Monthly Report – November 2015

This is finally it . . . November stats and it isn't January yet!  I have to say though, my furbabies don't come near me while I'm working on them.

Here is our latest summary:

Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Jan 2015	10,329	29,156	79,523	241,305	3.34 GB
Feb 2015	9,917	27,754	75,630	220,134	3.12 GB
Mar 2015	9,547	26,594	77,688	217,204	3.12 GB
Apr 2015	9,838	26,580	80,467	233,368	3.36 GB
May 2015	8,806	27,104	75,708	216,640	3.09 GB
Jun 2015	8,798	27,484	79,415	212,991	3.04 GB
Jul 2015	9,760	30,626	89,850	235,370	3.17 GB
Aug 2015	9,612	32,079	91,883	245,973	3.09 GB
Sep 2015	10,087	29,818	104,743	274,560	3.44 GB
Oct 2015	10,265	32,938	118,319	302,050	4.53 GB
Nov 2015	11,064	34,904	143,087	377,069	5.80 GB
Dec 2015	0	0	0	0	0
Total	108,023	325,037	1,016,313	2,776,664	39.10 GB

It is not as neaty and tidy as TomCat's, but thanks to the Puddy Tat, the graph is no longer the size of a postage stamp.  The numbers here are definitely going up, with November seeming to take right off.  I hope TomCat will comment on the direction of the stats.  I suspect with the holiday season upon us, things will slow down, but be prepared for more activity as the elections grow closer.

Data from November 2015:

Reported period	Month Nov 2015
First visit	01 Nov 2015 – 00:00
Last visit	30 Nov 2015 – 23:59
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	11,064	34,904 (3.15 visits/visitor)	143,087 (4.09 Pages/Visit)	377,069​ (10.8 Hits/Visit)	5.80 GB (174.27. KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			393,309	453,597	7.23 GB

Unfortunately, I was unable to reconcile October 2014 numbers from the Monthly Report for November 2014 to give you any meaningful data.

Here is our latest demographic data from Quantcast:

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:

Care2               3,458

Google             1,112

Stumbleupon      102

Google (Images)  76

Microsoft Bing      39

Yahoo!                 48

Compared to October 2015, all referral sources are down with the exception of Care2 which is up significantly again.  Thanks to JL for trying and succeeding to widen the distribution on Care2.   

Here are our top 15 commentators:

 jla (181)

Lynn Squance (168)

Joanne Dixon (161)

TomCat (151)

Edie (144)

Lona Goudswaard (119)

Pat B (98)

SoINeedAName (80)

Mitch D. (74)

Jim Phillips (64)

Vivian B. (36)

Patty (33)

Jerry Critter (25)

dave c (24)

Bonnie Lynn (13)

During September and October, the resident Big Mouth designation was shared by JL, Joanne Dixon, SoINeedAName and me, Lynn Squance as TomCat was ill.  TomCat increased his postings substantially through November and is back to posting daily.  Kudos TomCat for a spectacular return!

Kudos to JL for winning the Big Mouth Award for the 72,000th comment.

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The political campaign has definitely heated up much earlier than it normally has.  Whether you support Bernie, Hillary, or Martin, please base your arguments on the good things about your choice.  However, it’s open season (politically) on the Republican candidates.  They and the Republican Bubble Machine will be repeating so many lies so often that we’ll be hard pressed to keep repeating  the truths.  Of course as we have been seeing, Donald Trump and now Ted Cruz are taking insaniTEA to new heights.  Ben Carson is sinking into oblivion.  How so many of these Republican candidates can afford to stay afloat financially with poll numbers so low, I really don't know.  Expect little help from the media.  we will do our best to assist you, by exposing the lies and presenting the truths clearly.

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You make doing this job worth the effort!