Well, we didn’t get as high numbers as expected, but the numbers for people visiting the site were still good. Broke 9000 different visits, and will top out at maybe 4700 unique visitors, with an average of 300 visits per day. Not bad, again considering the modest expectations from the start of the site. Overall, either the site’s growth is slowing down, or this month was a blip. If the former, the numbers could go anywhere; if the latter, then I’m on target for 10,000 unique visitors by next June. Seeing as how in early October I predicted 4000 monthly visitors by year’s end, I tend to be hopeful.

3410 visits were from search engines, 780 of them looking for something on the Matrix, about another 500 looking for information on Panther, OS X 10.3 for the Mac. The No. 1 site for linked references was this one, the name of which I’d rather not mention directly; after that, the blog tracking sites, with some kind of family tree site which apparently linked in to see the hamster movie.

The number one page people visited was the Spoiler Review for Matrix: Reloaded(640 visits), followed closely by the perennial favorite, the entry on Eyelid Twitching (400 visits–I’ve come to accept my fame). After that is my review of Panther (also 400), and then the Spoiler Review for Matrix: Revolutions (360 views). The Great Chicken Struggle, a movie of my hamster vying to get a chicken leg bone into her cage, was downloaded 112 times.

Most visitors came from the U.S., and next Japan. As usual, someone in Estonia looks in from time to time, as do a few hardy followers from Israel, Finland, Singapore and Belgium, along with about 30 other nations. The average visitor stays for at least seven and a half minutes. Most visitors use Windows and MS Internet Explorer (can’t win ’em all).

And by the way, if your IP Address is 82.36.128.40, 219.113.201.110, or 66.151.128.23, then let me know why you’re visiting so much!