Blog traffic

During the month of August 2006, kimbly.com has received 122,040 hits from 12,204 different ip addresses. Where does all this traffic come from? It's 50% more than what I was receiving a year ago. Does this just happen to any site that's been around a while? I don't think I warrant that much attention from the rest of the world.

Here's the most popular pages this month. The numbers show the classic zipf distribution that you expect from the web.

• my blog front page with 31,962 hits.
• diamond wiki with over 12,000 hits. Perhaps I should revive that project, since it's by far the most popular thing I've ever done.
• rejection letters with 1,156 hits. Unfortunately that post is practically content free. Google has sent me about 450 searches for "rejection letter" thereby making it my most popular single search term. Runner up is "propaganda" with 300 hits, which finds this page as well as this one.
• erlang is icky with 778 hits. This is only because someone posted it to reddit recently.
• macros and modules and certificates, oh my with 727 hits. With numbers like that I'm going to have to go back and add some helpful pointers for people who expected an answer to their question.
• managed developer testing with 615 hits. I had completely forgotten I ever wrote that post.
• why so many? with 493 hits. That one's probably the only post that's really worth the attention it's receiving.
• iraq has no WMD with 476 hits.
• erlang and polymorphism with 442 hits. I'm sensing an Erlang theme here. Too bad the language is icky... ;)