I just can’t be bothered to bloviate much these days, as I’ve simply been too busy, you know, working. At work. Remarkably, the world and our industry has somehow managed to carry on. A lesson I sincerely hope we all might learn some day. Visits up 314 percent from the same period last year, uniques up 465 percent, page views up 94 percent, average page views down 53 percent and average time on site down 76 percent. The stats, then, 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. NEW: Street View coverage of Palm Beach County. OLD: Aerial imagery captured 1,237 days ago. (June 10, 2008)
3. Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach (Jan. 15, 2008)
4. What’s been going on at work lately? (June 25, 2008)
5. Just thinking happy thoughts and junk like that (June 25, 2008)
6. Now: Solve problems, fill needs, get jobs done. Later: Be cool. (June 4, 2008)
7. Jobs. At newspaper. Jobs at newspapers. Newspaper jobs. (June 19, 2008)
8. Introducing Backyard Post: Real-world neighborhoods as the foundation for a reappraisal of what a local newspaper should be (March 26, 2008)
9. This is a totally awesome picture of the only vehicle and type of behavior fit for a true American patriot (June 8, 2008)
10. The unwanted home-delivered free weekly newspaper: Worse than famine, war, hair loss (Jan. 23, 2008)

TRAFFIC SUMMARY

• 3,648 visits (32,287 lifetime)
• 3,150 unique visitors (25,809 lifetime)
• 5,910 page views (63,272 lifetime)
• 1.62 average page views (1.96 lifetime)
• 1:11 average time on site (1:59 lifetime)
• 74.95% bounce rate (72.28% lifetime)
• 84.38% new visits (79.96% lifetime)
• 5.2 GB bandwidth usage

FEED SUBSCRIPTION SUMMARY

• 98 minimum (5 lifetime)
• 131 maximum (131 lifetime)
• 117 mean (63 lifetime)
• 117 median (61 lifetime)
• 128 mode (22 lifetime)

BROWSERS

• Internet Explorer: 1,656 visits, 45.39% (44.08% lifetime)
  • 66.73% IE 7
  • 33.21% IE 6
  • 0.06% IE 8
• Firefox: 1,577 visits, 43.23% (45.94% lifetime)
  • 77.81% FF 2
  • 20.16% FF 3
  • 2.03% FF 1.5 and below
• Safari: 358 visits, 9.81% (8.24% lifetime)
• Opera: 23 visits, 0.63% (0.76% lifetime)
• Mozilla: 21 visits, 0.57% (0.39% lifetime)
• Netscape: 7 visits, 0.19% (0.31% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.02% lifetime)
• Unknown: 1 visit, 0.03% (<0.00% lifetime)
• Camino: 1 visit, 0.03% (0.21% lifetime)
• Samsung-SGH-I617: 1 visit, 0.03% (<0.00% lifetime)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Windows: 2,903 visits, 79.58% (81.33% lifetime)
  • 78.19% XP
  • 16.74% Vista
  • 2.86% Server 2003
  • 1.79% 2000
  • 0.24% 98
  • 0.14% CE
  • 0.03% ME
• Mac: 686 visits, 18.80% (16.89% lifetime)
  • 67.49% Intel
  • 32.51% Power PC
• Linux: 32 visits, 0.88% (1.22% lifetime)
• iPhone: 10 visits, 0.27% (0.15% lifetime)
• iPod: 6 visits, 0.16% (0.10% lifetime)
• Unknown: 5 visits, 0.14% (0.23% lifetime)
• Danger Hiptop: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.02% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.02% lifetime)

TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS

• 1024 x 768: 1,070 visits, 29.33% (31.87% lifetime)
• 1280 x 1024: 689 visits, 18.89% (22.88% lifetime)
• 1280 x 800: 669 visits, 18.34% (15.50% lifetime)
• 1440 x 900: 328 visits, 8.99% (7.77% lifetime)
• 1680 x 1050: 289 visits, 7.10% (5.40% lifetime)

(totally subjective) TOP 5 ACTUAL SEARCH STRINGS

• kangaroo skinning machine
• lee abrams must die
• nourishment of ostriches
• what’s killing us today?
• why my cat delivered someone else’s house?