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Seeing as it’s not just the end of a month, it’s the end of a year (and a decade, for that matter), I’m going to take a post to show how things went in 2009:

• Search engines provided 126,886 hits this year — 51% of total traffic. Referring sites provided about 41%.
• StumbleUpon was by far the biggest referrer, with 84,000 hits giving about 84% of referring site traffic.
• The most searched-for keyword was “funny google searches”, with 11,000 visits. The post that those terms refer to has only been around for half the year, so you can get an idea how much more on top it could be. 3 of the top 5 involve college dorm necessities, and the last is about Fantastic Contraption solutions.
• The five top posts of this year, based on hits: The Top 35 Web Design Galleries (47,600 hits, 14.96% of traffic), 108 College Dorm Necessities (34,600 hits, 10.9%), Freeing up Hard Drive Space in Vista (24,400 hits, 7.7%), Funny Google Searches (20,600 hits, 6.5%), and 50 Fantastic Contraption Solutions (15,900 hits, 5%)
• 90% of visitors are new, and about 86% leave after loading one page (which is common with blogs).
• In the beginning part of the year, referral traffic built the most of my views, but as the year goes on, you can see search traffic bring more stable traffic.
• February was my best month, but the traffic wasn’t consistent. Things picked up in the summer, and have been a bit more consistent since then.

And how about December?

December overall wasn’t a great month, but then again I barely posted so my hopes weren’t too high. Nothing too amazing happened, though I did notice an interesting pattern where traffic dropped sharply every Saturday.

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