in review

Once again, we are going to look at the performance and statistics of this particular webpage over the last year. Just like the last time we did this (and the time before that), I am going to use Google Analytics data, with the repeated warning that its numbers do not agree with the numbers provided by my other two statistics-tracking systems. However, for the sake of consistency, using only one dataset is adviseable. Additionally, where applicable, I will be providing percent or placement changes as compared to last year.

Off we go.

Absolute Unique Visitors: 38,164 (5.7% increase)

Visits: 88,540 (43% increase)

Peak Daily Visitors: 759 (14 June 2010) (72% decrease)

Average Daily Visitors: 242.58 (43% increase)

Total Posts: 1252 (12% decrease)

(Just to touch on the discrepancies between tracking engines, StatCounter shows 136,851 total page loads, 98,773 unique visitors, 63,022 first time visitors, 35,751 returning visitors, and a peak of 1,323 back on 25OCT. Wierd.)

Top Referring Sites:
1. say uncle (no change)
2. Sharp as a Marble (+2)
3. Days of our Trailers (new)
4. The View from North Central Idaho (+2)
5. Hell in a Handbasket (new)
6. The View from the Porch (-1)
7. 3 Boxes of BS (+3)
8. Weerd World (new)
9. MArooned (new)
10. The Liberty Sphere (-8)
(Google, Yahoo, Sitemeter, direct links (bookmarks/typing it in), etc. omitted.)

Top Keywords:
1. walls of the city (no change)
2. linoge (+3)
3. c.o. arms (new)
4. leonard embody (new)
5. kwikrnu (new)
6. a gun is worth a thousand pictures. “doug powers” (new)
7. fuddism (new)
8. mantis knives (new)
9. kershaw ram review (new)
10. 9mm luger (new)
(Variations of “walls of the city” omitted.)

Top Posts:
1. exile machine’s hammerhead ar-15 rifle grip
2. graphics matter, year the second
3. pulling back the curtain
4. janus
5. alexander tristan riley, back at it again
6. sanitary hardware
7. registration leads to confiscation
8. get your screw on
9. graphics matter, year the second, part two
10. the stupidity of assault weapon bans, illustrated

Apart from the lack of an Instalanche this year (and for us small-timers, those are probably once-in-a-lifetime events), this year was an additional success on top of the success of last year – sure, my one-day-peak visitors was lower, but that was entirely due to the aforementioned Instylink last year. On the flip side, I wrote fewer posts, reached more absolute unique people, and had a lot more visits in general – I call that a win.

As I have said before, I write this weblog for myself, but it would be a lot less interesting and engaging if it were not for feedback from you folks… Thanks for your comments, visits, and feedback throughout the years.