Back by popular demand, here are some recent statistics on your usage of the blog and the firm's web site. I always like to note that this information is not totally accurate as it will likely contain "visits" from some spam machine in the sky, searching for live e-mail addresses. But, we can certainly glean some broad information about usage of these two sites.

That being said, the blog had its highest usage ever in the month of October! Specifically, there were 12,814 hits for the month; with 2,747 visitors to the blog. Moreover, the majority (by far) of the hits come in the morning hours of 9, 10, and 11.

Likewise, the firm's web site had a busy month, with a record number (but not by much) of visitors, 1,103 in October. California still has the highest number of visitors, but Texas has the most hits, by far. Virginia, Washington and D.C. come in third, fourth and fifith in number of visitors. Following those states are Florida, New Jersey and New York, which are tightly bunched in sixth through ninth place in number of visitors. There were hits from someone (or something!) in every state, but North Dokota comes in last with only 2 visitors each hitting the site once. :( In the most active city list, Beijing, China ranks seventh behind more obvious entrants, like Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Diego and San Francisco -- all California cities. Of course Dallas and Fort Worth are in the top 10 cities, at 10 and 6 respectively. New York City edges Paris France at 18 and 19. Austin ranked 15 and was beat out by Stockholm in number of visitors (88 for Austin and 107 for Stockholm), but not the number of hits (1,158 for Austin and only 321 for Stockholm). Finally, Ramat Gan, Israel had about the same number of hits and visitors as did Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Please just do not ask me what any of this means, other then I hope real human folks are enjoying the site/blog and not some machine named Hal.

Mike