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Traffic Stats: Getting Bigger
By Greg L | 2 October 2007 | Blogs | 7 Comments
Traffic sure seems to be growing:
| Month | Requests | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2006 | 85,139 | 46,716 |
| Dec 2006 | 153,703 | 71,998 |
| Jan 2007 | 251,054 | 97,197 |
| Feb 2007 | 409,022 | 107,363 |
| Mar 2007 | 451,614 | 166,047 |
| Apr 2007 | 425,387 | 117,522 |
| May 2007 | 551,496 | 157,681 |
| Jun 2007 | 697,666 | 195,198 |
| Jul 2007 | 792,982 | 199,274 |
| Aug 2007 | 1,047,563 | 216,162 |
| Sep 2007 | 1,296,992 | 238,304 |
“Requests” in the above are all of the HTTP requests made for different files, including individual images, pages and stylesheets. “Pages” are requests that are specifically for a web page, excluding all the requests for elements that are contained within them. This is pretty significant and relatively steady growth.
Is the locally-focused blog the future of the Virginia blogosphere? Could be, as a lot of this growth isn’t coming from attracting readers from other site, but growing readership that previously wasn’t visiting any other sites. Those readers are likely to venture out and sample what else is available, building the general community of Virginia political blogs, since we all seem to fill different niches that appeal to different local or thematic interests. Thankfully, this is not a zero-sum game.
If only this could be a paying gig. Having over a million requests a month is still pretty cool, though.
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Speaking of traffic, Oklahoma says NO to NAFTA Superhighway: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57929
OK….is taking action for sure! We need to quit talking and start getting results. We have had enough studies, dialogue, etc. ACTION TIME NOW!
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27842
Congratulations
Greg, like TV of the past until cable broke the mold, you can make a living selling advertising the bigger you get. Personally, I think you do better than ABC, NBC, CBS etc, because you investigate what is relevant in my life, not 1/2 way around the world. I would much rather spend the few precious moments reading what you and others have to say about my local community, that the drivel spouted and contrived by Turner News, CNN or others just to capture my sense of desire for entertainment and ratings numbers.
Thank you for doing this for us, in case you have not been thanked often enough.
This IS the new news medium, so politicians better learn to trust it. It WILL change the way people vote and is the promary source of infor for how people make an intelligent voting decision. To help us better, post the issues of EACH candidate, voting record summaries, etc, so we can vote more intelligently at the polls. Blogs are real people saying real things, not fake people on TV saying fake things to get ratings and become celebrities.
Good for Oklahoma. I used to live there. They have a sense of community and ethics, unlike this area of political insanity gone awry where “social workers” dominate today’s politics
Before any of you make some wise butt comment about Oklahoma being backward in any way, I flew as an Air Force combat veteran out of Oklahoma for over 10 years and got to know them very well. I’m from Virginia, but the people there are not as tainted by political correctness as they are here. I was glad to have known and respected many of them. I wish Will Rogers had lived in this time, he’d have a thing or two to tell people about “illegal” immigration.