Blog Statistics for July 2005

Just a quick update of the stats today...

Our standard counter is reading 1623 today, which means we had 521 since the end of May (I didn't include this number in the June statistical update for some reason). This breaks down into 47 unique visitors (34 first time and 13 return visitors), for an average of 6 visitors a day for the month of July (4 first time and 2 return).

The only new countries represented on the Geoloc map are Mexico and Germany (to the best of my knowledge - by the way you'll note that they have kept it active for me so I haven't had to remove it yet). This is added to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Switzerland, Hungary, Republic of Korea (i.e., South Korea), Uruguay, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Venezuela, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Turkey, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Ukraine, South Africa, Iran, India, the Philippines, and Japan - bringing the total to visitors from thirty-four different countries.

The popular entries this past month have been (in their order of popularity):

• Using Instant Messaging
• Is Online Learning the Future: Revisited
• Hybrid Virtual Schools: The Future is Today
• Teaching in a Virtual High School
• Why Teach Online?

The interesting thing is that some of these entries are from back in May, now if we could only get some of the more than dozen people who visited "Using Instant Messaging" to start leaving some comments... :)

In terms of how people are coming across this blog, Yahoo! is currently winning the search engine war, followed by Google, MSN, and Technorati bringing up the rear. Outside of search engines, it appears that people have come across us from http://del.icio.us/topps (and I'm not sure what that is), http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/04/virtual-high-school.html (an entry from another blog), http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/archives/2005_04.html (somewhere in Derek's blog), and http://www.durandus.com/blog/?p=132 (and an entry on Nate's blog). Thanks to Althouse, Derek, and Nate.

Finally, the average visitor will still spend less than 5 seconds, which more staying for in the 30 seconds to 5 minutes (and even 4 staying for longer than an hour). See you at the end of next month...