Monthly Roundup - August 2009 - Statistics

Posted September 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 August 2009.

25 most popular articles in August 2009

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in August 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. How to check and uncheck a checkbox with jQuery [2] (November 14th 2008)
3. Howto Restart Apache [3] (December 22nd 2004)
4. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [4] (April 18th 2008)
5. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [5] (July 16th 2004)
6. Setting cookies with jQuery [9] (June 9th 2009)
7. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [7] (February 13th 2004)
8. Cross Table Update with MySQL [6] (March 1st 2004)
9. Loading content with jQuery AJAX - using a loading image [13] (February 3rd 2009)
10. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [8] (October 16th 2007)
11. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [11] (January 19th 2004)
12. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [10] (June 26th 2008)
13. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [14] (May 29th 2008)
14. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL [12] (July 29th 2008)
15. jQuery Superfish Menus Plug-in [-] (August 14th 2009)
16. The Google Analytics API and PHP: A series [17] (April 28th 2009)
17. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [15] (July 17th 2004)
18. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [16] (August 27th 2008)
19. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH [20] (March 5th 2004)
20. Add options to an HTML select box with Javascript [21] (March 3rd 2009)
21. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection [18] (June 21st 2008)
22. Describe table structure with MS SQL Server [19] (July 23rd 2008)
23. Footer example using HTML and CSS [-] (January 8th 2009)
24. Correcting the PHP timezone [-] (March 16th 2008)
25. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found [26] (September 25th 2007)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics. August saw the first decrease in visitor numbers and pageviews that I can remember since I've been tracking this on a monthly basis.

Subscribers/Followers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 380 RSS subscribers, 40 more than last month. There are also 10 people receiving the feed by email. 48 people are following me on Twitter and there are 12 people following me on Facebook.