State of the Riot – January 2009

[First filed: February 02, 2009 @ 09:43]

So that’s January dispensed with.

Here’s our monthly review of where the site’s going and what people are coming here for. January is traditionally a slow month so we’re very happy to have had a good one, readership’s well up on December and even November.

Key Stats:

Visits: 124,736, up from 116,095
Pageviews: 366,517, up from 323,107
Absolute unique visitors: 49,679, up from 49,286

Housekeeping:

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Fun stuff:

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

1) The DIY Summernats reportage
2) What’s the worst thing you’ve seen a diplomat doing?
3) What do we know about the Yamba Drive flooding deaths
4) Michelago Ghost House Photo
5) Child porn enthusiast bleats about periodic detention
6) Bad Kids down south
7) Dog’s On Leads
8) The accused Downer Murderer and me
9) GDE Users, Unite!
10) Flame of the week – In defence of Chic Henry
11) Men on top of the Belconnen Remand Centre
12) The Causeway behind the railway… Does it exist???
13) What am I getting into at Kambah pool?
14) Building a freak bike with the Rat Patrol
15) Rudd Labor to sack 35000 public servants?
16) User reviews of Three mobile broadband?
17) Australia Day Eve Concert
18) It’s on. The World Naked Bike Ride is coming to Canberra
19) Summernats ends badly (well for us at lest)
20) Learner Drivers on the Highways?

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

1) riotact
2) riot act
3) the riot act
4) riot act canberra
5) the riotact
6) dfo canberra
7) freetv
8) the-riotact
9) christmas lights canberra
10) plum jam recipe
11) corinbank
12) steve pratt site:.the-riotact.com
13) riotact canberra
14) canberra christmas lights
15) wanniassa medical centre
16) joel z750 youtube
17) kenja
18) pho phu quoc menu
19) orphan magazine
20) whoop whoop
21) cit hairdressing
22) wasabi manuka
23) anu singh
24) shane mortimer
25) soul bar woden
26) jessica wright
27) danman riotact
28) 2009 calendars
29) charnwood stabbing
30) jester ball canberra
31) forde dog park
32) grag giralang
33) www.the-riotact.com
34) ginninderra falls
35) riot-act
36) act ikea delivery service
37) borders canberra
38) canberra centre parking
39) degas canberra
40) ginninderra creek murder
41) tattoo canberra
42) eat fyshwick
43) afp officer child pornography
44) canberra australian made motorbike apparel
45) fenner hall wiki
46) hill climb data for cyclists black mountain
47) canberra
48) mooseheads fight
49) todd carney
50) “monash drive” act
51) peter leonard
52) fireworks canberra
53) canberra rebels bikies
54) westfield belconnen expansion plan
55) gershon report
56) shitarium
57) actbus.net
58) alistair coe
59) braidwood bakery
60) deakin swimming
61) immigration bridge
62) sarah daphne foo
63) the riot act canberra
64) weston park
65) yarralumla nursery cafe
66) crazy chester canberra
67) griffin centre
68) riot act act
69) snippity gungahlin closed
70) european wasps hotline canberra
71) pasquale barbaro
72) emma rainforth
73) henry’s anger canberra
74) the-riotact.com
75) european wasps canberra
76) “christian kerr” crikey
77) griffin centre canberra
78) lake george wind farm
79) susan winburn
80) the riot-act
81) todd rohl canberra
82) trackside 08
83) burlesque courses canberra
84) canberra cabs
85) flint restaurant
86) canberra speedway racing
87) dvaey riotact
88) hail canberra
89) review the magic flute street theatre
90) woden valley community festival
91) “canberra community support”
92) charcoal restaurant canberra
93) riotact kitchens
94) kippax fair drug related
95) national portrait gallery
96) adsl2 rim gungahlin
97) canberra australia day concert 2009
98) canberra fireworks
99) haunted canberra
100) mraact

For all the nerds here’s the breakdown on web-browsers used to read us:

Internet Explorer 54.45%
Firefox 32.75%
Safari 8.34%
Chrome 1.91%
Opera 1.46%

And operating systems:

1. Windows – 85.17%
2. Macintosh – 11.76%
3. Linux – 1.93%
4. iPhone – 0.61%
5. iPod – 0.17%
6. SymbianOS – 0.11%
7. Danger Hiptop – 0.05%
8. Playstation3 – 0.01%
9. SunOS – 0.01%
10. Playstation Portable – 0.01%

(There were also a few visits from the Nintendo Wii, PalmOS and Android and BSDs but too few to make the percentages. Also our first ever two hits from the Android platform!).