State of the Riot - October 2008

[First filed: November 02, 2008 @ 12:14]

Well October just zoomed by.

Here’s our monthly review of where the site’s going and what people are coming here for. No DFO mania but some good pictures of the building collapse attracted a lot of attention.

Key Stats:

Visits: 137,448, up from 131,410
Pageviews: 408,557, up from 378,871
Absolute unique visitors: 53,439, up from 52,621

Housekeeping

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Fun stuff

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

1) Building collapse in Civic
2) Candidates’ websites – October 2008
3) A customer complaint at The Front
4) Liveblogging the election
5) To arms Rioters – Drive the Emos from Garema Place! (unless you are a Garema Place Emo, in which case prepare to repel boarders)
6) Witchhunts, accusations and open warfare ACT Liberals in chaos
7) Canberra Marist College on Lateline!
8) The cold light of morning – Or, where the Liberals went wrong
9) T-shirt slogans
10) Meredith Hunter to lead the Greens
11) ACT Election Candidates – How Low Will They Stoop?
12) Fire at DFO?
13) New gay bar for Woden
14) 23% counted, 49 votes in the final Molonglo seat
15) ACT Election decided…
16) Nutter of the Month – Graham Potts
17) What’s the deal with the burnt out buses near Holy Grail in Civic?
18) The cockroach pizza of Dominos Dickson
19) Pedal Power community forum – Some thoughts
20) Scott Alexander McDougall to plead not guilty to Downer Double murder

And the 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) riot act canberra
6) alistair coe
7) the riotact
8) graham potts
9) riotact canberra
10) www.the-riotact.com
11) the riot act canberra
12) dfo fyshwick
13) peter leonard
14) mark parton
15) impact records
16) the riot-act
17) the-riotact.com
18) riot-act
19) jessica wright
20) dfo
21) massage canberra
22) the-riotact
23) gershon report
24) thomas sorahan
25) hill climb data for cyclists black mountain canberra
26) act election candidates
27) norvan vogt
28) act election
29) cost of gde
30) zeirholz riotact
31) best restaurant in canberra
32) peter.blakely crying chapel
33) fast train sydney canberra
34) kitten and snake comic
35) menutree canberra
36) australian motorist party
37) mike jeffreys
38) riot act act
39) haunted canberra
40) canberra computer fair
41) andrea tokaji
42) election polling act
43) scott 24 hour results
44) taxi canberra
45) phillip medical centre
46) flint restaurant
47) wanniassa medical centre
48) fenner hall wiki
49) mil security receivership
50) hargreaves gde
51) canberra cabs
52) david heidelberg
53) frank pangallo
54) philip medical centre
55) best restaurants in canberra
56) canberra beer brewing hume
57) giulia jones deliberately
58) open day maconochie centre
59) iv change my mine i dont dislike cops i dislike people that can spell site:the-riotact.com
60) central cafe gungahlin
61) building collapse canberra
62) ginninderra falls
63) canberra building collapse
64) cigars canberra
65) haunted a.c.t
66) kenja
67) nyssa76 anissa
68) what to eat in dickson
69) “canberra community support”
70) act computer fairs 2008
71) smiths gravy chip
72) flint restaurant act
73) “the yowie man”
74) bimberi
75) good mechanic canberra
76) jamison markets
77) overheard quinn
78) motorcycle parking canberra
79) i-filed “the riotact”
80) sons of kyuss canberra
81) zed bartlett
82) actafl
83) canberra underground bunkers
84) darren churchill
85) mike+hettinger+election+advertisement
86) anu singh
87) can mugga tip take contaminated waste
88) “flames fitness” riotact
89) “gungahlin jets”
90) halloween pumpkins
91) hindmarsh drive closed news
92) mee sushi
93) canberra beats
94) vote for morgo
95) dfo canberra floor plan
96) mark parton idiot
97) adriano larobina
98) bootcamp in canberra
99) canberra weekend jobs
100) mark parton blog

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

Internet Explorer 57.83%
Firefox 30.79%
Safari 7.85%
Chrome 1.60%
Opera 1.20%

And operating systems:

1. Windows – 85.36%
2. Macintosh – 11.70%
3. Linux – 1.98%
4. iPhone – 0.52%
5. iPod – 0.11%
6. SymbianOS – 0.11%
7. SunOS – 0.05%
8. Danger Hiptop – 0.02%
9. Playstation 3 – 0.01%

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

Discuss….