State of the Riot - August 2008

Once more I present to you the monthly State of the Riot feature. For new players there’s some fun stuff in the keywords down the page.

With my return to the site coming in partway through July the bounce continues to lift the growth figures very nicely. Harder work to keep it going next month, especially as we appear to have reached the growth limits of the existing hardware. Fear not, new hardware is on its way.

Key Stats:

Visits: 115,226, up 20.03% from 95,998
Pageviews: 365,523, up 23.19% from 296,721
Absolute unique visitors: 43,857, up 17.82% from 37,223.

Housekeeping

While I’ve got you here a few house-keeping announcements. If you’re one of the thousands of Canberrans enjoying reading RiotACT perhaps you should consider supporting us? You can just make a donation

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If you have goods or services to advertise you could advertise with us.

Failing that Facebookers can just become a fan. We like fans.

A special thanks to our friends in the Canberra media community who appear to be making more of an effort to mention us when sourcing stories from here.

Fun stuff

So the 20 most read stories on RiotACT in August were:

1.) Google Street View – Canberra on the map
2.) 15y/o Girl dies in a Conder car crash
3.) Tess Ryan answers your questions
4.) Hamish and Andy’s Gravy Chip – Now available in stores?
5.) DFO Canberra Launches!!
6.) New DFO Fyshwick will make airport seem “Brand Depleted”
7.) Loss of a Canberran Icon
8.) An email interview with Tess Ryan – Independent Canberra Escort and Companion
9.) Debate on the Conder car crash
10.) Death at the Canberra Centre today 09/08/2008
11.) Attempted suicide in Isabella Plains standoff with Police
12.) Central Cafe (Gungahlin) – first impressions
13.) Do I deserve the bird?
14.) The return of Kate?
15.) Road accident witnesses sought
16.) Not at all safe for work (or the young) – the world of the other Tess Ryan, browsersnob.
17.) The other side of the story? Parkway bingle
18.) Death in Knox St Watson
19.) Being mean to Hummer drivers
20.) Glen Porritt a free man

And the hundred highest ranked search terms which brought people to RiotACT in July were:

1) riot act
2) riotact
3) the riot act
4) dfo canberra
5) the riotact
6) riot act canberra
7) pasquale barbaro
8) riotact canberra
9) www.the-riotact.com
10) mark parton
11) riot-act
12) todd carney
13) dfo fyshwick
14) wanniassa medical centre
15) the riot act canberra
16) the riot-act
17) dale seaman daramalan
18) contented soul act
19) abandoned buildings in canberra
20) canberra airport
21) gravy chip
22) canberra dfo
23) the-riotact.com
24) “the crooked fiddle band” “merry muse” august 2008
25) nyssa76 anissa
26) riot act act
27) limestone lizzy
28) impact records
29) gravy chips
30) dfo canberra map
31) hamish and andy gravy chips
32) fraser court
33) riot+act
34) hill climb data for cyclists black mountain canberra
35) danman
36) brew bar tuggeranong
37) erin molan
38) hargreaves gde
39) the basement belconnen
40) anu singh
41) flint restaurant
42) “identical strangers” “canberra” “band”
43) canberra computer fair
44) what to eat in dickson
45) best plumber canberra riotact
46) hollowmen abc
47) central cafe
48) central cafe gungahlin
49) canberra beer brewing hume
50) peter leonard
51) “lincoln hawkins”
52) bootcamp in canberra
53) plaka pizza
54) massage canberra
55) foskey staffer roland
56) hamish and andy gravy chip
57) grapevine voip
58) three mothers thai
59) +deano +”never buy” site:the-riotact.com
60) best restaurant in canberra
61) free canberra sms
62) yum cha deakin
63) act computer fairs 2008
64) menutree canberra
65) smiths gravy chips
66) “gavin massey” canberra
67) tonk system addict review
68) ha ha bar belconnen
69) car+accident+on+majura
70) corinbank
71) wasp’s nests
72) www.the-riotact.com.au
73) mig crash narrabundah
74) site:the-riotact.com
75) political donations in the act
76) “limestone lizzy”
77) riotact.com
78) smiths gravy chip
79) “tess ryan”
80) dickson tradies club
81) todd rohl gay
82) dickson noodle house
83) jess wright
84) soul bar woden
85) baker’s best
86) charnwood stabbed
87) saffron restaurant manuka
88) superbandaidgirl@hotmail.com
89) wasabi manuka
90) “the-riotact” and “smokers” and “vy” and “theatre”
91) wasabi dickson
92) “ghosts” “kurrajong”
93) burgman anglican college
94) hansel & gretel coffee
95) lantern room campbell canberra
96) mark parton blog
97) melbourne cup public holiday act
98) tania tominac
99) todd carney online forum
100) “gungahlin pool”

Also for all the nerds here’s the breakdown on web-broswers used to read us:

Internet Explorer 60.44%
Firefox 30.12%
Safari 7.64%
Opera 1.02%
Mozilla 0.39%

And operating systems:

1. Windows – 86.19%
2. Macintosh – 11.25%
3. Linux – 1.95%
4. iPhone – 0.24%
5. SymbianOS – 0.13%
6. iPod – 0.11%
8. Danger Hiptop – 0.02%
9. SunOS – 0.01
10. Playstation 3 – 0.01%

(There were also a views from a Nintendo Wii PalmOS, PSP and FreeBSD but too few to make the percentages).

Discuss….