Blog Stats — June

That wasn’t so bad. I had thought that our monster month in May, along with the beginning of the summer vacation season, would result in us seeing a little bit of a drop in our numbers in June. It did, but it still qualifies as our second-biggest month ever in almost all the metrics:

70,866 pageviews, 23,712 visits, 7,273 unique visitors

Our biggest day of the month was June 25, with 3,946 pageviews. The most popular posts that day were Merritt’s battle with a fellow motorist and the mysterious Beverly book club.

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

Top keyword searches bringing people to the blog in June:

1. park cites people blog
2. park cities blog
3. i heart gawker
4. merritt patterson
5. barack blog park cities people charles
6. park cities people
7. university park pool hours
8. “sandra crenshaw”
9. orangecup
10. fishing derby caruth park

As you can see, Merritt has made a resurgence onto this list. And this is not just a few people searching for her in name in engines. It took a couple hundred to land her at No. 4 on the list. Miles, I’m sure Merritt appreciates all your efforts.

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. /2008/06/05/showin-it-all-at-the-pool-not-always-cool
2. /2008/06/23/mad-at-the-bible-belt/
3. /2008/06/25/assault-at-the-university-park-pool/
4. /2008/06/23/someone-bears-false-witness-to-merritt/
5. /2008/06/09/one-of-my-craigslisters-makes-contact/