October was our biggest month yet here at Hartnett Headquarters. How? Why? I have no idea. Overall, visits were up 155 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 194 percent, page views up 97 percent, average page views down 23 percent, time on site down 52 percent. On to the stats from Google Analytics and Feedburner. Lifetime counts start Feb. 13, 2007.

TOP 10 POSTS

1. More Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros: HBO version lyrics (July 20, 2007)
2. That right there is a map labeling fail (Oct. 15, 2008)
3. Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach (Jan. 15, 2008)
4. Bird’s eye view party at my house; No one’s invited (Dec. 30, 2007)
5. Another big moving day at the office (Oct. 3, 2008)
6. Rice twin feels void with brother’s loss (Nov. 7, 2005)
7. Latest YouTube find: Stupidly fast cars with a heavy dose of Futura (July 25, 2007)
8. Job opening: Get your computer-assisted reporting on in Orlando (Oct. 7, 2008)
9. Broken breaking news: Zoning meeting relocated! Mid-level bureaucrat tasked with middling new responsibilities! Land-use plan available for comment! (Oct. 1, 2008)
10. Probably the best map ever made (March 15, 2008)

TRAFFIC SUMMARY

• 4,235 visits (48,105 lifetime)
• 3,833 unique visitors (39,536 lifetime)
• 6,348 page views (87,592 lifetime)
• 1.50 average page views (1.82 lifetime)
• 0:55 average time on site (1:41 lifetime)
• 78.58% bounce rate (74.23% lifetime)
• 88.57% new visits (82.14% lifetime)
• 7.8 GB bandwidth used
• $15.24 AdSense earnings

TRAFFIC SOURCES

• Search engines: 67.60% (66.48% lifetime)
• Referring sites: 20.14% (25.05% lifetime)
• Direct traffic: 12.26% (8.47% lifetime)

FEED SUBSCRIPTION SUMMARY

• 105 minimum (5 lifetime)
• 136 maximum (141 lifetime)
• 118 mean (76 lifetime)
• 117 median (79 lifetime)
• 117 mode (113 lifetime)

BROWSERS

• Internet Explorer: 1,833 visits, 43.28% (43.73% lifetime)
  • 71.79% IE 7
  • 25.53% IE 6
  • 2.51% IE 8
  • 0.16% IE 5.5
• Firefox: 1,809 visits, 42.72% (45.26% lifetime)
  • 79.60% FF 3
  • 19.57% FF 2
  • 0.83% FF 1.5 and below
• Safari: 436 visits, 10.30% (8.89% lifetime)
• Chrome: 92 visits, 2.17% (0.43% lifetime)
• Opera: 40 visits, 0.94% (0.79% lifetime)
• Mozilla: 18 visits, 0.42% (0.45% lifetime)
• Camino: 2 visits, 0.05% (0.16% lifetime)
• SeaMonkey: 2 visits, 0.05% (0.01% lifetime)
• Netscape: 1 visit, 0.02% (0.22%)
• Playstation 3: 1 visit, 0.02% (0.02% lifetime)
• Samsung-SGH-I617: 1 visit, 0.02% (0.01% lifetime)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Windows: 3,406 visits, 80.43% (80.90% lifetime)
  • 68.94% XP
  • 27.28% Vista
  • 2.41% Server 2003
  • 1.00% 2000
  • 0.18% 98
  • 0.09% ME
  • 0.06% CE
  • 0.03% 95
  • 0.03% NT
• Mac: 734 visits, 17.33% (17.16% lifetime)
  • 76.02% Intel
  • 23.98% Power PC
• Linux: 49 visits, 1.16% (1.22% lifetime)
• iPhone: 31 visits, 0.73% (0.29% lifetime)
• iPod: 6 visits, 0.14% (0.11% lifetime)
• Unknown: 3 visits, 0.07% (0.22% lifetime)
• Danger Hiptop: 3 visits, 0.07% (0.03% lifetime)
• FreeBSD: 1 visit, 0.02% (0.01% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 1 visit, 0.02% (0.02% lifetime)
• SymbianOS: 1 visit, 0.02% (<0.00% lifetime)

TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS

• 1024 x 768: 1,186 visits, 28.00% (30.66% lifetime)
• 1280 x 800: 904 visits, 21.35% (17.08% lifetime)
• 1280 x 1024: 730 visits, 17.24% (21.41% lifetime)
• 1440 x 900: 378 visits, 8.93% (8.33% lifetime)
• 1680 x 1050: 373 visits, 8.81% (6.03% lifetime)