Here are some recent usage stat’s on the blog:

August recorded our highest usage since we began the blog in February. Although we have been trending up in usage, August’s number of separate visitors was double the month before — with 712 separate visitors, 8,525 hits.

We have had hits from 24 countries — some I “get” but most I don’t. For example in Canada, we have client representatives — so I assume that some of the 26 separate visitors hitting the site 1,093 times relates to clients. But we don’t have 26 different client rep’s in Canada…not to mention the UK, Sweden, China and the Netherlands (each of which had between 26 and 72 separate visitors to the blog). And how about the 4 visitors (and 97 hits) from Israel or the 3 visitors (90 hits) from Puerto Rico?

As to states with the most usage: California has doubled the number of separate visitors to the blog over Texas with 1,855 independent visitors. Texas follows and then Washington State (with 635 visitors) and Virginia in fourth place at 185 visitors, but a large amount of hits, 2,967. New York and Georgia follows with 52 and 42 independent visitors, respectively. New Jersey, Colorado (33 visitors each), the District of Columbia, and New Mexico (18 visitors each) round out the top ten user states.

As to cities, there are some interesting anomalies: Houston had more independent visitors, 133, but less hits, at 875, than did Dallas at 112 visitors and 2,061 hits; Beijing, China had more visitors (69) than did Plano, Texas (51) but fewer hits, as may be expected (113 hits for Beijing and 1,656 for Plano); and London beat out White Plains on visitors, but just barely. But wait, there’s more: Kassel, Germany had more hits than did Little Rock, Arkansas (58 to 54), and Gouda, Netherlands had 4 hits from 3 visitors whereas Cherry Hill, New Jersey had 225 hits from their 3 visitors.

Should you want more interesting (!?) info regarding our blog, feel free to ask!

I hope that these visitors reflect real people and whether you are a real person or just a machine, we are delighted that you are here!

Mike