean I have to call him “Miss Jackson”?
Matt’s my boy, he gets it.
Terry, I don’t understand. I tell you how thefuckmuch traffic I actually get every month.
And Owen is definitely attacking me to compensate for his tiny penis.
That’s not what your girlfriend thought. Oh, wait, I forgot.
Now wait just one minute…
Beth
Man, for some reason I just can’t get a certain, sappy Kiss song out of my mind right now…
Sorry, it’s nothing personal…
By the way, Beth hates that song since guys dedicate it to her without knowing the lyrics.
Hell, I hate that song.
Because it sucks.