January 1, 2005

14.5 Million Pages Served

The final stats are in and HobbsOnline served up 14.5 million pages to readers in 2004. On average, the site had 30,000 unique visitors every month. The blog's single most-viewed category archive was my archive of Voter Fraud news, the most comprehensive of its kind online, viewed 51,731 times. The second most-viewed archive was my rather lengthy collection of "Was Bush AWOL?" news and commentary, accessed 17,728 times. RatherGate had a little something to do with that.

The single most-read post was Because I Could, my deconstruction of a Maureen Dowd column, posted June 21st and read 16,104 times. In descending order, the rest of my ten most-read posts in 2004 were:

John Kerry: Let's Play Defense - March 16, read 15,342 times
Credit Where Credit Is Due - December 7, read 14,268 times
Memogate: Fake But Accurate Fake AND False! - September 17, read 13,380 times
August 11 Nashville Radio Broadcast Hints Democrats Knew of Coming Memos - September 15, read 9,527 times
Iraq In Pictures - August 11, read 9,119 times
Citizen-Powered News - April 19, read 8,206 times
Help Me Spot Election Fraud - September 29, read 7,678 times
I Was Right - and Way Ahead of Big Media - February 11, read 7,468 times
ANWR To Be Opened Sideways - April 1, read 6,921 times.

My least-read post of 2004 was this one, posted March 17 and read just 204 times - which is a good indicator of why my plans for a multi-contributor blog dedicated to cycling didn't meet with success.

One caveat about the stats: those indicate how many times the post's individual page was accessed via the permalink, and does not include the number of times the post was read by the reader scrolling the homepage

Thanks for reading!