State of the Riot – September 2008

[First filed: October 01, 2008 @ 10:45]

You lot’s unquenchable thirst for the Riot experience saw our server pretty much saturated for most of the month. This was not good for our stats which only record successfully loaded pages.

DFO mania, however, brought in a lot of new readers and the new server sees us all set for a cracking October.

Key Stats:

Visits: 129,512, up 11.36% from 116,299
Pageviews: 370,711, down very slightly 0.43% from 372,322
Absolute unique visitors: 52,229, up 18.75% from 43,981. (and up overall from pre-return of johnboy 32,807 in June which is rather pleasing)

Other stats were bleeding the sort of red one expects when the server keeps throwing database errors. Better days to come.

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

Alternatively you could take out a premium subscription, and get the much sought after RiotACT pin.

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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 September were:

1.) DFO Canberra Launches!!
2.) Double murder in Downer
3.) DFO Canberra opens on Friday
4.) New DFO Fyshwick will make airport seem “Brand Depleted”
5.) No Man’s Land, or Where Prams Collide – The new DFO Canberra in Fyshwick.
6.) A nasty surprise – Kingston murder
7.) Lanyon pleas of forgiveness…
8.) Horrible ferret cruelty caught on video – good or bad thing?
9.) Blood runs free at WIN as Stanhope cronies take their pound of flesh
10.) Help get ‘hoons’ off the road
11.) Female Victim of Downer Murders Identified
12.) Nutter of the Month – Come on down Binnoski
13.) Exploring underground bunkers near Canberra
14.) Floriade Nightfest – a perspective
15.) “Awesome” driving by a Silver VN Commodore @ Chisholm…
16.) False Advertising by real estate agents
17.) 17 year old person of interest swabbed for Telopea murder
18.) The prison doors open…
19.) Not with those finger-prints mate – Sultans IDs its customers
20.) Does anybody know when the DFO in Fyshwick is going to open?

RiotACT would like to thank Canberra’s murderers and bargain hunters.

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

1.) dfo canberra
2.) riot act
3.) riotact
4.) the riot act
5.) dfo
6.) riot act canberra
7.) peter leonard
8.) the riotact
9.) dfo fyshwick
10.) www.the-riotact.com
11.) canberra dfo
12.) riotact canberra
13.) canberra underground bunkers
14.) mark parton
15.) alistair coe
16.) the riot act canberra
17.) “the crooked fiddle band” “merry muse” august 2008
18.) pasquale barbaro
19.) central cafe gungahlin
20.) impact records
21.) “mark parton”
22.) dfo canberra opening
23.) riot+act
24.) hill climb data for cyclists black mountain canberra
25.) riot-act
26.) superbandaidgirl@hotmail.com
27.) dfo canberra floor plan
28.) contented soul act
29.) james kirk street
30.) massage canberra
31.) central cafe
32.) dfo in canberra
33.) foskey staffer roland
34.) brew bar tuggeranong
35.) act computer fairs 2008
36.) dfo canberra map
37.) lanterne rooms
38.) the riot-act
39.) nyssa76 anissa
40.) www.the-riotact.com.au
41.) burgman anglican college
42.) “identical strangers” “canberra” “band”
43.) bimberi
44.) what to eat in dickson
45.) danman
46.) dfo act
47.) lanterne room canberra
48.) riotact.com
49.) fraser court kingston
50.) “kerri taranto”
51.) the-riotact.com
52.) dale seaman daramalan
53.) gravy chip
54.) kenja
55.) the basement belconnen
56.) tony de domenico
57.) riot act act
58.) “the-riotact” and “smokers” and “vy” and “theatre”
59.) canberra beer brewing hume
60.) erin molan
61.) best restaurant in canberra
62.) canberra cabs
63.) gravy chips
64.) monster trucks canberra
65.) the plex
66.) motorcycle parking canberra
67.) yum cha deakin
68.) soul bar woden
69.) tattoo shops in canberra
70.) troy williams
71.) julie tattersall
72.) kool keith canberra
73.) new government grocery website
74.) peter.blakely crying chapel
75.) “canberra community support”
76.) good mechanic riotact.com
77.) canberra motorsport supporters group
78.) canberra computer fair
79.) canberra weekend jobs
80.) arts in the city jorian gardner
81.) charcoal restaurant canberra
82.) llamafrog
83.) riot act bunnings
84.) anu singh
85.) if you’re unhappy with body corporate
86.) phillip medical centre
87.) wasabi manuka
88.) cooleman court refurbishment
89.) ha ha bar belconnen
90.) frank pangello
91.) nrma shares
92.) downer murder
93.) free canberra sms
94.) mike crowther
95.) uci world cup radio station canberra
96.) zeirholz riotact
97.) canberra airport plane take off
98.) dickson tradies club
99.) the weston club royals
100.) wedding reception venues canberra

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

Internet Explorer 60.23%
Firefox 29.16%
Safari 7.53%
Chrome 1.41%
Opera 0.91%

And operating systems:

1. Windows – 86.20%
2. Macintosh – 10.95%
3. Linux – 2.03%
4. iPhone – 0.41%
5. iPod – 0.13%
6. SymbianOS – 0.10%
8. Danger Hiptop – 0.03%
9. SunOS – 0.02%
10. Playstation 3 – 0.01%

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

Discuss….