Monthly Roundup - August 2008Monthly Roundup - August 2008

Posted September 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 August 2008.

25 most popular articles in August 2008

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in June, 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. Howto Restart Apache (December 22nd 2004)
  2. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ (February 13th 2004)
  3. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table(July 16th 2004)
  4. Cross Table Update with MySQL (March 1st 2004)
  5. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login (May 29th 2008)
  6. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved (June 26th 2008)
  7. Install yum with rpm on CentOS (October 16th 2007)
  8. How to check an MD5 hash on a file (January 19th 2004)
  9. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL (July 17th 2004)
  10. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH (March 5th 2004)
  11. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL (March 21st 2004)
  12. VMWare Server Console Connection Refused (February 10th 2008)
  13. Cross Table Delete with MySQL (March 1st 2004)
  14. Reinstall TCP/IP on Windows XP (August 8th 2007)
  15. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found (September 25th 2007)
  16. Modifying the Linux Grub boot loader's options (April 5th 2008)
  17. Backup/export bookmarks with Mozilla Firefox 3 (June 24th 2008)
  18. Sendmail remote connection refused (November 30th 2003)
  19. VMWare Server - errors opening virtual machines from Workstation/Player (June 20th 2008)
  20. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL (July 29th 2008)
  21. Installing mod_ssl on Apache on CentOS 5 (September 20th 2007)
  22. Howto log into an SSH Server Using PuTTY (March 23rd 2004)
  23. Show Outlook envelope icon in Windows system tray (May 20th 2008)
  24. Describe table structure with MS SQL Server (July 23rd 2008)
  25. Correcting the PHP timezone (March 16th 2008)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and have had an 8% increase in visitor numbers and 5% increase in pageviews from July to August. The following table shows visitor numbers and pageviews for each month from May to August 2008.

Month Visitors Pageviews
May 2008 25,993 30,595
June 2008 29,161 34,668
July 2008 34,593 41,533
August 2008 37,419 43,836

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 75 RSS subscribers, 10 more than as last month. I'm going to add "Add to X" feed reading service buttons at some stage and I'm sure that will help increase RSS subscribes.

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
June 1st 2008 574,833 17
July 1st 2008 367,949 18
August 1st 2008 376,103 19
September 1st 2008 349,785 20

Things to do

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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