Blog Stats — May

Wow. The numbers speak for themselves this month. We crushed all our previous records:

91,989 pageviews, 29,019 visits, 10,948 unique visitors

Pageviews were up almost 40 percent over April, which had been a record itself.

Seven different days this month nearly eclipsed our previous pageviews-in-a-day record, set by the 7th-Grade Potheads on Feb. 7. One day this month managed the feat. With a whopping 5,010 pageviews, May 21 is our new all-time champ. Continued interest in the NorthPark shooting, Erika Nazem, and the new Chick-fil-A helped to drive traffic that day.

To see the top keyword searches and individual posts of the month,

Top keyword searches bringing people to the blog in May:

1. park cities people blog
2. park cities people
3. northpark mall shooting
4. park cities blog
5. barack blog park cities people charles
6. kersten rettig - dallas
7. american idol 2008 winner
8. blog park cities people
9. shooting at northpark mall
10. highland park shooting

The dearly departed Stephanie Hutson finished No. 13 on this list,  easily outpacing Merritt Patterson, who finished at No. 19.

Now, the most viewed individual posts of the month. (Remember that generally only posts with jumps or comments, or posts that get linked to through other blogs will show up, the way this is tracked):

1. /2008/05/16/shooting-at-northpark-mall/

2. /2008/05/04/parkie-mom-is-a-billionaire-girlfriend-and-reality-tv-star/

3. /2008/05/18/more-from-the-humble-parkie-mom/
4. /2008/05/17/re-shooting-at-northpark-mall-in-dallas/

5. /2008/05/13/dear-richardson-resident-amanda-tackett/

These were just about our most popular posts ever, in terms of how many pageviews they each attracted in this one month. Any of these five would have been the top post of nearly any previous month. That’s how we did so well in May — a lot of posts, even beyond these top 5, that drew much traffic and many comments to the blog.

Let’s aim for 100,000 pageviews in June.