I came this close to finally unseating the Hiphopopotamus post with my summary of our little geocoding accuracy comparison at work. Alas, it was not to be, and the stupid thing remains atop the standings as impenetrably as ever. Apart from the geocoding bit, I don’t remember writing a single substantive post all month. Naturally, traffic reached its highest point since last May. Long tail and all that, eh? On to the January 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. Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach (Jan. 15, 2008)
3. New job title, same great taste (Jan. 6, 2008)
4. A bit of page source humor from the Las Vegas Sun (Jan. 14, 2008)
5. The 2007 site stats report (Jan. 1, 2008)
6. Paper View Monday: The Roanoke Times (Jan. 7, 2008)
7. Bird’s eye view party at my house; No one’s invited (Dec. 30, 2007)
8. Playing with code-free Google Maps (April 4, 2007)
9. How to make a good impression at your newspaper internship (June 8, 2007)
10. Paper View Monday: St. Petersburg Times (Jan. 28, 2008)

TRAFFIC SUMMARY

• 2,246 visits (15,410 lifetime)
• 1,949 unique visitors (11,273 lifetime)
• 3,913 page views (36,299 lifetime)
• 1.74 average page views (2.36 lifetime)
• 1:26 average time on site (2:44 lifetime)
• 73.86% bounce rate (67.42% lifetime)
• 84.55% new visits (73.13% lifetime)

FEED SUBSCRIPTION SUMMARY

• 67 minimum (5 lifetime)
• 89 maximum (89 lifetime)
• 78 mean (44 lifetime)
• 77 median (42 lifetime)
• 74 mode (22 lifetime)

BROWSERS

• Internet Explorer: 1,176 visits, 52.36% (41.41% lifetime)
  • 64.37% IE 7
  • 35.37% IE 6
  • 0.09% IE 5.0
  • 0.09% IE 5.01
  • 0.09% IE 5.5
• Firefox: 870 visits, 38.74% (49.42% lifetime)
  • 95.29% FF 2 and above
  • 4.25% FF 1.5 and below
  • 0.45% FF 3
• Safari: 168 visits, 7.48% (7.18% lifetime)
• Mozilla: 10 visits, 0.45% (0.37% lifetime)
• Opera: 9 visits, 0.40% (0.75% lifetime)
• Camino: 5 visits, 0.22% (0.29% lifetime)
• Netscape: 4 visits, 0.18% (0.52% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 2 visits, 0.09% (0.01% lifetime)
• Blazer: 1 visit, 0.04% (0.01% lifetime)
• Konqueror: 1 visit, 0.04% (0.01% lifetime)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Windows: 1,850 visits, 82.37% (81.58% lifetime)
  • 80.27% XP
  • 13.89% Vista
  • 2.86% Server 2003
  • 2.49% 2000
  • 0.38% 98
  • 0.05% ME
  • 0.05% NT
• Mac: 354 visits, 15.76% (16.72% lifetime)
  • 60.45% Intel
  • 39.55% Power PC
• Linux: 29 visits, 1.29% (1.32% lifetime)
• Unknown: 5 visits, 0.22% (0.29% lifetime)
• iPod: 3 visits, 0.13% (0.02% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 2 visits, 0.09% (0.01% lifetime)
• iPhone: 2 visits, 0.09% (0.02% lifetime)
• PalmOS: 1 visit, 0.04% (0.01% lifetime)

TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS

• 1024 x 768: 724 visits, 32.24% (32.38% lifetime)
• 1280 x 1024: 467 visits, 20.79% (27.75% lifetime)
• 1280 x 800: 343 visits, 15.27% (12.71% lifetime)
• 1680 x 1050: 163 visits, 7.26% (4.39% lifetime)
• 1440 x 900: 157 visits, 6.99% (6.38% lifetime)

(totally subjective) TOP 8 ACTUAL SEARCH STRINGS (with some editorial comment)

• picture of a sholin ninja (Who? This guy?)
• ninja like force
• vomit-throat
• vanilla ice port st lucie (And his goat and wallaroo, too.)
• touch my monkey sprocket
• pole dancing workout centers in palm beach florida
• matthew fox inseam
• free pics of famines