Monthly Roundup - September 2008

Posted October 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 September 2008.

25 most popular articles in September 2008

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in September, 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. How to check an MD5 hash on a file (January 19th 2004)
6. Install yum with rpm on CentOS (October 16th 2007)
7. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved (June 26th 2008)
8. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH (March 5th 2004)
9. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login (May 29th 2008)
10. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL (July 17th 2004)
    
11. VMWare Server Console Connection Refused (February 10th 2008)
12. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL (March 21st 2004)
13. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection (June 21st 2008)
14. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP (April 18th 2008)
15. Cross Table Delete with MySQL (March 1st 2004)
16. VMWare Server - errors opening virtual machines from Workstation/Player (June 20th 2008)
17. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell (August 27th 2008)
18. Modifying the Linux Grub boot loader's options (April 5th 2008)
19. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found (September 25th 2007)
20. Reinstall TCP/IP on Windows XP (August 8th 2007)
21. Howto log into an SSH Server Using PuTTY (March 23rd 2004)
    
22. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL (July 29th 2008)
23. Sendmail remote connection refused (November 30th 2003)
    
24. POP3 Commands (February 13th 2004)
25. Process Forking with PHP (March 4th 2004)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and have had an 15% increase in visitor numbers and 14% increase in pageviews from August to September. The number of visitors to my website currently doubles every six months. The following table shows visitor numbers and pageviews for each month from June to September 2008.

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 85 RSS subscribers, 10 more than as last month. I added an "Add to X" feed reading service buttons on September 11th (read "Website changes September 11th 2008" for more details) and this seems to have had a postitive effect

Things to do

I still need to add previous/next posts, related posts and commenting. Maybe this month, maybe not :)  It all depends if I get the time to.