Monthly Roundup - October 2008

Posted November 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 October 2008.

25 most popular articles in October 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. Last month's rank is shown in square brackets after the post title, or [-] if it wasn't in the top 25 last month.

1. Howto Restart Apache [1] (December 22nd 2004)
2. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [2] (February 13th 2004)
3. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [3] (July 16th 2004)
4. Cross Table Update with MySQL [4] (March 1st 2004)
5. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [5] (January 19th 2004)
6. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [6] (October 16th 2007)
7. Access denied when logging into VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows [-] (May 8th 2008)
8. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [10] (July 17th 2004)
9. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [9] (May 29th 2008)
10. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH [8] (March 5th 2004)
11. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [7] (June 26th 2008)
12. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection [13] (June 21st 2008)
13. VMWare Server Console Connection Refused [11] (February 10th 2008)
14. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL [12] (March 21st 2004)
15. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [14] (April 18th 2008)
16. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found [19] (September 25th 2007)
17. Cross Table Delete with MySQL [15] (March 1st 2004)
18. Howto log into an SSH Server Using PuTTY [21] (March 23rd 2004)
19. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [17] (August 27th 2008)
20. Installing mod_ssl on Apache on CentOS 5 [-] (September 20th 2007)
21. Sendmail remote connection refused [23] (November 30th 2003)
22. Installing fonts in Open Office [-] (November 30th 2003)
23. Correcting the PHP timezone [-] (March 16th 2008)
24. Modifying the Linux Grub boot loader's options [18] (April 5th 2008)
25. Reinstall TCP/IP on Windows XP [20] (August 8th 2007)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and have had an 10% increase in visitor numbers and 9% increase in pageviews from September to October. The number of visitors to my website is continuing to double every six months. The following table shows visitor numbers and pageviews for each month from July to October 2008.

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 85 RSS subscribers, the same as last month, although it peaked at 100 for a few days one week.

Changes made this month

I modified the "Add to X" feed reader / bookmarking / social networking function at the end of each post on October 2nd (read more about this here) which seemed to have an initial positive effect and my RSS subscribers got up to around 100 but then they seem to have dropped back down again after I had my RSS feed moved from Feedburner to Google towards the end of the month. Given it works the same way (and Google owns Feedburner) it's unlikely the move has made the decrease. I guess there's only 85 of you interested enough to subscribe :)

I finally added a "related posts" function and have slowly been linking posts as I blog about new things that relate to older posts in one way or another. As part of this update I also added a list of the 6 most recents posts to the end of each article. Read more about this here.

Things to do

The ability for people to comment. This should happen this month as the new framework I have been working on is almost complete and I'll most likely be moving this blog onto it and add in commenting at that time.