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Monthly Roundup - December 2009 - Statistics

Posted January 2nd, 2010 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 December 2009.

25 most popular articles in December 2009

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in December 2009, along with the original post date. The list is compiled via 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.

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. Loading content with jQuery AJAX - using a loading image [6] (February 3rd 2009)
4. Setting cookies with jQuery [4] (June 9th 2009)
5. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [7] (May 29th 2008)
6. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [3] (April 18th 2008)
7. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [9] (June 26th 2008)
8. Howto Restart Apache [5] (December 22nd 2004)
9. Cross Table Update with MySQL [10] (March 1st 2004)
10. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [8] (July 16th 2004)
11. Using setTimeout() with Javascript [11] (January 27th 2009)
12. Footer example using HTML and CSS [14] (January 8th 2009)
13. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [18] (July 17th 2004)
14. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL [13] (July 29th 2008)
15. Use append() to add text/html to an element with jQuery [21] (June 5th 2009)
16. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [12] (February 13th 2004)
17. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [15] (October 16th 2007)
18. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [16] (January 19th 2004)
19. Canon Easy Photoprint and CD LabelPrint Errors on Windows 7 [-] (June 9th 2009)
20. Using ellipsis with HTML and CSS [-] (December 5th 2009)
21. Describe table structure with MS SQL Server [23] (July 23rd 2008)
22. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [17] (August 27th 2008)
23. How to do the TM symbol in HTML [26] (November 8th 2008)
24. Correcting the PHP timezone [25] (March 16th 2008)
25. The Google Analytics API and PHP: A series [20] (April 28th 2009)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and there was virtually no change from November to December (slightly down on visitor numbers, slightly up on pageviews). The Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year holiday periods caused a big drop and the daily numbers of visitors and pageviews has still yet to return to normal levels.

Month	Visits	Pageviews	PV Per Visit
July 2009	150,044	183,167	1.22
August 2009	145,733	179,639	1.23
September 2009	159,128	197,627	1.24
October 2009	185,530	229,555	1.24
November 2009	189,897	234,301	1.23
December 2009	189,386	235,180	1.24

Subscribers/Followers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 475 RSS subscribers, 25 less than at this time last month. This is the first time I've seen a drop in RSS subscribers and again put this down to the holiday period. The RSS numbers have been hovering anywhere between about 450 and 550 over the month or so.

There are also 10 people receiving the feed by email (same as last month). 112 people are following me on Twitter (11 more than last month) and there are 26 people following me on Facebook (5 more than last month). Hello to you all!

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