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		<title>Talk Playstation 2008 stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just thought i&#8217;d post some numbers with regards to Talk Playstation in 2008. Keeping in mind that the blog went live at the end of March last year so it hasn&#8217;t really had a full year yet. I use Google Analytics to track my web stats as i find it most reliable and best of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just thought i&#8217;d post some numbers with regards to Talk Playstation in 2008. Keeping in mind that the blog went live at the end of March last year so it hasn&#8217;t really had a full year yet.</p>
<p>I use Google Analytics to track my web stats as i find it most reliable and best of all FREE! So, the below stats are from March 08 until December 31st 08.</p>
<p><strong>Visits</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>691,878 Visits</li>
<li>1,002,373 Pageviews</li>
<li>1.45 Pages/Visit</li>
<li>515,945 Absolute Unique Visitors</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Browsers and Screen config</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Firefox 312,944 (45.23%)</li>
<li>Internet Explorer 270,309 (39.07%)</li>
</ul>
<p>Looks like Firefox is gaining or if not already overtaken Internet Explorer in the browser market share. Here&#8217;s an interesting one:-</p>
<p>In third place was the Sony Playstation 3, maybe because it&#8217;s a Playstation website? It even beat Apple&#8217;s Safari. (Playstation 3 40,081 (5.79%))</p>
<ul>
<li>1024&#215;768 174,817 (25.27%)</li>
<li>1280&#215;1024 161,160 (23.29%)</li>
<li>1280&#215;800 119,074 (17.21%)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Operating System</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Windows 591,923 (85.55%)</li>
<li>Macintosh 45,935 (6.64%)</li>
<li>Playstation 3 40,081 (5.79%)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Countries</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>United States 288,173</li>
<li>United Kingdom 108,060</li>
<li>Canada 49,060</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Top Traffic Sources</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>n4g.com (referral) 200,777 (29.02%)</li>
<li>google (organic) 195,018 (28.19%)</li>
<li>(direct) ((none)) 126,267 (18.25%)</li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;m rather happy with the above stats, i&#8217;m hoping the year 2009 will take things to the next level. I&#8217;m currently looking at a site re-design as i think it needs one.</p>
<p>Talk Playstation has gone a long way in such a short time, the site currently has around 5 authors working on it, they work brilliantly hard to keep the site up to date.</p>
<p>Anyway, lets wait and see what happens.</p>
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		<title>Blog Stats: July 2008</title>
		<link>http://daparky.com/blog-stats-july-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[monthly blog stats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[daparky.com From 1st July 2008 until 31sth July 2008: Visitors 2,914 Visits (2,716 Absolute Unique Visitors) 5,162 Page Views Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today) 10 (June average: 12) Bandwidth Transfered: 911.2 Meg talkplaystation.com Visitors 125,597 (94,808 Absolute Unique Visitors) 184,678 Page Views Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>daparky.com</strong></span></h2>
<p>From 1st July 2008  until 31sth July 2008:</p>
<p><strong>Visitors</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>2,914 Visits (2,716 Absolute Unique Visitors)</li>
<li>5,162 Page Views</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Subscribers</strong> (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)</p>
<ul>
<li>10 (June average: 12)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 911.2 Meg</p>
<h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>talkplaystation.com</strong></span></h2>
<p><strong>Visitors</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>125,597 (94,808 Absolute Unique Visitors)</li>
<li>184,678 Page Views</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Subscribers</strong> (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)</p>
<ul>
<li>192 (June average: 168)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 161.06 Gig</p>
<h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary</span></h2>
<p>Daparky.com has pretty much stayed the same with slight increase in visitors not much though. Talk playstation on the other hand has gone up once again from 102,786 visits to 125,597 visits. This time last month the subscriber count was 151, it is now 192. Transfer bandwidth stayed the same.</p>
<p>Lets see what August brings us.</p>
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		<title>Blog Stats: June 2008</title>
		<link>http://daparky.com/blog-stats-june-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[daparky.com From 1st June 2008 until 30th June 2008: Visitors 2,912 Visits (2,747 Absolute Unique Visitors) 4,840 Page Views Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today) 13 (June average: 10) Bandwidth Transfered: 1004.75 Meg talkplaystation.com Visitors 102,786 Visits (84,376 Absolute Unique Visitors) 147,434 Page Views Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>daparky.com</strong></span></h2>
<p>From 1st June 2008  until 30th June 2008:</p>
<p><strong>Visitors</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>2,912 Visits (2,747 Absolute Unique Visitors)</li>
<li>4,840 Page Views</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Subscribers</strong> (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)</p>
<ul>
<li>13 (June average: 10)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 1004.75 Meg</p>
<h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>talkplaystation.com</strong></span></h2>
<p><strong>Visitors</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>102,786 Visits (84,376 Absolute Unique Visitors)</li>
<li>147,434 Page Views</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Subscribers</strong> (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)</p>
<ul>
<li>151 (June average: 87)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 161.77 Gig</p>
<p>The stats went up for both sites especially talk playstation with the stats doubling up. The bandwidth talk playstation uses is quite large and my server never went down at all, 100% uptime.</p>
<p>Lets see if we can keep it up for next month.</p>
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		<title>Massive jump in search engine referrals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago talk playstation received just under 3000 keyword searched via search engines. This is a massive jump thansk to Google&#8217;s quick indexing methods. It will probably go down today though because the keywords were for an update to the playstation network. At least this will help close down on that souce [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of days ago talk playstation received just under 3000 keyword searched via search engines. This is a massive jump thansk to Google&#8217;s quick indexing methods.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/keywords.jpg" rel="lightbox[272]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-273" title="keywords" src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/keywords-500x72.jpg" alt="jump in keywords" width="500" height="72" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It will probably go down today though because the keywords were for an update to the playstation network.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">At least this will help close down on that <a href="http://daparky.com/closing-down-on-that-traffic-source-split/" target="_blank">souce split i spoke</a> about a month ago. In a months time i will post what the source split currently is but i can say at the moment that the traffic source split is fair and is just what i wanted.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I have set myself <a href="http://daparky.com/my-goals-for-july-1/" target="_blank">some goals</a> for talk playstation and will reveal on July 1 if i&#8217;ve met them. I can reveal though that 2 of the 3 goals are ALMOST met.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So i guess you&#8217;ll have to check back in on July 1.</p>
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		<title>Blog Stats: May 2008</title>
		<link>http://daparky.com/blog-stats-may-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of this is to post the blog stats at the beginning of every month to share some information with you and how well i&#8217;m doing. All these stats are in accordance to Google Analytics. So without further ado here are the stats. daparky.com From 1st May 2008 until 31st May 2008: Visitors 2,615 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idea of this is to post the blog stats at the beginning of every month to share some information with you and how well i&#8217;m doing. All these stats are in accordance to Google Analytics.</p>
<p>So without further ado here are the stats.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>daparky.com</strong></span></p>
<p>From 1st May 2008  until 31st May 2008:</p>
<p><strong>Visitors</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>2,615 Visits (2,381 Absolute Unique Visitors)</li>
<li>4,268 Page Views</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Subscribers</strong> (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)</p>
<ul>
<li>15</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 869.81 Meg</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>talkplaystation.com</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Visitors</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>61,053 Visits (49,688 Absolute Unique Visitors)</li>
<li>76,952 Page Views</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Subscribers</strong> (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)</p>
<ul>
<li>85</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tp-feedburner-may.jpg" rel="lightbox[259]"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-260" title="tp-feedburner-may" src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tp-feedburner-may.jpg" alt="" width="492" height="130" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 49.76 Gig</p>
<p><strong>Total Bandwidth Transfered</strong>: 50.61 Gig</p>
<p>May was a strong month for talk playstation with it reaching new records and heights. I created a <a href="http://daparky.com/updates-talk-playstations-404-page/" target="_self">custom 404 page</a> and have been looking at a few <a href="http://daparky.com/looking-at-a-few-templates/" target="_self">new templates</a> for it too. Meanwhile daparky.com hasn&#8217;t performed as well as i thought &#8211; probably because of lack of motivation and May was probably the month with not as many posts.</p>
<p><strong>Key Moments in May 2008</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>I asked 6 bloggers a question with regards to advertising etc. Check it out <a href="http://daparky.com/so-i-e-mailed-6-bloggers-this-questions/" target="_self">here</a>.</li>
<li>I&#8217;m also enjoying <a href="http://daparky.com/im-enjoying-firefox-more-than-ie/" target="_self">Firefox</a>, it is now my defauly browser. I love it.</li>
<li>I started to create my own plugin that will <a href="http://daparky.com/showing-videos-in-rss-reader/" target="_self">allow videos to show in RSS</a>.</li>
<li>I&#8217;ve constantly applied update to talk playstation.</li>
<li>Daparky.com <a href="http://daparky.com/page-rank-3/" target="_self">achieved</a> a page rank of 3</li>
</ul>
<p>I plan on improving thing even more so check back next month for updated stats.</p>
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		<title>WordPress comments disappeared</title>
		<link>http://daparky.com/wordpress-comments-disappeared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to find that all my comments had disappeared from this blog and talkplaystation.com. This worried me straight away. I checked the database and they were all in there, so it couldnt be a sql problem. Then it clicked, i remembered that i had upgraded my plugins yesterday. Google Analytics for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I woke up this morning to find that all my comments had disappeared from this blog and talkplaystation.com. This worried me straight away. I checked the database and they were all in there, so it couldnt be a sql problem. Then it clicked, i remembered that i had upgraded my plugins yesterday. Google Analytics for WordPress was the plugin that caused the problem and there was an update ready for me to download, i did this and presto! my comments were back.</p>
<p>I was terrified, but glad its back to normal now.</p>
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		<title>Visitors are back to normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I check my Google Analytics dashboard today to find my visitors stats are resumed back to normal after when i went away, they for some reason has dropped because of my inactivity. Some of you have been e-mailing me, asking me how i&#8217;m getting so many visitors on talkplaystation.com. I won&#8217;t reveal how i did [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I check my Google Analytics dashboard today to find my visitors stats are resumed back to normal after when i went away, they for some reason has dropped because of my inactivity.</p>
<p>Some of you have been e-mailing me, asking me how i&#8217;m getting so many visitors on talkplaystation.com. I won&#8217;t reveal how i did it just now, but i will reveal the tips during the course of next week. I just don&#8217;t have the time to do it now since i&#8217;ve just come back from my break, i&#8217;m playing catch up now.</p>
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