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Monthly Roundup - November 2007

Posted December 1st, 2007 in Monthly Roundup

November saw my first month with a post every single day, so I've decided to wrap the month up with a summary of the most popularly accessed blog posts, and a summary of visitor numbers.

10 most popular articles in November from all articles

The following were the most accessed articles on this blog in November for all posts from all time. I've only recently begun frequent posts again to this blog, and have not yet got my RSS feed running (although this will be set up in the next few days), so all requests for my site are currently from people searching for solutions to their problems and not generally from repeat visitors. I've included the date of these older posts which show it's all the stuff that's three years old that is currently the most popular. It will be interesting to see if this changes with my more frequent posting and with an RSS feed.

1. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ (February 13th 2004)
2. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table(July 16th 2004)
3. How to check an MD5 hash on a file (January 19th 2004)
4. Cross Table Update with MySQL (March 1st 2004)
5. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL (March 21st 2004)
6. Sendmail remote connection refused (November 30th 2003)
7. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH (March 5th 2004)
8. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL (July 17th 2004)
9. Howto Restart Apache (December 22nd 2004)
10. Process Forking with PHP (March 4th 2004)

5 most popular articles in November from November articles

This is the top 5 accessed articles from November posts only. Earlier in the month gets beter results for the month as a whole because, as mentioned above, most visitors are still only coming from search engines and are not repeat visitors.

1. Switching SELinux off on CentOS 5
2. SUSE Yast No such client module sw_single
3. Fedora 8 is released - Gnome Live CD Screenshots
4. Fedora 8 is released - KDE Live CD Screenshots
5. Javascript and CSS file timestamps with PHP

Visitor numbers

I use AWStats for reporting visitors to my site, and this generally reports overly high than true numbers due to undetected bots pretending they're real browsers. However, November saw a minor increase in the numbers of visitors over October. October in turn saw a large increase in visitor numbers due to me finally getting my blog going again and making regular posts.

So, the figures from AWStats are as follows for the last four months:

Month	Visitors	Pageviews
August 2007	10,661	13,696
September 2007	11,432	14,554
October 2007	14,750	19,476
November 2007	15,310	20,098