Traffic slumped a bit in November, as substantive posting dropped compared even to October’s already slow pace. Other excuses: Global warming, transit labor unrest in France, illegal file-sharing, I’m not very good, etc. The Hiphopopotamus lyrics post looked like it had finally died, only to see a mid-month resurgence:

Did that FOTC episode air again? Maybe overseas? The stupid thing is still impenetrably on top, in any event. On to the November stats, from Google Analytics and FeedBurner. Lifetime stats start Feb. 13, 2007.

TOP 10 POSTS

1. More Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros: HBO version lyrics (July 20, 2007)
2. Heavy pressure; NFL players struggle with weight game (Oct. 29, 2006)
3. Why I hate Wachovia even more than Volkswagen (Nov. 11, 2007)
4. Paper View Monday: USA Today/Gannett (Nov. 12, 2007)
5. Deciding our own fate: Newspapers must approach outsourcing intelligently to innovate and survive (Nov. 28, 2007)
6. Does calling newspapers ‘newspapers’ make me sound like a stupid old fool? (Nov. 21, 2007)
7. ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 4 released (Nov. 16, 2007)
8. Paper View Monday: San Jose Mercury News (Nov. 19, 2007)
9. Paper View Monday: The Birmingham News (US) and The Birmingham Post (UK) (Nov. 5, 2007)
10. Feed subscription stats highlight a humbling trend (Nov. 6, 2007)

TRAFFIC SUMMARY

• 1,159 visits (11,310 lifetime)
• 907 unique visits (7,836 lifetime)
• 2,534 page views (28,955 lifetime)
• 2.19 average page views (2.56 lifetime)
• 2:01 average time on site (3:12 lifetime)
• 66.01% bounce rate (64.95% lifetime)
• 74.46% new visits (69.20% lifetime)

FEED SUBSCRIPTION SUMMARY

• 51 minimum (5 lifetime)
• 65 maximum (65 lifetime)
• 57 mean (35 lifetime)
• 57 median (35 lifetime)
• 57 mode (22 lifetime)

BROWSERS

• Firefox: 557 visits, 48.06% (52.96% lifetime)
  • 97.49% FF 2 and above
  • 2.33% FF 1.5 and below
  • 0.18% FF 3
• Internet Explorer: 517 visits, 44.61% (37.67% lifetime)
  • 56.87% IE 7
  • 43.13% IE 6
• Safari: 70 visits, 6.04% (7.20% lifetime)
• Opera: 8 visits, 0.69% (0.82% lifetime)
• Netscape: 4 visits, 0.35% (0.65% lifetime)
• Camino: 2 visits, 0.17% (0.33% lifetime)
• Konqueror: 1 visit, 0.09% (0.01% lifetime)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Windows: 962 visits, 83.00% (80.90% lifetime)
  • 82.22% XP
  • 9.56% Vista
  • 5.41% Server 2003
  • 2.29% 2000
  • 0.42% 98
  • 0.10% CE
• Mac: 179 visits, 15.44% (17.31% lifetime)
  • 58.10% Intel
  • 41.90% PowerPC
• Linux: 16 visits, 1.38% (1.45% lifetime)
• iPhone: 1 visit, 0.09% (0.01% lifetime)
• Unknown: 1 visit, 0.09% (0.29% lifetime)

TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS

• 1024 x 768: 344 visits, 29.68% (32.04% lifetime)
• 1280 x 1024: 334 visits, 28.82% (30.29% lifetime)
• 1280 x 800: 146 visits, 12.60% (11.80% lifetime)
• 1440 x 900: 72 visits, 6.21% (5.86% lifetime)
• 1680 x 1050: 53 visits, 4.57% (3.86% lifetime)

(totally subjective) TOP 10 ACTUAL SEARCH STRINGS (with some editorial comment)

• what is the ethnicity of tebow? (My answer: As the son of Jor-El, Tim Tebow is Kryptonese.)
• unhappy walrus
• stupid customer pictures
• modesto county ninjas
• how” a picture is worth a thousand words” apply to television journalism
• crazy eyed mike
• bad cat statistics (In our case, 1 bad cat, 1 good cat.)
• “service pack 4″ arcgis wtf
• nytimes printing quality (Not so great.)
• herad tribune bulding sarasota (From someone in Seoul, South Korea!)