[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
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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….
Cool, thanks for the reply.
No, nothing like it.
What you’re describing is the visits number which is 129,512
From a comment in the Stateline thread:
johnboy said :
I’m not familiar with Google Analytics, but know a little about StatCounter (a WordPress plug in). With GA, does the term “Absolute unique visitors” mean just what it says, or is it like StatCounter where you can define a time frame for unique visits, which ranges from every visit, to a maximum of 24 hours? That is, with StatCounter one person could visit the site once a day every day of the month and that would count as 30 unique visits to the monthly total.
Position is the first word
Velocity is the second word
Acceleration is the third word
Jerk is the fourth word
Snap is the fifth word
According to your list its actually the fifth word, jerk is the fourth. You never stated that the first word didn’t exist either just to be a pedant (therefore its not 0), for it to exist it must be a 1.
No offence intended bud – and thanks for the reference, I wasn’t even aware I was over there with them on account of I was on the 4RAR rotation (as far as I knew) – yes my name does appear on the list that Skid provided.
As far as that blemish on this planet goes, I trust the admins will delete his vapid comments accordingly as they are untruthful, spiteful and unwarranted.
tylersmayhem, well duh….
but seriously, how pathetics can a person be to stalk someone on the internet?
How can people keep tabs on you on the web Nyssa? That’s a shocker!
I wish JB would stop stalking me ;P
peterh, I know exactly what you mean. Those people truly have no life check out Australia 13 for a perfect example.
if you want to see stalking in its finest, check out one of the yahoo messenger local rooms. these people have no life, and will chase you down every blasted day or hour to catch up with you.
last check I did, I had 35 offline messages when i logged in.
at least here you don’t have that kind of weirdo.
i think 😉
Danman, in my case it’s just some pathetic loser trying to keep tabs on me.
You can be flattered :P~
Looks like I have the same affliction then eh Nyssa ?
Personally I’m complimented 🙂
Jokes aside, I’ve already stated before that someone is ‘stalking’ me via the net…I’d name them but I have class 😉
Hmmm, cheers for the low-down Al!
tylersmayhem: There’s a saying – when you write on the Internet, you’re never wrong for long.
“Whats better about Google Chrome?”
Gone back to FF myself. We use Google Apps and Gmail for all GCC email traffic but Gmail’s standard interface is so bug ugly. The FF add-on Better Gmail 2 fixes a lot of Gmail’s problems and is quicker to use.
Then there’s Chrome’s horrible MS Office 2007 washed-out-light-blue…
Can I be the first to point out that there is no such month as Sepember???
Where does it say “Sepember” other than in Madman’s post?
@DMD: Regarding your last post, it’s distressing to see yet another Person who reminds me clearly of the annoying tosser out of The Princess Bride.
Maybe I’m stalking Nyssa who is stalking me ?
*considering writing a Nyssa/Danman stalking fanfic*
i’m sure it could incorporate a trip to the DFO for hot chips and gravy…
help me. I’m bored.
I was trying not to defend him. I didn’t know medals gave you an instant authority on every subject under the sun.
There goes trying to satirize him too. I guess you can never grasp the real thing.
His medal? There -was- a Timor service medal.
He actually shows up in this book here:
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vCPmD-xND6cC&printsec=frontcover
(and it says exactly when and how long he was there for)
You might not like him, but you don’t need to defend him. Bad defenders make problems worse.
Skidbladnir said :
Wait Skid, I can do this…I’ve had some experience with this kind of argument…*rubs hands*
Skid, I would address your points, but I don’t have the time to count muffins whilst dialing the President of Tunisia with a dead fish. You can see from my high level of intellect that I can confuse you with my metaphors, like the bear said to the pope at the wash-basin. Would you like to see my C.V.? I have a C.V. This one time, at army camp, I got a medal. Do you have a medal?
I would waste my time further with you, but I’m afraid I have to go back to writing this very important document *in english* and back to the bar, where I will wait for you to come so I can give you a black eye. I have mighty fists. Would you like to see my mighty fists and my C.V.?
The Maelinar has spoken…