Nearly 90,000 people (and probably a few automated web-crawling spiders) dropped by this blog at least once in the month of September. To each and every one of you – Thanks! That's a big jump from August's traffic, when the number of unique visits was just under 75,000. (Note: A “unique visitor” is my favourite Web traffic measure, rather than hits or page views. If you came here once or a thousand times in one month, that counts as just one 'unique visit'. It's the best way, it seems to me, to get a sense of that actual number of eyeballs that are lookin' in here.) The low-water mark in terms of traffic was sleepy July — just over 70,000 — while it was busiest all through the spring, peaking at more than 121,000 monthly visitors here in April.
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So what were all those who visited last month looking at? Here are September's most popular posts, ranked by the number of page views. Their original publishing date is in brackets:
- Tory bloggers howl for heads to roll over puffins (Tue 09 Sep 2008 12:16 PM EDT)
- Hey – those gol' darn Tories is makin' fun of me! (Tue 09 Sep 2008 06:30 PM EDT)
- Dueling Web sites: Scandals and leadership (Tue 09 Sep 2008 05:51 AM EDT)
- Did Harper blame bureaucrats for Ritz leak? (Thu 18 Sep 2008 03:38 PM EDT)
- Dion angling for a spot in history he likely doesn't want (Fri 26 Sep 2008 06:02 PM EDT)
- Go head and say it, Prime Minster: You want a majority (Tue 16 Sep 2008 09:08 PM EDT)
- Mercedes' SmartCar (Thu 20 Jan 2005 01:03 PM EST)
- Conservatives react to Ritz: Not. (Fri 19 Sep 2008 09:08 AM EDT)
- 22 Minutes' Geri Hall gets handcuffed for having a crush on Harper! (Fri 12 Sep 2008 01:20 PM EDT)
- F-35 – Test Flight (Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:07 PM EST)
- Bloggers 1, MSM 0 (Thu 04 Sep 2008 07:53 PM EDT)
- This ain't right. Find the idiots who did this … (Mon 01 Sep 2008 09:01 PM EDT)
- Abortion comes to the campaign (Mon 29 Sep 2008 01:04 PM EDT)
- A new use for the BlackBerry (Fri 19 Sep 2008 12:42 PM EDT)
- Puffin poop and NPR: The U.S. takes notice! (Tue 16 Sep 2008 12:52 PM EDT)
- CEOs, economists say carbon tax is fine; Harper, Layton say it ain't (Thu 11 Sep 2008 09:08 PM EDT)
- First MP of the 40th Parliament elected! (Sun 14 Sep 2008 08:29 AM EDT)
- Harper unplugged (Sat 20 Sep 2008 08:54 PM EDT)
- A reality check on the daycare fight (Tue 09 Sep 2008 10:02 AM EDT)
- How much does the middle class make? (Mon 05 Dec 2005 07:58 PM EST
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