State of the Riot – November 2008

So that was November

Here’s our monthly review of where the site’s going and what people are coming here for. A four day weekend at the start of the month did us no favours and there was a lack of elections, murders, retail outlet openings, or building collapses.

Well you can’t win them all.

Key Stats:

Visits: 119,713, down from 134,106
Pageviews: 349,716, down from 400,976
Absolute unique visitors: 44,668, down from 51,899

Housekeeping

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Fun stuff

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

1. 17 year old overdoses on heroin in one of canberra’s ‘regulated’ brothels
2. Racing connected Elkie Stuart wins Fashions in the Field, says other women need to return to “classic elegance”
3. Something big at Lyneham flats
4. Canberra Goss – The suspense is killing me
5. Is it legal for a truck with Tank Water on the side to fill up from the mains water supply
6. The sex industry comment wars rage on – Tess Ryan has her say
7. Tim the Lyneham stabbing victim speaks out, and sends in a picture of his wounds
8. Scott Alexander McDougall makes an impact in court
9. Margaret from Ainslie takes a stick to the CMC and Insatiable Banalities on Chief Minister’s talkback
10. Disputing a speeding fine
11. Rhiannon Leetham and the mouth of madness
12. And the winner is Stanhope!
13. McFatty Day?
14. Belconnen drug bust
15. ACT police seek help identifying speeding motorcyclists (240kph on the Parkway).
16. Jester Ball 2008 – In retrospect
17. Flame of The Week – VvV in defence of Elkie Stuart
18. How you say?
19. Big storm coming in
20. Inaction Buses.

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

1. riotact
2. riot act
3. the riot act
4. dfo canberra
5. the riotact
6. riot act canberra
7. alistair coe
8. jessica wright
9. the-riotact.com
10. kitten and snake comic
11. elkie stuart
12. scott alexander mcdougall
13. www.the-riotact.com
14. fiona patten
15. peter leonard
16. graham potts
17. canberra times peter frey editor
18. revolve hume
19. the riot act canberra
20. kenja
21. riotact canberra
22. hill climb data for cyclists black mountain canberra
23. dfo fyshwick
24. site:the-riotact.com zanzibar01
25. mee sushi
26. ginninderra falls
27. riot-act
28. haunted canberra
29. “the crooked fiddle band” “merry muse” august 2008
30. philip medical centre
31. wanniassa medical centre
32. asian groceries canberra
33. massage canberra
34. gershon report
35. flint restaurant act
36. act computer fairs 2008
37. fenner hall wiki
38. “rhiannon leetham”
39. the-riotact
40. club lime
41. anu singh
42. norvan vogt
43. the riot-act
44. “canberra community support”
45. jester ball canberra
46. mark parton
47. clea rose
48. mike+hettinger+election+advertisement
49. monash drive
50. scott 24 hour results
51. canberra australian made motorbike apparel
52. european wasps hotline canberra
53. mil security receivership
54. central cafe gungahlin
55. alistair coe young liberal
56. helen cross act
57. book club canberra
58. greenroom closing
59. westfield belconnen expansion plan
60. ferret cruelty
61. llamafrog
62. mark parton idiot
63. wasabi manuka
64. peter.blakely crying chapel
65. canberra melbourne cup day
66. motorist party
67. canberra weekend jobs
68. trash packs canberra
69. “monash drive” act
70. night club sex
71. steven doyle chief of staff
72. what to eat in dickson
73. open day maconochie centre
74. “andrea tokaji”
75. canberra rebels bikies
76. disabled parking canberra
77. overheard quinn
78. act firearms legislation – paintball
79. canberra cabs
80. david heidelberg
81. evatt dentist site:the-riotact.com
82. academy nightclub
83. guilia jones senator macdonald
84. impact records
85. delissio braddon
86. hang gliding canberra
87. rebels clubhouse canberra
88. christmas lunch canberra
89. justice refshauge
90. freestyle tattoo
91. tuesday night trivia act
92. giulia jones politics
93. poachers pantry
94. tattoo shops in canberra
95. canberra radio ratings
96. credit card surcharge
97. ginger and spice gungahlin
98. greyhound buses canberra goulbourn
99. adriano larobina
100. david palavi
101. griffin centre canberra
102. riot act act
103. actafl
104. delissio menu
105. ian warden riot act
106. trivia at dickson tradies
107. turkish grill tuggeranong’
108. woden valley community festival
109. glebe park canberra
110. jonathon reynolds
111. “air news” riotact
112. canberra times subscription offer
113. liberal party act+dragway
114. phillip medical centre
115. shanston steralise
116. steven doyle canberra liberals
117. woden artwork act
118. bimberi
119. female tattoo artist canberra
120. restaurant next to mooseheads + canberra
121. site:the-riotact.com “barons”
122. the riot-act’
123. degas canberra
124. steak and kidney pie
125. canberra kiting
126. soul bar woden
127. darren churchill
128. election polling act
129. gay sex canberra
130. street view canberra
131. the front lyneham
132. best restaurants in canberra
133. bootcamp in canberra
134. cotter dam expansion
135. dfo fyshwick canberra
136. edmund barton building brutalist
137. parking price in civic canberra
138. roller skates women’s
139. “the forum” city canberra
140. borders canberra
141. lanterne room campbell
142. the riotact david mcfadden
143. barryf site:http://the-riotact.com
144. canberra paintball
145. canberra plan
146. “bob page” marist
147. crazy chester canberra
148. hush lounge woden
149. ourhouse old parliament house
150. pots coriander
151. st edmunds college fire
152. it was that way when i got here
153. loadedog
154. movember
155. virgil99 riot act
156. canberra centre parking
157. pizza garage kingston
158. site:the-riotact.com gus’s cafe stripped
159. uci world cup radio station canberra
160. “lincoln hawkins”
161. lyneham stabbing
162. our dry cleaners canberra
163. shane mortimer
164. amber jane westin
165. charcoal restaurant canberra
166. hargreaves dui
167. images of mr terry snow- owner of canberra airport
168. lanterne rooms campbell – review
169. plastic bags act
170. steve pratt light rail
171. two sticks road
172. elvin group
173. firecrackers
174. happy 15th birthday phoenix canberra
175. lakeside belconnen
176. tess ryan
177. ttwbt
178. gym canberra
179. massey canberra melissa
180. site:the-riotact.com skidbladnir
181. taxi canberra
182. www.the-riotact.co
183. act teacher shortage
184. action bus photos
185. action buses down northbourne
186. canberra protest against vietnamese
187. free canberra sms
188. lantern campbell shops
189. massage civic
190. rhodium “june 2008”
191. canberra beats
192. canberra connect weekend
193. deakin swimming pool oasis
194. mark parton 106 rumour
195. stephen hillier
196. the riot act act
197. cafe deli marco
198. cit cooking
199. corroboree park function room
200. dickson noodle house
201. lanterne rooms
202. queanbeyan high school
203. renovator discount depot fyshwick
204. riotact act politics
205. the riot
206. “will huang”
207. 03 8341 4900
208. fast train sydney canberra
209. flint restaurant
210. scott mcdougall
211. trash and treasure canberra
212. frank pangallo right to choose
213. griffith vietnamese
214. hargreaves gde
215. haunted house at michelago
216. la pasa restaurant canberra
217. riot act, cheesecake
218. todd carney
219. canberra a-league
220. centrelink fraud
221. house of heroes
222. second hand sunday canberra
223. thomas sorahan
224. todd rohl canberra 2008
225. trivia night canberra
226. act statefocus
227. apk gungahlin
228. mark parton left 106
229. netspeed longreach internet review
230. pasquale barbaro
231. canberra fireworks
232. canberra livejournal
233. cornucopia bakery braddon
234. traffic infringement take it to court
235. “justice malcolm gray”
236. aussie junk
237. canberra pinball arcade
238. fireworks canberra
239. iga chapman
240. louise de domenico
241. pop the pot
242. site:http://the-riotact.com/ loans own homes
243. superb parrot murrumbateman
244. zeirholz riotact
245. australia canberra cpi rental 2008
246. booner canberra
247. byo corkage
248. canberra lizard
249. election wrap stamp duty
250. international zombie awareness day
251. menutree canberra
252. pink and black ball canberra
253. the ridge organic restaurant
254. “the hollowmen” +abc
255. “the yowie man”
256. canberra riot site
257. dralion
258. erin molan
259. how many does it take to change a lightbulb at narrabundah
260. italian erindale
261. jb hifi civic
262. marcus rudd
263. revolve better bits
264. right lane 2008 site:the-riotact.com
265. riotact cafepress
266. trackside 08
267. zed and the west wing
268. “alistair coe”
269. “helen cross”
270. buy fireworks canberra
271. canberra wifi hotspots
272. christmas lunch canberra 2008
273. danny ralph queanbeyan
274. moore street canberra art installation
275. scott 24
276. “riot act
277. abc news deadmandrinking
278. canberra goss
279. canberra tattoo
280. michelago haunted
281. richard mulcahy canberra party
282. shane rattenbury
283. state focus
284. u brew
285. “flames fitness” riotact
286. cafe ravello dickson
287. canberra computer fair
288. central cafe
289. paintball canberra
290. riot act act canberra
291. tralee
292. canberra brothels
293. canberra riot act
294. canberra secrets
295. canberra times home delivery of paper
296. cathedral parliament house
297. cirque du soleil canberra
298. e.l.k stencil art
299. lake george wind farm
300. meredith hunter
301. nrma shares
302. uc gym
303. www.kingsleyschicken.com
304. “jason parkinson”
305. “mick gentleman”
306. act motoring party
307. canberra parking
308. challenging speeding fines act
309. jamison markets
310. lanterne campbell
311. long stay parking canberra train station
312. mount ainslie
313. phenom penh belconnen
314. scumdorg close website
315. site:the-riotact.com “by of”
316. video ezy
317. wide boy jake
318. wind farm lake george
319. “caroline le couteur”
320. asian noodle house tuggeranong
321. australian american memorial canberra
322. bicycle bar crawl
323. david morgan liberal
324. deadmandrinking facebook
325. guerilla gardening canberra
326. judo canberra “hill family”
327. oktoberfest canberra racecourse
328. palavi
329. pink and black jester ball riot act
330. poac
331. red hill cafe riot act
332. the riotact canberra
333. alyssa pugh
334. fixmystreet the-riotact.com
335. hashemoto
336. haunted michelago
337. parking in civic
338. taxi services canberra
339. top students in canberra schools
340. “andrew barr” partner
341. “johnny oshana”
342. “trivia” quiz canberra
343. act riot
344. canberra highschools lightbulb
345. chloe dallimore
346. cisac pool + current
347. class a unit act strata management
348. i-filed “the riotact”
349. jessica goode
350. melbourn cup holiday nsw
351. mest hairdressers
352. moonies zed
353. oasis deakin
354. “mike desmond” riotact
355. abandoned buildings canberra
356. act red light camera
357. best brunch canberra
358. bushwalker missing canberra
359. corin forest snow
360. cotter dam, enlargement
361. deakin pool
362. dfo canberra hours
363. haunted a.c.t
364. monash drive canberra
365. new government grocery website
366. re opening the griffith library
367. swamiofswank
368. wireless broadband lyneham
369. act teacher mobility
370. can i get cash out when making a purchase on my visa credit card?
371. chapman iga
372. consolidated.builders.limited
373. defence hq bungendore stupid
374. doctoring images for the canberra times
375. justin de domenico
376. radonzeh
377. riotact blog
378. romantic dinner canberra
379. tania tominac
380. urban polaris forum
381. wholesale flowers canberra
382. woodstock riotact
383. “ian de landelles”
384. “riotact pty ltd”
385. allhones
386. andree stephens
387. cabin fever canberra the cashews
388. canberra pie awards 2008
389. canberra prison
390. cirque de soleil
391. julie sarah tattersall
392. lake george full of water
393. mike jeffreys
394. red hill lookout
395. richard mulcahy
396. riot act bbq western park
397. sultans nightclub
398. tharwa fair
399. wasabi canberra
400. zierholtz
401. “canberra arrows”
402. “identical strangers” “canberra” “band”
403. actpla
404. annie erindale
405. japanese restaurant canberra riotact
406. kingston family surgery
407. lanterne canberra review
408. my’s weston
409. pm&c offices canberra
410. radio ratings act
411. swimming lessons cisac
412. the-riot-act.com
413. wasps in roof
414. www.the-riotact.com.au
415. “barrel of monkeys” gig canberra
416. akuna st haircut
417. barbeques galore dfo
418. canberra massage
419. canberra mountain bike
420. canberra wireless internet
421. christmas day lunch canberra
422. commonwealth bridge site:the-riotact.com
423. dfo
424. downer murder
425. flint canberra
426. front lyneham
427. good mechanic canberra
428. good quiet pub civic canberra
429. ingeegoodbee riot act
430. kingston pizza
431. mark parton blog
432. molonglo land release
433. new shops in fyshwick
434. nightclub sex
435. peter leonard canberra
436. roller derby skates
437. shoes over powerlines
438. st john’s home goulburn
439. toys fyshwick
440. transact mobile phone how check spend
441. where to park free belconnen
442. young labor
443. “unit concepts” braddon
444. apk woden
445. cathy petocz
446. clea rose sentence
447. comet mcnaught site:the-riotact.com
448. cycle city lyneham
449. delissio braddon out in canberra
450. dickson college timetable
451. dralion review
452. jamison plaza food
453. lantern room campbell
454. mick gentleman abortion
455. pimp my police car
456. riotact act
457. ron knapp
458. “christian kerr” crikey
459. “grunge_hippy”
460. “hunters tavern” canberra
461. absinthe australia
462. bella vista canberra
463. chickens for sale
464. david morgan ad
465. dendy premium cinema
466. dominos dickson cockroach
467. elena kirschbaum battle
468. family and community day
469. haunted attics
470. humanities & science campus
471. ian bail
472. jonathon reynolds act
473. kool keith canberra
474. public service canberra pay
475. zierholz
476. “ben doherty” and the age
477. “king, the law and the mob”
478. “rate the plate”
479. allhomes website down
480. canberra bushfire information
481. canberra outdoor dining regulations
482. canberra strippers
483. dc registration plates embassy
484. dfo canberra floor plan
485. ginger spice gungahlin
486. infront hotel realm
487. janine cameron
488. john hargreaves thumper
489. magpie swooping time
490. michael cooney
491. mike hettinger gde
492. passport riot act
493. site:the-riotact.com asian noodle house in dickson laksa
494. site:the-riotact.com best pizza
495. summernats
496. triple j tuggeranong hill
497. trivia nights canberra
498. “clare carnell”
499. absinthe in australia
500. canberra brothel

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

Internet Explorer 56.44%
Firefox 31.39%
Safari 8.34%
Chrome 1.73%
Opera 1.22%

And operating systems:

1. Windows – 84.85%
2. Macintosh – 12.02%
3. Linux – 2.13%
4. iPhone – 0.59%
5. iPod – 0.12%
6. SymbianOS – 0.11%
7. SunOS – 0.03%
8. Playstation 3 – 0.02%
9. Danger Hiptop – 0.02%

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

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