Monthly Roundup - May 2008Monthly Roundup - May 2008

Posted June 1st, 2008 in Monthly Roundup

My monthly round up posts a summary of the most read posts over the previous month, numbers of visitors to the blog and any changes I have made over the month that may have affected visitor numbers etc. This is the monthly roundup for May 2008.

25 most popular articles in May 2008

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in May, along with the original post date. The list is compiled from Google Analytics, looking at the "Top Content" report and sorting by unique pageviews.

  1. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ (February 13th 2004)
  2. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table(July 16th 2004)
  3. Howto Restart Apache (December 22nd 2004)
  4. Cross Table Update with MySQL (March 1st 2004)
  5. How to check an MD5 hash on a file (January 19th 2004)
  6. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL (July 17th 2004)
  7. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH (March 5th 2004
  8. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL (March 21st 2004)
  9. Sendmail remote connection refused (November 30th 2003)
  10. Install yum with rpm on CentOS (October 16th 2007)
  11. VMWare Server Console Connection Refused (February 10th 2008)
  12. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found (September 25th 2007)
  13. Howto log into an SSH Server Using PuTTY (March 23rd 2004)
  14. Cross Table Delete with MySQL (March 1st 2004)
  15. VMWare USB device issues on openSUSE 10.3 (October 4th 2007)
  16. Process Forking with PHP (March 4th 2004)
  17. Install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine (February 17th 2008)
  18. Installing fonts on openOffice (November 30th 2003)
  19. Modifying the Linux Grub boot loader's options (April 5th 2008)
  20. Reinstall TCP/IP on Windows XP (August 8th 2007)
  21. Installing mod_ssl on Apache on CentOS 5 (September 20th 2007)
  22. Sendmail Connection Refused on localhost (November 30th 2003)
  23. Use RSA and DSA key files with PuTTY and puttygen (March 23rd 2004)
  24. POP3 Commands (February 13th 2004)
  25. Access denied when logging into VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows (May 8th 2008)

Visitor numbers

I added Google Analytics to the site at the end of February, so now have over three full month's worth of data to be able to look at. Previously I used AWStats, but this is prone to over-reporting due to bots and screen scrapers stealing content, looking for email addresses etc. I've only had a small amount of growth this month.

Analytics

Month Visitors Pageviews
March 2008 19,083 22,951
April 2008 24,158 28,804
May 2008 25,993 30,595

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I only started the RSS feed at the start of December. I curently have around 50 RSS subscribers, which is the same as last month.

Technorati Score

I started logging my Technorati score from March, because I thought it would be interesting to see how it changes over time. Lower rank number is better; higher authority number is better. It probably doesn't mean much but interesting to look at anyway!

Month Rank Authority
March 1st 2008 415,686 20
April 1st 2008 377,609 22
May 1st 2008 646,322 15
June 1st 2008 574,833 17

Things to do

I added an off-topic running section this month to cover the marathons and half-marathons I run. At some point I may split this off into a separate blog website. On this blog I still need to add previous/next posts, related posts and possibly commenting, although I'm still not sure if/when I'll add the ability to comment.

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