Without cat pictures, aerial photos of newspaper buildings and links to people who can actually still be bothered to journo-blog, we would be totally dead in the water here at Hartnett headquarters. And yet July was our most-viewed month yet. Search engines, long tail and all that, eh? Visits up 297 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 404 percent, page views up 109 percent, average page views down 47 percent, time on site down 68 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. Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach (Jan. 15, 2008)
3. Stormpulse now appearing at The Palm Beach Post; Coming soon to a site near you? (July 19, 2008)
4. I iz a mayjer hakker (June 2, 2007)
5. Another sign of the times: Dying medium does story on dying medium (July 9, 2008)
6. Paper View Monday: The San Diego Union-Tribune (July 7, 2008)
7. NEW: Street View coverage of Palm Beach County. OLD: Aerial imagery captured 1,237 days ago. (June 10, 2008)
8. Playing with code-free Google Maps (April 4, 2007)
9. Hurricane season is really annoying (July 5, 2008)
10. Jobs. At newspaper. Jobs at newspapers. Newspaper jobs. (June 19, 2008)

TRAFFIC SUMMARY

• 3,834 visits (36,121 lifetime)
• 3,349 unique visitors (29,068 lifetime)
• 6,231 page views (69,503 lifetime)
• 1.63 average page views (1.92 lifetime)
• 1:08 average time on site (1:54 lifetime)
• 75.69% bounce rate (72.64% lifetime)
• 85.08% new visits (80.50% lifetime)
• 7.8 GB bandwidth used
• $3.89 AdSense earnings (July 31 only)

TRAFFIC SOURCES

• Search engines: 74.23% (63.57% lifetime)
• Referring sites: 18.94% (28.01% lifetime)
• Direct traffic: 6.83% (8.42% lifetime)

FEED SUBSCRIPTION SUMMARY

• 103 minimum (5 lifetime)
• 139 maximum (139 lifetime)
• 123 mean (67 lifetime)
• 124 median (67 lifetime)
• 124 mode (22 lifetime)

BROWSERS

• Firefox: 1,768 visits, 46.11% (45.96% lifetime)
  • 55.13% FF 2
  • 43.10% FF 3
  • 1.77% 1.5 and below
• Internet Explorer: 1,629 visits, 42.49% (43.91% lifetime)
  • 69.06% IE 7
  • 30.88% IE 6
  • 0.06% IE 5.5
• Safari: 375 visits, 9.78% (8.41% lifetime)
• Opera: 33 visits, 0.86% (0.77% lifetime)
• Mozilla: 22 visits, 0.58% (0.41% lifetime)
• Camino: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.20% lifetime)
• Konqueror: 2 visits, 0.05% (0.01% lifetime)
• Netscape: 1 visit, 0.03% (0.28% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 1 visit, 0.03% (0.02% lifetime)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Windows: 3,072 visits, 80.13% (81.20% lifetime)
  • 74.80% XP
  • 19.50% Vista
  • 3.22% Server 2003
  • 2.15% 2000
  • 0.26% 98
  • 0.07% CE
• Mac: 674 visits, 17.58% (16.96% lifetime)
  • 69.58% Intel
  • 30.42% Power PC
• Linux: 50 visits, 1.30% (1.23% lifetime)
• iPhone: 19 visits, 0.50% (0.18% lifetime)
• iPod: 11 visits, 0.29% (0.12% lifetime)
• Unknown: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.21% lifetime)
• Danger Hiptop: 2 visits, 0.05% (0.03% lifetime)
• Nintendo Wii: 2 visits, 0.05% (0.01% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 1 visit, 0.03% (0.02% lifetime)

TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS

• 1024 x 768: 1,090 visits, 28.43% (31.51% lifetime)
• 1280 x 1024: 748 visits, 19.51% (22.52% lifetime)
• 1280 x 800: 686 visits, 17.89% (15.76% lifetime)
• 1440 x 900: 377 visits, 9.83% (7.99% lifetime)
• 1680 x 1050: 258 visits, 6.73% (5.54% lifetime)