Sour Swinger Predominantly follows my Army & Iraq Deployment. Also has some Geek, School, and other talk.

Another month done, another monthly statistic analysis.  Unfortunately, I didn’t shatter records like i’ve been doing the past 2 months.  Guess I’m starting to plateau.  So instead of comparing this month with all the other months combined, I’ll compare it to last month.  For the most part, all the numbers are basically the same.  I managed to get about 100 more hits, 1,418.  The graph:

I gained a significant amount of traffic from the Pittsburgh Anti-War Protest. I had 139 hits on the day of, followed by 100 the day after.  Probably helped that I also did four posts for that day.  Though in those two days, that post took the number one most viewed spot for the entire month.

The number of people coming to my blog by searching has more then doubled.  Definitely a good sign.  Can only get so much traffic through direct links, ie YouTube and Flickr.

I’m actually surprised that I reached the numbers I did for March.  For the first two weeks I only managed to post twice.  School and life kept me extremely busy and nothing blog worthy was happening to me.  So really, these figures are mostly coming from the last two weeks of March.  Had I blogged regularly, I may have had significantly more hits.  Staying on par with last month allowed be to double my total blog hits: 3,284.

1 Mar – 31 Mar    Visitors 457 visits 256 were unique 14.74 per day 1,418 page views 3.10 pages/visit 52.74% bounce rate 55.14% were new visits 152 visits from PA 51 visits from NY 19 visits from VA 49% used Firefox 30% used IE 21% used Safari Traffic Sources 56% from referring sites 37% from search engines 7% direct traffic Content 933 Unique Page Views 45 viewed “Pitt Anti-War Protest” 40 viewed “Libertarians/Comp Sci” 40 viewed “Steev: Women…Psyche” Most hits in a day, 139 on 30 Mar followed by 105, on 9 Mar with a close 100, on 31 Mar

1 Feb – 29 Feb    Visitors 442 visits 228 were unique 15.24 per day 1,298 page views 2.94 pages/visit 50.45% bounce rate 50.23% were new visits 252 visits from PA 60 visits from NY 22 visits from VA 69% used Firefox 19% used IE 11% used Safari Traffic Sources 73% from referring sites 13% from search engines 14% direct traffic Content 891 Unique Page Views 71 viewed “Steev: Women…Assholes” 44 viewed “Hike w/Cause” 39 viewed “24 Ride of Love” 39 viewed “Druid Appears” Most hits in a day, 173 on 17 Feb followed by 112, on 18 Feb