Here it is again…the post no one but I and a few other people in the known universe care about…the web stats post! Get all the numeric goodness below the fold!

Percent change in ( ) is from December.  Percent change in [ ] is from January 2008.

Visits: 13,570 (+23%) [+239.4%]
Page Views: 22,951 (+12.3%) [+228.3%]
Absolute Unique Visitors: 11,010 (+29.2%) [+276.7%]

This translates into:

Visits/day: 437.7 (+23%) [+239.4%]
Page Views/day: 740.4 (+12.3%) [+228.3%]
AUV/day: 355.2 (+29.2%) [+276.7%]

Despite going on a rather long hiatus over last fall – and even for a couple weeks in January – January ended up being my best month yet, seeing an all time high in monthly visits and AUVs (with the first time over 10,000 AUVs), and a close 2nd behind July 2008 for Page Views.  I’m also getting about 3 times as much traffic this January as I was in January of last year.

Now, onto more specific data:

The 5 busiest days in January (in visits):

1. January 1 (641)
2. January 2 (627)
3. January 10 (623)
4. January 4 (568)
5. January 8 (559)

I had 5 days all last year which got over 600 visits and I already have 3 in the month of January.  December 31st – January 2nd may very well be my busiest 3 days on record, with a total of 1,878 visitors over those 3 days.

Top 5 visited posts (in page views):

1. Winter 2009 Anime Preview (3,628)
2. Top 10 Anime of 2008 (1,265)
3. Top 10 Anime Openings of 2008 (610)
4. Top 10 Anime Endings of 2008 (528)
5. Winter 2009 Blog/Watch List (519)

In January I had visits from 127 countries, 18 different nations gave me over 100 visits, while a total of 67 gave me at least 10 visits.  For the 2nd month in a row, every US State also gave me a visit, with 15 states giving me at least 100 visits.

A total of 57.7% of visitors to my blog use Firefox, with 87% of those users using Firefox 3.  Less than 1% of Firefox users still use some version of Firefox 1 or 1.5.  A total of 30% of visitors to my blog use Internet Explorer, with 79% of those users using IE7, but a full 19% of users still using IE6.  Nearly 2% are using the IE8 beta.  Opera users make up 4.3% of my visitors, Safari users make up 3.9% of visitors, while Chrome makes up 3.3% of visitors.