William M. Hartnett

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 [...]

A massively overlooked milestone here at Hartnett HQ: The Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros lyrics post turned 1 last Sunday. That stupid thing attracted 13,147 page views in its first year, 24.8 percent of all traffic across the entire site during the same period. Slightly more than 94 percent of visits to the post arrived via Google. [...]

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 [...]

Same old, same old. Literally. All the same old posts remain the most popular. Visits were up 450 percent from the same period last year, uniques up 827 percent, page views up 51 percent, average page views down 73 percent and average time on site down 83 percent. The stats, then, from Google Analytics and [...]

Took the first half of the month off, didn’t do terribly much during the second half of the month, and the old world kept on spinning. Visits were up 275 percent from the same period last year, uniques up 469 percent and page views up 123 percent. The stats, then, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. [...]

Noticeable traffic bumps at the beginning and end of the month, and March 2008 page views were up 166 percent from the year before. Here are the stats, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. Lifetime stats start Feb. 13, 2007.

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More Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros: HBO version lyrics (July 20, 2007)
Finally, a Google Maps imagery [...]

Same old, same old. Busy at work = not much posting = inexplicably steady traffic. Here are the February stats, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. Lifetime stats start Feb. 13, 2007.

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More Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros: HBO version lyrics (July 20, 2007)
Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach [...]

Meant to include these geographic and referral details in yesterday’s self-congratulatory anniversary post. Enjoy.

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I am not, as it turns out, huge in Asia.

North and South America: 13,865 visits, 85.25%
Europe: 1,581 visits, 9.72%
Asia: 444 visits, 2.73%
Oceania: 255 visits, 1.57%
Unknown: 61 visits, 0.38%
Africa: 57 visits, 0.35%

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Not even in southeast Asia, which contributed 50 percent of my genes [...]

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 first birthday with a bunch of thoroughly unimpressive statistics. Here’s to even lazier adherence to and significantly greater indifference toward widely accepted rules of good blogging in year two!
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4,711 page [...]

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, [...]