Outside the Beltway

March 2004 Stats and Referrers

James Joyner · Thursday, April 1, 2004 · 2 comments

OTB set a new monthly traffic record, by the slightest of margins, in March. My host shows me with 66,914 unique visits, 165,538 page views, and 402,862 hits. This beat February by a little over 2000 visits but actually substantially fewer page views and hits. While March is, of course, three days longer, I had the frenzy over the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime show and a minor InstaLanche substantially inflating my February stats.

Strangely, neither of my most popular posts, based on entry pages, was written in March. Easily the most popular–after a long hiatus from the list, was August 2003’s BRITNEY SPEARS TOPLESS with the aforementioned SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW from February coming in a distant second.

The month’s top weblog referrers:

ScrappleFace ~1500
PoliBlog ~900
CalPundit* ~500
Daniel W. Drezner 425+
Wizbang 425+
The Big Picture 400+
blogoSFERICS 375+
Dean’s World 350+
Command Post ~350
National Security Blog 325+
Common Sense and Wonder 300+
Political Wire 275+
VodkaPundit ~275
Insults Unpunished ~275
Zygote Design 250+
The Hedgehog Report 250+
Baseball Musings 225+
Ipse Dixit 225+
Asymmetrical Information ~225
Possumblog 200+
Signifying Nothing 200+
Asymptomatic 200+
The Bemusement Park 200+

These sites will be enshrined in the left sidebar until displaced by the April list. Thanks to all.

*The links were from Kevin’s old site, but I’ve pointed the hyperlink to the new location.