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October 2, 2008

Blog Notes

Further to our marking of the 10 millionth Sitemeter visit a few days ago, I thought I'd share a little more information on the traffic here at SDA. This data comes directly from the server.

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Try looking for that information on other self-described "leading" Canadian blogs and news aggregators.

You won't find it.

Posted by Kate at October 2, 2008 12:41 AM
Comments

Hey...I have at least 500 uniques a day...unless I get a link from SDA...You spoil my average Kate.

Posted by: Jay Currie at October 2, 2008 12:55 AM

Kate, you suck!

Zero visitors in November and December 2008, my, how the mighty have fallen!

I guess your blog just tanked after the Dion and Obama media onslaught, eh?

Posted by: PiperPaul at October 2, 2008 1:05 AM

Total Unique Visitors - what portion are media orgs ?

Posted by: ron in kelowna at October 2, 2008 1:05 AM

Remind me what the hell was happening in April that we were so hepped up about.

Posted by: kelly at October 2, 2008 1:09 AM

Kate

You obviously misunderstand the nuances associated with the terms "leading" and "premiere". The subelty required to pull these assertions off with a straight face are both complex and counterintuitive.

One would think that unadulterated BS is easy but BS is in fact hard.

Kicking Ass is even harder but exponentially rewarding in relation to the amount of BS dished.

Syncro

p.s. Keep trying and one day you might be up there with the big dogs......it may require a lobotomy but if you aren't willing to sacrifice for your art, don't fill out the subsidy form.

Syncro

Posted by: syncrodox at October 2, 2008 1:25 AM

Wow. And I thought I set my record yesterday (2000 hits in one day). Clearly, I have some catching up to do! ;-)

Posted by: The Trusty Tory at October 2, 2008 1:25 AM

syncrodox :

Anyone who uses nuances or nuance in a sentence these days is just another devotee to their own ego‘s or self generated conspiracies, or worse a self inflated puffin. Usually folks like you who hide behind distain seem to be the greenest with envy.

As for your Blog, how should I put this delicately?
It must eat you like cancer your absolute insignificance. Its like being Charlie Brown sending out Valentines all night to all, only to receive none in return.

Great stats. Kate. As I have said before the Varity & high tone classy approach you employ with wit. Loaded with relevant real time information, is what makes your blog so unbeaten. This guy represents that pinnacle of accomplishment, because when you are high-quality, inevitably the green eyed people start to loathe you.

Posted by: Revnant Dream at October 2, 2008 2:22 AM

Revnant Dream, are you racist towards green-eyed people?

Posted by: PiperPaul at October 2, 2008 3:00 AM

Hey Revnant, thanks to your little exchange with Syncro, I just paid my first visit to his Blog. Some of it is a bit sophomoric but most of it is funny as hell. You're too tough on the young lad (at least I assume that Syncro is a young lad.)

What's with the Syncro-Kate hostility? Is that an "in" thing with which I'm not familiar?

Posted by: Zog at October 2, 2008 3:11 AM

Hey come one I think I had 5 unique visits...

Last month ;)

I gave in, I have learned I aint no writer, or at least one that people want to read.

Posted by: the bear at October 2, 2008 6:37 AM

Lesson to posters: Sarcasm is not that hard to detect if you remove stick from betwixt buttocks first.

Posted by: Yukon Gold at October 2, 2008 6:47 AM

My uniques in Sept were over 120,000, thanks in part to over 20,000 from a link from Malkin. That is triple what they were this time last year.

Usually I am 100,000 uniques a month according to Sitemeter, which they say is always a bit off.

Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at October 2, 2008 6:58 AM

All I know is that I get a daily visit from the CHRC, actually multiple daily visits. That tells me at least one of 2 things.

1) I am the next CHRC Victim
2) CHRC staff are at least as sophomoric as I

Posted by: Blazingcatfur at October 2, 2008 8:34 AM

RD

Try and laugh a little...YG makes me laugh.

Anyways...gotta go to work....Hallmark is a tough organization and Valentines day is fast approaching.

Syncro

Posted by: syncrodox at October 2, 2008 8:39 AM

I only ever get visits from SDA, and half of them are trolls mad at me for telling them off. My poor wee blog is loooonly! ~:D

Posted by: The Phantom at October 2, 2008 8:47 AM

RD, you need to flesh out your reading comprehension skills a bit. Syncrodox was laughing with Kate, not at her.

Posted by: Sean at October 2, 2008 9:41 AM


Good Job Kate,,,,,,, I can almost see you running for Office one day fighting the Socialist Liberals on all Political Levels and rallying against the Trumpet Puppets who comprise the Biased Media.
,

Posted by: Ratt at October 2, 2008 9:41 AM

LOVE it!!!!

Posted by: Coralee at October 2, 2008 10:23 AM

Good Job Kate. I for one have enjoyed your view on all of life. You use the common sense approach. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Merle Underwood at October 2, 2008 10:31 AM

I put that on mine once in a while but I'd never call my blog leading. ;)

usually "little"


You the man, Kate errr,...

from my lil blog,

Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
Jan 2008 10997 21787 75475 278098 5.88 GB
Feb 2008 13644 24670 78496 317078 6.39 GB
Mar 2008 14291 25093 83927 294373 6.50 GB
Apr 2008 14516 25537 81910 325172 6.67 GB
May 2008 16353 31267 106075 374156 8.47 GB
Jun 2008 20024 36383 143007 437773 9.29 GB
Jul 2008 19821 34383 125016 413226 8.50 GB
Aug 2008 45536 63126 227274 1131744 16.90 GB
Sep 2008 23026 38809 147342 579557 11.62 GB
Oct 2008 1259 1442 5051 22119 407.14 MB

Month
Unique visitors, Number of visits, Pages, Hits, Bandwidth
my
Total 179467 302497 1073573 4173296 80.62 GB
Kate's

Total 801577 3139312 8534644 49345319 694.39 GB


heh in many categories I'm a little more than 1/10th the blog sda is woo hoo!

I'm 1/10th "the" leading blog! Woo hoo!

:)

Ok so I get excited about little things. Now if I was "kicked arse" I could compare my hits with Kate's number of visitors,....

Now how many of my hits are traffic from SDA, god bless the open threads!

Posted by: dinosaur at October 2, 2008 10:34 AM

Nary a day goes by without a visit; requisite distraction... and the communities outstanding.

" it may require a lobotomy but if you aren't willing to sacrifice for your art, don't fill out the subsidy form " hehe!

~regards

Posted by: esin at October 2, 2008 12:40 PM

I like your blog too dino! ;)

Must admit wish I had more time to visit all the blogs that are worthy of a daily read, but just can't, must eat and sleep too 'ya know.

Congrats Kate and all thoughtful ones who contribute here daily, a must check site for moi.

:)

Posted by: ldd at October 2, 2008 12:51 PM

"I like your blog too dino! ;)"

Tnx I'd like to point out categorically I'm "not a leader" though, even though I do have an aggregator,

Should have thought of that line for my first post.

:)

Posted by: dinosaur at October 2, 2008 1:39 PM

I've always been puzzled by the fact that various "top blogs" lists never seem to explain what the criteria are for the rankings. They do give numbers, though, and these numbers show that blogs with lower readership rank higher than going-concern, influential, active blogs with higher readership.

Now I know why they don't explain: it's obviously a very arcane, subjective science that's just too complicated to explain. It's like figure skating, or Boxing matches held in Vegas.

*cough cough*

Posted by: EBD at October 2, 2008 2:17 PM

...somewhere out there, in the great vast expanse of Internet surfing, someone will undoubtedly stumble across my website.

;-)

Posted by: tomax7 at October 2, 2008 8:20 PM

EDB

The leftard ranking system for blogs is indeed arcane and nuanced. Fundamentally it is too hard to be explained to the great unwashed and best left to the likes of Christy Clark, Warren Kinsella and the like.

Zog

Sophomoric or stone stupid is my aim, thanks for noticing. As far as I'm aware there is no Syncro-Kate hostility....I have the greatest respect for Kate and her work on this site. A breathe of sane and intelligent air in an information age that seems to be dominated by leftist smug.

While I have never personally met Kate, I have had occasion to communicate with her via e-mail and on her site regarding current events and find Kate to exactly what you see on SDA. Integrity personified.

And finally, being 45 going on 18 I am a young fella! Thanks for dropping by my humble blog.

Sean

Exactly.


Revnant Dream

I think what we have here is a failure to communicate. I can understand how you may have misinterpreted my intent. That said, my default setting has a range from sarcasm through snotty with occasional stops at sardonic and sane.

Well, maybe not sane. I hope this clarifies my perspective.

Syncro

p.s. Actually one of my eyes are blue, the other one doesn't work due to the cataract and the retinal detachment. Rigs are dangerous places and I let my guard down. My bad.

P.p.s I've got to go....I have a date with the little red headed girl. I hope she shows this time;)

Posted by: syncrodox at October 2, 2008 9:24 PM

why aren't you running a Google Adsense ad? I make about $10/1000 visitors on my site with them.

Posted by: Don Uthole at October 4, 2008 5:01 PM
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