And now for something on the light side...For the past few months we've been using Google Analytics (among many others - see the tail end of the right column) to keep site usage statistics. If you run a blog or web site and like in-depth analysis of traffic, Google Analytics is one of the best tools around.
Here is but a sliver of the data for March:
1,837 Average Visits per Day
16,356 Unique Visitors for entire month
Most Popular Diaries (by Unique View Count)
1. BREAKING - Webb Aide arrested for gun UPDATED 772
2. Latest on Webb Aide Phillip Thompson 747
3. Draft Kate Wilder! 578
4. Hillary 1984 518
5. Is Ben Tribbett Running Against Dave M. in Fairfax? 478
6. Gerry Connolly Event: Results and Observations 426
7. Do Democrats Want to Win? 364
8. Deepwater in Deep CaCa - campaign contributions by Dick Cheney's son-in-law?! 347
9. Bad News for Tom Davis, Virginia 342
10.Highlights from Jim Webb at the National Press Club 334
March Visits (Top 10 States)
1. Virginia 30,774
2. District of Columbia 5,700
3. (no data) 3,076
4. Maryland 2,188
5. California 1,795
6. New York 1,256
7. Texas 965
8. North Carolina 794
9. Georgia 788
10. New Jersey 755
March Visits (Top 10 Countries)
1. United States 55,334
2. Canada 268
3. United Kingdom 184
4. Australia 154
5. Germany 113
6. Japan 98
7. Anonymous Proxy 67
8. Latvia 66
9. Spain 65
10. India 38
Top 4 Browsers (by Visit)
1. Internet Explorer 34,228 60.09%
2. Firefox 17,950 31.51%
3. Safari 3,525 6.19%
4. Mozilla 437 0.77%
And there's so much more. If you run a blog I highly recommend you check it out.