Well, it's the start of a new month, so it's time to browse through the server logs again to come up with the list of the top most popular pages on this site from last month. There were no surprises - everything on the list had made it before, though there was a bit of shuffling around. The MBT Shoes entry still maintained its lead over the Autogyro History & Theory page.

My surge in traffic has dwindled a bit. I still had significantly more traffic in April than before the surge began, but less than in the previous 3 months.

Anyway, here's the top 10 list for April:

1. Blog - A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
2. Autogyro History & Theory
3. Blog - Casio EX-F1 - First Impression of the High Speed Video
4. Blog - Response to Anti-Liberal Article by Gary Hubbell
5. Blog - Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
6. Blog - Book Review - Voyage of the Beagle
7. Blog - Running AutoCAD R14 in XP Pro 64
8. Blog - Ray Comfort - Still Ignorant on Evolution
9. Blog - The Texas Republican Platform, or Why I'm Not a Republican
10. Blog - My Favorite Airplanes

Posted by Jeff on Friday, May 6 | Permalink | Comments (27) | TrackBacks (0)

It's time for the monthly update to the top 10 list. But first, a quick note about a small update to a page. Prodded by a blog comment, I revisited one of the factoids on the page, Factoids Debunked & Verified, Part V. The particular factoid was "Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere." The commenter added that "it is claimed in 1909 to be the first highway mile paved with concrete." Go read that page to find out whether those factoids are true or not.

I was a bit surprised this month. My Autogyro History & Theory page had been the most popular page on my site ever since I first published it back when this site was still hosted on my college account. This month, for the first time ever, not just one, but two pages have exceeded the autogyro page in views - the blog entries, A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes and My Favorite Airplanes. It's not that the autogyro page has gotten less traffic, but that those pages are getting more.

My popular pages are actually spread pretty evenly over when I wrote them. The top 10 list this month has 3 blog entries from 2007, 1 from 2008, 3 from 2009, and 2 from 2010, along with the autogyro page. So far, nothing I've written in 2011 has made the list. Maybe I'm not writing as well anymore, or maybe it's just taking time for enough people to link to those pages to get the traffic coming in.

My total monthly traffic just keeps going up and up. I wonder if this blog finally is getting popular, or if spammers are just all of a sudden getting more prolific. Anyone else out there with a blog care to comment?

Anyway, here's the top 10 list for March:

1. Blog - A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
2. Blog - My Favorite Airplanes
3. Autogyro History & Theory
4. Blog - Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
5. Blog - Running AutoCAD R14 in XP Pro 64
6. Blog - Excel 2010 - Fixing a Slow Solver, XP 64
7. Blog - Letter to Pharmacy about MBT Shoes
8. Blog - Response to Anti-Liberal Article by Gary Hubbell
9. Blog - Casio EX-F1 - First Impression of the High Speed Video
10. Blog - Book Review - Voyage of the Beagle

Posted by Jeff on Friday, Apr 1 | Permalink | Comments (27) | TrackBacks (0)

Once again, it's time to look through the server logs. As far as total traffic, it's still increasing. I didn't have as many total hits in February as in January, but considering that February only has 28 days compared to January's 31, the average visits was a little higher.

As far as the most popular pages, one page made the list that hadn't before, and it wasn't even a new entry - Excel 2010 - Fixing a Slow Solver, XP 64. To tell the truth, I like seeing these types of entries becoming popular, knowing that I'm helping people out. The entry on Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles? is becoming increasingly popular. It's had that third place spot quite a few times now, and appears to be closing the gap on the entry on MBT Shoes. I wouldn't be surprised to see it become the second most popular page on this site (though it still has a ways to go to catch up to my autogyro essay).

As an aside, since there's no better place to put it, and since it's not worth an entry of its own, I'm still trying to write at least one substantive entry per week. These top 10 lists, not being very substantive, don't count. And I want to do more than the Friday posts for my new series, Book Review - God- or Gorilla?, because I don't want this blog to become so narrowly focused. I did manage to write something new this week, but didn't publish it until today (it will appear shortly after this post). I'll try not to do that in the future. My new goal is a substantive post early in the week, and the God or Gorilla post on Friday, to keep things spaced out a little more evenly. I'm not making any promises, though. If I have a particularly busy week at work and have to cut my lunch breaks short, then you'll just have to settle for an entry from the series.

I'll also note that, after 5 years of doing this, I've finally set up scheduled posting. The previous post was the first to be posted that way, and this post and the next are the second and third (because when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail). Hopefully it ends up being a useful feature.

Anyway, here are the top 10 pages from February:

1. Autogyro History & Theory
2. Blog - A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
3. Blog - Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
4. Blog - My Favorite Airplanes
5. Blog - Letter to Pharmacy about MBT Shoes
6. Blog - Ray Comfort - Still Ignorant on Evolution
7. Blog - Excel 2010 - Fixing a Slow Solver, XP 64
8. Blog - Casio EX-F1 - First Impression of the High Speed Video
9. Blog - Running AutoCAD R14 in XP Pro 64
10. Blog - Book Review - Voyage of the Beagle

Posted by Jeff on Friday, Mar 4 | Permalink | Comments (30) | TrackBacks (0)

I've had my look through the server logs for the past month. Last month, I'd mentioned that it looked like my traffic had plateaued. Well, the total visits to my site increased roughly 10% since last month. Maybe my site has finally hit some critical mass, and it's getting forwarded and forwarded to all the countless masses who just can't wait to read my pearls of wisdom on evolution, politics, and religion. Or maybe the spammers are just getting more prolific (I had 524 junked comments in the past 24 hour).

As far as what pages were most popular, they're all pages that have made the list before. Here were the top 10 pages on this site during January:

1. Autogyro History & Theory
2. Blog - A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
3. Blog - Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
4. Blog - My Favorite Airplanes
5. Blog - Running AutoCAD R14 in XP Pro 64
6. Programming
7. Blog - Ray Comfort - Still Ignorant on Evolution
8. Blog - Response to Anti-Liberal Article by Gary Hubbell
9. Blog - Letter to Pharmacy about MBT Shoes
10. Blog - The Texas Republican Platform, or Why I'm Not a Republican

Posted by Jeff on Friday, Feb 4 | Permalink | Comments (26) | TrackBacks (0)

I've updated my blogroll. A few of the sites that haven't updated for a while, or that only update very irregularly, were moved to a new inactive section (I didn't want to delete them completely in case they ever start posting regularly again). These blogs include TerrapinTables, Greg Richter's Idea Dumpster, Pooflingers Anonymous, and Confessions of an Anonymous Coward.

Mostly offsetting those deletions, there are a few new blogs I've started reading regularly, so I've added them. These blogs include The Digital Cuttlefish, Dinosaur Tracking Blog, and Sandwalk.

Posted by Jeff on Tuesday, Jan 11 | Permalink | Comments (26) | TrackBacks (0)