Monthly Roundup - February 2009 - Statistics

Posted March 2nd, 2009 in Monthly Roundup

My monthly stats 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 stats roundup for February 2009.

25 most popular articles in February 2009

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in February 2009, 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 [2] (December 22nd 2004)
2. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [1] (July 16th 2004)
3. How to get and set form element values with jQuery [10] (November 13th 2008)
4. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [3] (February 13th 2004)
5. Cross Table Update with MySQL [6] (March 1st 2004)
6. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [11] (April 18th 2008)
7. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [4] (May 29th 2008)
8. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [5] (January 19th 2004)
9. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [9] (October 16th 2007)
10. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [7] (June 26th 2008)
11. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [8] (July 17th 2004)
12. How to check and uncheck a checkbox with jQuery [-] (November 14th 2008)
13. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection [12] (June 21st 2008)
14. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH [13] (March 5th 2004)
15. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [22] (August 27th 2008)
16. Loading content with jQuery AJAX - using a loading image [-] (February 3rd 2009)
17. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL [19] (March 21st 2004)
18. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL [20] (July 29th 2008)
19. VMWare Server Console Connection Refused [17] (February 10th 2008)
20. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found [18] (September 25th 2007)
21. Backup/export bookmarks with Mozilla Firefox 3 [15] (June 24th 2008)
22. Access denied when logging into VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows [16] (May 8th 2008)
23. Style an HTML form input with CSS and jQuery [-] (July 26th 2008)
24. Correcting the PHP timezone [-] (March 16th 2008)
25. Cross Table Delete with MySQL [21] (March 1st 2004)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and saw a huge increase of 16.7% in visitor numbers and 19.6% in pageviews between January and February, which is excllent given February has 3 days less than January. The following table shows visitor numbers and pageviews for each month from October 2008 to February 2009.

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 150 RSS subscribers, 35 more than last month.

Changes made this month

At the start of the month I widened the right navigation bar, making it roughly double the width it was previously, and moved the recent posts from under each post into this area. I also added a list of "Popular Posts" to it just showing the on-topic posts (i.e. not stuff like firewall ports one which is currently the 4th most popular post).

At the moment I update this manually but later this month it will change to being automatically updated. I've been working through a series about how to get data from Google Analytics by email and parse it with PHP. Part of the reason for this series is to be able to do it myself and update that sidebar automatically.

Things to do

The ability for people to comment. Been meaning to do this one for a while now... I will actually get it done this month, along with moving this blog from CodeIgniter to my own framework which is already powering a few of my other websites.