Interesting and random observations and findings from a year’s worth of blog stats:

2 Highest Traffic Days

• Feb 26, 2008 – I posted the online video premiere of Overnighter and word started to spread culminating in this highest traffic day ever for MTDB.
• Mar 24, 2008 – I posted a few pictures from lunch with Jason Castro of American Idol fame and after getting some fan-site links, the site was swamped with the 2nd highest day ever.

Referring Sites

• SimplyYouthMinistry.com and YouthMinistry.com – because of my relationship with these sites, we’ve got a ton of traffic coming both ways.
• Google – far and away the highest referrer, they are totally dominating the search world.
• Twitter - I’m pumped to see people finding content on the blog from Twitter. I decided to not have the site automatically Tweet, but the traffic flows over when people get pinged. Interesting new entry on the list this year.
• MuchBetterThanMoreThanDodgeball.com – this site hasn’t been updated since April, but it keeps sending me visitors. Weird.
• Honorable mentions for referring: Tony Morgan, Eric Putman and Kurt Johnston. Thanks, guys!

Where Did People Come From?

• 91% visitors were from the United States, of the US #1 was California, followed by Texas, Ohio, Florida and Georgia.
• 3% of the visitors to my site were from Canada, followed by Australia and the United Kingdom with 1% each, and the rest of the world sharing the balance.

Browser Wars

• Internet Explorer 47%
• Firefox 33%
• Safari 18%

Random Stuff

• 4% of you came back to the site 200+ times in 2008
• 33% of visitors were new vs. returning
• 2% of visitors were on Dial-up internet

JG