Monthly Roundup - January 2010 - Statistics

Posted February 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 January 2010.

25 most popular articles in January 2010

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in January 2010, 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. Setting cookies with jQuery [4] (June 9th 2009)
4. Loading content with jQuery AJAX - using a loading image [3] (February 3rd 2009)
5. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [6] (April 18th 2008)
6. Howto Restart Apache [8] (December 22nd 2004)
7. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [5] (May 29th 2008)
8. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [10] (July 16th 2004)
9. Cross Table Update with MySQL [9] (March 1st 2004)
10. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [7] (June 26th 2008)
11. Using setTimeout() with Javascript [11] (January 27th 2009)
12. Footer example using HTML and CSS [12] (January 8th 2009)
13. MySQL utility commands [-] (December 30th 2009)
14. Use append() to add text/html to an element with jQuery [15] (June 5th 2009)
15. How to tell if an element is visible with jQuery [-] (September 18th 2009)
16. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [13] (July 17th 2004)
17. Upper case and lower case strings with MySQL [14] (July 29th 2008)
18. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [18] (January 19th 2004)
19. Maximum length for MySQL TEXT field types [-] (February 4th 2009)
20. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [16] (February 13th 2004)
21. Add options to an HTML select box with Javascript [26] (March 3rd 2009)
22. How to do the TM symbol in HTML [23] (November 8th 2008)
23. Describe table structure with MS SQL Server [21] (July 23rd 2008)
24. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [22] (August 27th 2008)
25. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [17] (October 16th 2007)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics. There was quite a big level off at the end of 2009 due to the Thanks Giving, Christmas and New Year holiday period but visitor numbers resumed to better than ever levels from mid January and even though February has less days than January there should still be an increase in numbers from January to February.

Subscribers/Followers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 575 RSS subscribers, although the number bobs up and down as the week goes by, peaking around Wednesday or Thursday where it's got as high as about 620 recently. This is up by about 100 from the end of December and is the highest level to date.

There are also 9 people receiving the feed by email (1 less than last month). 139 people are following me on Twitter (27 more than last month) and there are 35 people following me on Facebook (9 more than last month). Hello to you all!