Blog Facts part 2

On June 4th of 2007, we announced that we’d crossed the 1 million hit threshold for 2007 (see prior post “1 million hit milestone for 2007” June 4-07), with 25,000 unique visitors by that point in the year. Readers had come from 533 cities in 57 different countries over the prior 30 days (May 5-June 4, 2007). Daily readership came in around 600 at that point in 2007.

For 2008 year, up until that day in June (see prior post “Blog facts” June 5-08), we’d enjoyed 2.2 million hits, about 50,000 unique visitors, with daily readership peaking at 3,000 between the folks who get it via Feedburner, internet browsing, or plain old subscribers (see the button to the right).

As of earlier this month, we’ve crossed the 6 million hit threshold year-to-date. A 100% increase versus 2007.

For the humour of it, Google Analytics reports visitors from 5,923 different cities in 152 countries during 2008: our top 5 visiting nations are Canada, U.S.A., U.K., India and Germany (replacing Australia in the #5 slot).

The top five topics by readership were: 1) you know who, 2) Dick Fuld, former CEO of Lehman Brothers, 3) Bell Mobility threatening to turn off the GPS in your RIM, 4) Lehman Brothers and 5) our breaking news regarding the Bear Stearns bankruptcy rumour (beating Bloomberg and Reuters).

A sincere thanks again this year to everyone who stops by from time to time. You are a tolerant and generous bunch, and the fact that you waste a bit of time each day here is, well, flattering even if inexplicable.

Happy holidays and Best of the New Year.

MRM