Outside the Beltway

June 2004 Stats and Referrers

James Joyner · Sunday, July 4, 2004 · 1 comment

After last month’s incredible surge in traffic, mostly from search engine referrals, my string of record setting months ended. Still, June 2004 was easily my second biggest month ever, with 254,522 unique visits, 470,860 page views, and 1,880,397 hits. According to SiteMeter, I had slightly more than 240,000 unique visits. Once again, the traffic was heavily increased by search engine and blog referrals for videos and other coverage of the beheadings of Paul Johnson, Kim Sun-Il, Robert Jacob, and Paul Berg. There was also quite a bit of interest in my posts on Ronald Reagan and the book Imperial Hubris.

Interesting aside: Looking through my Blogosphere category archives for something, I stumbled upon this post from Steven Taylor dated July 2, 2003–almost one year ago to the day. OTB’s traffic is now comparable to what several sites in the top ten of the TTLB Ecosystem were getting then. The explosive growth in overall traffic in the blogosphere is stunning.

Below are the top weblog referrers to OTB for the month of June. They’ll be honored on the left sidebar for the next month:

Backcountry Conservative 10,500+
InstaPundit 7200+
Wizbang 3300+
Hot Abercrombie Chick 3150+
Hugh Hewitt 3000+
PoliBlog 1800+
Professor Bainbridge 1800+
VodkaPundit 1200+
ScrappleFace 1100+
Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire 1100+
Michelle Malkin 850+
One Hand Clapping 600+

Thanks to all the visitors and linkers.