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New stats up to date as of 7 August, 2003. I am not very good at Excel, but feel free to download the workbook and analyze it to your liking (please share any analysis). Check out this new worksheet from Michael Smith for more advanced statistical wrangling. (based on 26 May stats)

The following stats were compiled on data as of 7 August 2003. Direct questions or comments to mike at bedope ° com.

Number of Posts:

There are currently over 5,760 posts to hiptop Nation. Here they are broken down by month:

chart of unique bloggers
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Number of photos

14,228

(no fancy chart for this one)

Unique Bloggers:

Or "registered users" if you prefer. As of 26 May 2003 (about noon), there are 438 unique bloggers on hiptop Nation. It looks like the rate of new bloggers joining is slowing somewhat. This may change with the recent release of the SunCom HipTop and the Real Soon Now release of color screen hiptop devices.

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4 Oct 2002	7 Nov	7 dec	6 Jan 2003	8 Feb	6 Mar	7 Apr	7 May	7 Jun	7 Jul	7 Aug	
        35	  194	  244	       302	  353	  393	  424	  435	  446	  478	  490

Top Ten Bloggers

The bloggers with the most posts are:
  1. mlee (235)
  2. bustagroove (183)
  3. phatbudsjay (181)
  4. drock309 (162)
  5. rt425 (137)
  6. mike (136)
  7. formank (126)
  8. kale (117)
  9. countzero (107)
  10. arepem (110)

Website Stats

Pageviews by month

(as of 26 August, 2003)

For what it is worth, here is the breakdown of pageviews by month. This doesnt take into account proxies, people looking at rss feeds, LiveJournal friends pages, etc. Each unit (+) represents 2,000 requests for pages or part thereof. 

   month:   #reqs: #pages: 
--------: -------: ------: 
Oct 2002: 1134156:  41284: +++++++++++++++++++++
Nov 2002:  875607:  38627: ++++++++++++++++++++
Dec 2002:  995549:  41345: +++++++++++++++++++++

Jan 2003: 1205313:  44320: +++++++++++++++++++++++
Feb 2003: 1146521:  49751: +++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mar 2003: 1120469:  59768: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Apr 2003: 1184878:  65847: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
May 2003: 1113031:  64733: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jun 2003: 1407345:  70785: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jul 2003: 1432465:  75005: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Aug 2003:  926938:  70514: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Busiest month: Jul 2003 (75,005 requests for pages).

Other

Some other website stats to date as of 26 Aug, 2003

(Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending Aug 27 2003 at 4:45 AM).
Successful requests: 12,590,979 (226,945)
Average successful requests per day: 38,539 (32,420)
Successful requests for pages: 624,833 (19,317)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,912 (2,759)
Failed requests: 15,751 (83)
Redirected requests: 732 (1)
Data transferred: 41.419 gigabytes (1.672 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 129.820 megabytes (244.613 megabytes)