2 November 2008

State of the Riot - September 2008

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[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.

If you have goods or services to advertise you can advertise with us.

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….

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Holden Caulfield1:30 pm 04 Oct 08

Cool, thanks for the reply.

No, nothing like it.

What you’re describing is the visits number which is 129,512

Holden Caulfield10:11 am 04 Oct 08

From a comment in the Stateline thread:

johnboy said :

From Google Analytics for the last month as of right now: Absolute unique visitors 52,101

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?

tylersmayhem8:47 am 03 Oct 08

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 😉

tylersmayhem1:40 pm 02 Oct 08

Hmmm, cheers for the low-down Al!

tylersmayhem: There’s a saying – when you write on the Internet, you’re never wrong for long.

Gungahlin Al12:44 pm 02 Oct 08

“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…

tylersmayhem11:53 am 02 Oct 08

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.

Deadmandrinking10:13 am 02 Oct 08

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.

Deadmandrinking9:53 am 02 Oct 08

Skidbladnir said :

Maelinar said :

As far as I read according to your list its actually the fifth, jerk is the fourth.

Maelinar, the derivative of position is velocity.
Position is the 0th derivative of position.

If position ‘ground’ floor, velocity is its first, etc, until you arrive at snap, the fourth floor.

We’ll just put this one down to the fact you are an Engineer.
Actually, I’m not, I just hang around with bunches of them from time to time, so need to understand what they’re on about to know when its time for them to buy me the next round.

I will say that I think you’re likely to work in Government, because you assumed you knew what you were talking about despite overlooking basic facts, and I’m having to resort to vastly inaccurate analogies to explain fundamental concepts to you.

But if you really want to make it personal…
Environment, is it?

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…

Why yes, yes you can.

Thanks for that.

Can I be the first to point out that there is no such month as Sepember???

tylersmayhem9:14 am 02 Oct 08

Whats better about Google Chrome? Does that mean it’s the “Shiny” internet JB 😉

Maelinar said :

As far as I read according to your list its actually the fifth, jerk is the fourth.

Maelinar, the derivative of position is velocity.
Position is the 0th derivative of position.

If position ‘ground’ floor, velocity is its first, etc, until you arrive at snap, the fourth floor.

We’ll just put this one down to the fact you are an Engineer.
Actually, I’m not, I just hang around with bunches of them from time to time, so need to understand what they’re on about to know when its time for them to buy me the next round.

I will say that I think you’re likely to work in Government, because you assumed you knew what you were talking about despite overlooking basic facts, and I’m having to resort to vastly inaccurate analogies to explain fundamental concepts to you.

But if you really want to make it personal…
Environment, is it?

Members, Position, Penetration, Jerk, Snap… hmmmm

Good thing this is a family friendly time “Slot”

Aurelius said :

I guessing that ‘position’ is the 0th

Now he’s on about ‘Position’.

What is it with Aurelius and his constant innuendoes?

We love all our readers, even the ones who think google is the internet.

^^ with google, if you enter theriotact.com into the search, it automatically sends you to this address.

The cursor bar (whatever its called) is already in the google search box as default when firefox is started.

Holden Caulfield10:00 pm 01 Oct 08

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

10.) http://www.the-riotact.com

I think these people need to learn how to use a web browser.

Hey, Aurelius said members (hehehe)

Maelinar,
I not an engineer, but I guessing that ‘position’ is the 0th, rather than the first.
Either that, or Skid counted wrong.

‘Snap’ is also the fourth derivative of position with relation to time, for engineering nerds.

(position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap)

As far as I read according to your list its actually the fifth, jerk is the fourth.

We’ll just put this one down to the fact you are an Engineer.

I like to think Rioters are more advanced than the average Canberran.

Vic Bitterman7:05 pm 01 Oct 08

Canberrans are an advanced lot…

RiotAct percentage using Google’s Chrome browser – 1.4%, compared to worldwide 0.74% (at time of posting!) : http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0

Not something we plan to report on regularly, but as a one off we’re currently at 5365 registered users.

JohnBoy
Do you have figures for members?
It might give us an idea of how many contributors the site has. And given the interactive nature, it should indicate the penetration of RA. (Yes Danman, I said it again)

Danman said :

Aurelius also said penetration (Giggles with hand on mouth)

*chuckle*

I know I am immature, but it was the ‘snap’ that really had me worried.

: )

HateMachine said :

No need to be a Sally Sensitive about it. All I’m saying is the Crimes is widely viewed as rubbish, there is a gap in the market for interesting political type pieces, and this site is perfectly poised to fill that gap. Think of the tip-off’s you could get.

Thought we were too tame?

We’ve been doing what we do for a few years now and are quite happy with how it’s working.

That’s not to say ideas aren’t welcome.

But if you want a certain type of story here we’re not stopping you writing them. We put that “Post an item” button there for a reason.

I remember ‘Uno’….

p1 said :

And me saying snap when my post was sequential to, and almost identical to, Davo111’s is kinda like saying snap when someone else puts down the same card in a game of snap…

Just seeing someone being forced to explain this makes me feel sooo old.

Aurelius also said penetration (Giggles with hand on mouth)

Skidbladnir said :

‘Snap’ is also the fourth derivative of position with relation to time, for engineering nerds.

(position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap)

This sounds vaguely rude to me.

; )

and me…. reading RA all day at work because, well, because it’s more interesting than my job 🙂

You’ve never played Snap????

Danman said :

I’d like to see the stats of how many visits are made by public servants on their lunchbreak…!

That would exclude me, I lurk all day between 200mg excel file queries

and me – between answering and quoting resellers, and learning new products from vendors.

‘Snap’ is also the fourth derivative of position with relation to time, for engineering nerds.

(position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap)

Ahhh, fair enough. Teh intarbez are a wide and varied place. 🙂

Ah, in that case I withdraw my remarks. I’ve only ever known ‘snap’ to mean ‘you just got pwned’, to use the parlance of our times.

While there is a difference between “tips” to be followed up, and stories to be posted, I guess I just thought they were pretty similar.

And me saying snap when my post was sequential to, and almost identical to, Davo111’s is kinda like saying snap when someone else puts down the same card in a game of snap…

Hate, presumably as RA gets greater penetration, the fact that users can submit stories would allow it to become a local ‘Crikey’ or similar.

p1 said :

And a ‘news/tipoffs’ button on the top of the page.

Perhaps you should try the “Post an Item” button. It performs that function admirably.

Saying ‘Snap’ to your own remarks is the equivalent of making kissy-kissy face at yourself at the mirror. And you totally miss the point, by the way.

johnboy said :

HateMachine said :

The title of this site is a grave misnomer. It should be http://www.the-wouldyoulikesomecamomileteaact.com

If this site is ever gonna be one of the greats for any reason other than mere longevity, it needs more of an agenda. Left/right i don’t care. And how about some hard hitting reporting/feature articles? And a ‘news/tipoffs’ button on the top of the page.

How’s about you go run a site like that and let us know how you go?

No need to be a Sally Sensitive about it. All I’m saying is the Crimes is widely viewed as rubbish, there is a gap in the market for interesting political type pieces, and this site is perfectly poised to fill that gap. Think of the tip-off’s you could get.

And a ‘news/tipoffs’ button on the top of the page.

Perhaps you should try the “Post an Item” button. It performs that function admirably.

HateMachine said :

And a ‘news/tipoffs’ button on the top of the page.

It’s called the “contact button” at the top of the page

A lot of government departments would have proxies on their IP or masked/hidden so you would get a lot of generic returns methinks. I dont really know that much about internet security to say a certain yes or no though.

fair enough. but shame, it would have been cool to know the breakdown!

HateMachine said :

The title of this site is a grave misnomer. It should be http://www.the-wouldyoulikesomecamomileteaact.com

If this site is ever gonna be one of the greats for any reason other than mere longevity, it needs more of an agenda. Left/right i don’t care. And how about some hard hitting reporting/feature articles? And a ‘news/tipoffs’ button on the top of the page.

How’s about you go run a site like that and let us know how you go?

Davo111 said :

Can that be check through an ISP breakdown? and yes, that would be interesting!

Perhaps, but not the sort of information we can share.

The title of this site is a grave misnomer. It should be http://www.the-wouldyoulikesomecamomileteaact.com

If this site is ever gonna be one of the greats for any reason other than mere longevity, it needs more of an agenda. Left/right i don’t care. And how about some hard hitting reporting/feature articles? And a ‘news/tipoffs’ button on the top of the page.

But the reaction to disclosure would probably kill the medium.

Mr Waffle said :

I’d like to see the stats of how many visits are made by public servants on their lunchbreak…!

Can that be check through an ISP breakdown? and yes, that would be interesting!

google rank has more to do with sites linking to us, content on the page being thoroughly gamed quite some time ago.

Sponsors get in the sponsor box for a year plus an allowance of the “Zone 1” ads at the top of the page.

Zone 1 ads are sold on the basis of ad impressions, we well those in blocks of 10,000.

With stats like those, DFO’s website staff are probably green with envy.

Mind you, continually publishing the “we’re highest ranked for the following terms” posts means you’re even more highly ranked for those terms, so long as your Google ‘value’ remains high.

Other things:

Your major demographic(s) are only paying attention on weekdays, with Sundays seeing your lowest attention levels. This is roughly an inversion of the Canberra Times.

Also, do your advertisers pay for days of ad exposure, total number of ad exposures, seconds of eyeball exposure, pageviews, pageseconds, or just a flat ongoing fee?

I’d like to see the stats of how many visits are made by public servants on their lunchbreak…!

That would exclude me, I lurk all day between 200mg excel file queries

Kramer said :

WOW! RiotACT taken out of #1 search term for the first time by DFO Canberra!!

Murderers and bargain hunters make the world go round.

Joe Canberran1:44 pm 01 Oct 08

Mr Waffle said :

I’d like to see the stats of how many visits are made by public servants on their lunchbreak…!

That’s the “Internet Explorer 60.23%” isn’t it? 🙂

WOW! RiotACT taken out of #1 search term for the first time by DFO Canberra!!

I’d like to see the stats of how many visits are made by public servants on their lunchbreak…!

I was about to ask what a “8. Danger Hiptop – 0.03%” was, then I decided to just search it myself. Turns out its a phone of sorts.

Thats all good, anyone stalking me is wasting their time, I can guarantee that Nyssa is more than liklely a finer specimen than me…and thats only going on from the shoulders up!

Hat full of danman spanners anyone :)~~

The stalker likes Nyssa slightly better I’m afraid, Danman!

*chuckle*

Your stalker is too lazy to do anything but google…

53.) gravy chip
63.) gravy chips

mmmm, hungry…

What is with me and Nyssa making the list every time ?

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