campfire anthems

so its been 6 months that you guys have been sitting around here at the campfire.  it seems like i just started this thing a month ago.  i figured that the 6 month mark would be a good time to share a little information about my stats, readers, and other analytical information.  so here we go.

since i started this website 6 months ago…

…5,581 people have visited me

…i have had 9,015 page views

…there have been 2,369 absolute unique visitors

…emily has sent me the most traffic refferals

…my saint michael tattoo has been the most popular search engine result

…my blog is read in all 50 states as well as the district of columbia

…i have had readers in 72 countries (out of 192 countries in the united nations….37.5% of the world if you are keeping score)

i know that is probably just mundane information to you, but i think its pretty cool.  after seeing these results, and actually thinking about them, i have set up some goals for my website for this time next year.  i want to continue to spread readership through the world and reach anyone that can read/speak english.  i also want to provide 4 original desktop wallpaper calendars each month for my readers to download for free.  i want to have high enough daily traffic to sell advertising space on my website.  finally, i would love to have more comments from people throughout the world, rather than just my close friends (thanks for commenting close friends, i appreciate you, don’t let that come across wrong) so that i can see who you guys are.

as always, thanks for reading.  if it weren’t for you all out there in interweb world, this whole thing would be useless.