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 June. Percent change in [ ] is from July 2008.

Visits: 21,589 (+20.4%) [+68.0%]
Page Views: 34,101 (+15.0%) [+44.9%]
Absolute Unique Visitors: 17,536 (18.4%) [+78.3%]

That translates into:

Visits/day: 696.4 (+16.5%) [+68%]
Page Views/day: 1100.0 (+11.3%) [+44.9%]
AUV/day: 565.7 (+14.6%) [+78.3%]

Not spectacular growth, but growth just the same in the stats in July.  I hit several new marks in July, including first month with over 20,000 visitors, first month with over 600 visitors per day average, first month with 1,100 page views per day average (as well as most page views in a month thus far), and first month with over 15,000 AUVs and over 500 AUV’s per day average.

The rise from a year ago is smaller than normal for two reason:  first, the jump from June 2008 to July 2008 was pretty big (about a doubling), and second, July was really the last month in 2008 that I posted consistently, causing my stats to drop, which took a while to recover from.  Nevertheless, growth is growth, so I’ll take it.

5 busiest days in July (in visits)

1. July 6 (854)
2. July 27 (852)
3. July 7 (836)
4. July 2 (831)
5. July 13 (822)

July included the 4th – 9th busiest days of the year in number of visits and, as one might be able to tell from that state, the top 6 days in July were all better than the best day in June.  However, as yet I still only have 2 days in the year with over 900 visits (March 9 and April 5) and no day has broken 1,000 visits in a single day yet.

Top 5 visited posts in June (in pageviews)

1. Top 10 Anime of 2008 (4,398)
2. Winter 2009 Anime Preview (1,265)
3. Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 14 (1,253)
4. Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 13 (1,196)
5. Spring 2009 Anime Preview (941)

I’m rather shocked that the Spring Anime Preview isn’t on this list.  Usually the most recent of those jump right to the top, but for whatever reason the spring one wasn’t as popular as some of the others (such as the Winter one which is, inexplicably to me, still my #2 visited post).  Phantom still appears to be a series that garners quite a bit of interest, however, with episode reviews of that series making up 4 of the top 10 posts for the month.

In June, there were visits from 149 countries, which is a new all time high. The United States, Canada, and the United Kingom all gave me over 1,000 visits, with the US breaking 10,000 for the first time that I can remember.  26 nations gave me at least 100 visits while 80 gave me at least 10 visits. Once again, every US state gave me at least one visit in the month, with 25 states giving at least 100 visits.

The number of visitors who used Firefox remained relatively steady at 55.5%, with just over 95% of Firefox users using some version of Firefox 3.x. Internet Explorer saw about a 3% drop to 28.9% of users, with another 10% using IE8, up to 36.6%, IE7 falling by about 10% to 49.3% using IE7, and IE6 staying relatively steady at 13.9% of IE users. Chrome makes up 6.1% of browsers, 5.2% use Safari, and 2.9% use Opera.