Blog Traffic

I checked out my blog traffic out of curiosity today. It's a bit higher than I expected. The time-line appears to be off since I know I started this blog in 2010. The earliest reads November 2009. It's strange. That aside, I will list the data as follows:

Page Views Per Month 

• November 2009: 78 page-views
• December 2009: 25 page-views
• January 2010: 32 page-views
• February 2010: 20 page-views
• March 2010: 11 page-views
• April 2010: 48 page-views
• May 2010: 50 page-views
• June 2010: 47 page-views
• July 2010: 40 page-views
• August 2011: 26 page-views
• September 2011: 19 page-views
• October 2011: 8 page-views
• November 2011: 47 page-views
• December 2011: 42 page-views
• January 2012: 21 page-views
• February 2012: 36 page-views
• March 2012: 85 page-views
• April 2012: 7 page-views
• May 2012: 13 page-views
• June 2012: 64 page-views
• July 2012: 41 page-views

Traffic Chart

The average appears to be around forty page-views per month.

Most Trafficked Posts

1. Books, Books and More Books (Nov 14, 2010).

2. Blog Refutals # 1: "Bad Christian, Good Atheist (Feb 4, 2012).
3. An Appeal to Get Rid of Non-Secular Influence (Dec 1, 2010).
4. Remembering Our Fallen, Continuing Their Legacy (Nov 13, 2010).
5. Reflections on Western Democracy (Jun 24, 2012).

It's understandable why number two would be so highly trafficked. I had an argument there with someone who clearly didn't read what I wrote in the original post. I'm surprised at number five (eleven page views). It was written not even a month ago and it ranks so highly. This may be a sign of recently increasing blog traffic.

Traffic Sources 

1. http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi? (55 referrals)
2. http://domar.ru (9 referrals)
3. http://domar.ru (7 referrals)
4. http://thecfe.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=tdlg (6 referrals) (dead link).
5. http://www.emailtray.com/members-area.html (5 referrals).

Audience 

Map of Audience

You can see that most of my audience comes from Canada, followed by the United States.

Hopefully in time, this blog will grow to appeal to many thousands of readers!

Stay tuned.

Money Troubles Update 2

I posted last week about my problems with PayPal and Amazon. They seemed to resolve themselves quickly afterwards. I received my Simpsons DVD, paid off the credit card balance. PayPal transfered the money to my account (finally). But in the interim, I learned that I could use PayPal for payments directly from my checking account. I didn't need to fund my PayPal. Knowing this, I decided to send the $20.00 back to my bank account.

The processing fee? Fifty cents. My account will receive only $19.50 instead of the twenty dollars I planned for. It's a small price to pay for knowing that I can pay directly from my bank. Yet again, though, I'll have to wait five to seven business days for the transaction to complete. PayPal sent me an e-mail saying that I can expect by money to be in my checking account by July 24, 2012 at the latest. I can be glad that this saga has ended uneventfully, though.

Stay tuned!

Money Troubles Update

Last week I posted about my problems with PayPal and Amazon, though in truth they could be chalked up to minor inconveniences. Which they proved themselves to be. I received the deposit from PayPal into my account about three days after I posted about not receiving it. I managed to confirm my account afterwards. I transferred $20.00 from my bank into PayPal, and at time of writing it's currently processing the transaction. It should be complete by July 12th. I received my credit card in the mail yesterday. Activated it, and purchased The Simpsons season 2 DVD box set. I chose super-saver shipping (meaning shipping is free) so I have to wait a couple extra business days for it to ship. It'll ship around July 9, and I can expect to receive it around July 12. Conveniently, that means both of my transactions will complete around that time. Though I realize I don't need to fund from my bank account to pay with PayPal. When that account receives the twenty dollars, I'm transferring it back to my checking account (which can take 6-8 business days to process). In short, my experiences with Amazon and PayPal have been more or less positive (That befits Amazon moreso, only because the latter takes so long to process payments).

Stay tuned.