Monthly Roundup - June 2009 - Statistics

Posted July 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 June 2009.

Please note there will be a second post later on today with regular on-topic content.

25 most popular articles in June 2009

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in June 2009, along with the original post date. The list is compiled using my PHP Class for the Google Analytics API to get the unique pageviews for posts in the month. Last month's rank is shown in square brackets after the post title, or [-] if it wasn't in the top 25 last month.

Note that unique pageviews means it's only counted once for each visitor so if someone views the page multiple times it's still only counted once for that user. If I sorted by pageviews the list would be slightly different with the Google Analytics API and PHP post in second position because people refer back to that page multiple times.

1. How to get and set form element values with jQuery [1] (November 13th 2008)
2. Howto Restart Apache [2] (December 22nd 2004)
3. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [4] (April 18th 2008)
4. How to check and uncheck a checkbox with jQuery [5] (November 14th 2008)
5. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [3] (July 16th 2004)
6. Setting cookies with jQuery [-] (June 9th 2009)
7. Cross Table Update with MySQL [7] (March 1st 2004)
8. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [8] (February 13th 2004)
9. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [11] (October 16th 2007)
10. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [14] (June 26th 2008)
11. jQuery: show plain text in a password field and then make it a regular password field on focus [-] (June 2nd 2009)
12. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [9] (January 19th 2004)
13. The Google Analytics API and PHP: A series [6] (April 28th 2009)
14. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [17] (May 29th 2008)
15. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL [16] (July 29th 2008)
16. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [13] (July 17th 2004)
17. Loading content with jQuery AJAX - using a loading image [15] (February 3rd 2009)
18. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [19] (August 27th 2008)
19. Backup/export bookmarks with Mozilla Firefox 3 [22] (June 24th 2008)
20. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection [20] (June 21st 2008)
21. Describe table structure with MS SQL Server [-] (July 23rd 2008)
22. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH [18] (March 5th 2004)
23. Style an HTML form input with CSS and jQuery [-] (July 26th 2008)
24. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found [21] (September 25th 2007)
25. Always show a vertical scrollbar in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera [-] (June 20th 2009)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and saw an increase of 12.9% in visits and 11.7% in pageviews between May and June. The following table shows visits and pageviews for the six months from January 2009 to June 2009.

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 310 RSS subscribers, 70 more than last month.

Changes made this month

I've switched out the ad next to the Google Adsense block for a Buy Sell Ads square and added an advertising block utilising the same service in the right sidebar. If you are interested in advertising here please see my ads page on Buy Sell Ads.