Port 16’s Blog Report for September 2007

October 1, 2007

September was another great month for Port 16. I had 34 posts, which brought my grand total up to 75 since the blog’s start.

This was the blog’s second full month of operation, and I really have to say that I couldn’t be more happy with the stats. Well I could be a little happier, but I’m not complaining one bit.

Here are the vitals.

Visitors: 405 Absolute Unique Visitors. This is up from 105 last month. I’m really glad to have each and every one of you here.

PageViews: 1,567. Last month I had 1,370, but I was also working out some theme issues, so I think that a good chunk of last month’s numbers were actually me reloading the page.

New Visits: 57.88%. This is up from 34.06% last month. Lots of new people finding the blog.

Bounce Rate: 53.46%. This is really encouraging, since it means that around half the people who come to the site look around for awhile. Last month the number was 43.27 percent, which means a larger percentage of people stuck around, but I’m still happy that I am keeping so many visitors.

Top Posts

1. Test Drive Ubuntu Linux Without Installing Anything on Your Computer - Most geeks want to check out Linux, and this is a painfully easy way to eyeball it without changing anything on your computer.

This post somehow was stumbled, and received quite a number of visitors. The spike in the graphic above is actually just from this post.

2. The Gmail Collaborative video - I posted about the release of the final video, and I have seen a large number of people coming from the Gmail blog to visit me. It hasn’t been the first time this has happened, but I’m still impressed at the number of people who come over from there.

3. WordPress 2.3 is available - I still  haven’t installed it. Soon though. Lots of new features here, so you should take a look at it.

4. Alphabet Soup - Chasing Microsoft Certifications - Some reasons to get certified, and links to a salary survey.

5. Those crazy kids and their blogs… - This was a summary of a bunch of blog updates that I had seen in the blogs that I follow. Don’t ask me why I chose that couch though. My wife had taken some pictures of couches she liked, so that she could compare them later on. If you are curious, we didn’t buy this couch, but it does look similar to our old one.

Last month I had said that I would like to get more on topic, and I am glad to see that all of the top posts this month were about technical topics.

If you were a reader of my old blog, you may notice that I have started re-posting every once in awhile. I didn’t want to grab the whole blog, since most of it is dated now, but I am grabbing my favorites. I still have a big list that I am going to migrate, but I am breaking them up with fresh posts.

Stay tuned.

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