William M. Hartnett

It’s nearly mid-June, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for the February traffic report. Yes, it’s three months late. On the other hand, suck it. Overall, visits were up 118 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 128 percent, page views up 82 percent, average page views down 17 percent, time [...]

It’s nearly mid-March, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for the January traffic report. Yes, it’s five weeks late. On the other hand, suck it. Overall, visits were up 113 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 127 percent, page views up 78 percent, average page views down 16 percent, time [...]

Cut and pasted (and very slightly updated) out of last year’s one year of wmhartnett.com post: Things kicked off here at wmhartnett.com on Feb. 13, 2007, which can mean only one thing: A self-serving post to mark the site’s second birthday with a bunch of thoroughly unimpressive statistics. Here’s to even lazier adherence to and significantly [...]

Better late than never, right?. FeedBurner has been shambolic the past few months, so I’m no longer bothering with their feed subscription stats, which were confusing and opaque even in the best of times. Overall, visits were up 131 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 145 percent, page views up 86 percent, [...]

In my 2007 site stats report I vowed that in 2008 I would “adhere even more lazily to widely accepted rules of ‘good blogging’” by avoiding, among other things, comment-baiting lists and strict focus on a single topic. Mission accomplished. Look for to more of the same in 2009; No redesigns, not even a change [...]

Forget what I said last month, because November was our biggest month yet here at Hartnett Headquarters. I still have no idea why. Overall, visits were up 288 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 346 percent, page views up 167 percent, average page views down 31 percent, time on site down 51 [...]

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 [...]

I noticed some visitors on Microsoft corporate networks landing on my post about a little glitch in Live Search Maps and decided to have a look at which browsers and operating systems they used. It goes without saying that I’m not trying to make any broader points here. On the other hand, I just said [...]

I very nearly forgot to post the September site statistics, but not even forgetfulness, laziness and general indifference can stop the pointless review of meaningless statistics here at Hartnett HQ. Probably the only thing of even middling interest is the appearance of Google’s Chrome browser, which was introduced at the beginning of the month and [...]

Not much going on here at Hartnett headquarters in August, but I’ll get back in the saddle one of these days. Or not. Eh. Visits up 100 percent over the same period last year, uniques up 113 percent, page views up 64 percent, average page views down 18 percent, time on site down 33 percent. [...]