Blog View Stats for July

It’s time to catch up on some posts I’ve been meaning to write for a very long time, so let’s start with the overdue Blog View Stats for July.

The webstat reports and the Persiflage download stats can be found at http://samuelgordonstewart.com/wp-content/blogstats/2006/july/ ^[1]

There were 7,666 page views in July, down from 10,046 in June, and 3,611 visitors, down from 4,083 in June.

There were 3,213 views of the front page on all of its URLs.

The most popular articles were:

• Here’s The Schnappi Video ^[2]
• What’s Really Happening at ACTION ^[3]
• John B1_B5 Adds To The “Voice Of Reason” Confusion ^[4]
• Bigpond block emails from Gmail ^[5] and
• ASIO Apprehend Alleged Bomb Threat Emailer ^[6]

Google once again remained the most popular search engine, despite a tiny drop, with 89.32% of all search engine referrals coming from Google. Yahoo was next with a slightly improved 9.14%, and MSN was next on 0.59%.

The top ten search keywords were:

1. schnappi video
2. samuel gordon stewart
3. samuel gordon
4. Schnappi video
5. riotact
6. 2ue studio
7. louie the fly
8. samuel gordon-stewart
9. stan zemanek cancer
10. larry emdur

Among the odd keywords were

• what was temperature in sydney at 3am 29th July 2006?
• primary school and english and blog
• 机场建设费 fuel
• 东航 tips
• Mike\’s Windmill Shop manager
• if is child sidebar blix wordpress
• conversation of making a booking, you are a customer calling a restaurant
• australian off-air mp4
• bagpipe music on webstream
• spatchcock gobledegook
• heatseeker browser
• spring nut
• animal taxi software
• 积分活动accumulate
• Combino air-conditioned
• policy¾ggar%melbourne
• common words for lunatic
• funny cityrail ringtones
• how much would 8 bananas cost from woolworths

Internet Explorer lost a bit of ground but remained the most popular browser with 66.17% of the readership, Firefox gained and was next with 28.60%, Safari dropped to have 4.21%. Mozilla Suite, Opera and Netscape were under 1%, with Konqueror and others under 0.1%.

Windows was the most popular Operating System, and gained a small amount, with 90.31% of the readership, followed by Mac, which recorded another drop, with 7.98%, and Linux which gained slightly, to be on 1.62%. All others were under 0.10%.

The vast majority of readers were in Australia, althought the number did drop a few points to 79.28%. Next was the US with 6.67%, The UK with 3.94, and Japan with 2.27%. The rest of the 73 countires were under 1%.

The most popular files for the month were:

• My conversation with John Kerr prior to the Christmas Cruise ^[7], downloaded 166 times.
• Wayne Mac on 6PR ^[8], downloaded 130 times.
• My call to John Kerr on his 64th birthday ^[9], downloaded 128 times.
• The original intro to Samuel’s Persiflage ^[10], downloaded 123 times.
• And Mike Frame’s first moments on-air from Bunnings Belconnen ^[11], also downloaded 123 times.

The top referring sites for the month were:

• The Spin Starts Here ^[12]: 282 referrals
• The RiotACT ^[13]: 54 referrals
• Brown Noise Unit ^[14]: 5 referrals.
• Whoi.sc ^[15]: 5 referrals.
• tommyiscooldotcom ^[16]: 5 Referrals.
• also tied for this position is Deus Lo Vult ^[17]: 5 referrals

Bandwidth
July 2006: 6,770MB
June 2006: 5,900MB
May 2006: 14,680MB
April 2006: 32,130MB
March 2006: 12,350MB
February 2006 9,280MB
January 2006: 14,240MB
December 2005: 14,010MB
November 2005: 2,870MB
October 2005: 657.85MB
September 2005: 519.89MB
August 2005: 82.93MB

Samuel’s Persiflage Statistics

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