Not too surprisingly, I saw a big dropoff in traffic from November to December. About 41,000 visitors came by last month, making it the second slowest month of the year, and that was after a late referral from Atrios. Everything is relative, of course - last year at this time I had 35,000 hits and it was my best month ever up till then.

Counting it all up for the year, I got about 535,000 hits, which is pretty amazing to me. As always, I thank you all very much for coming by. I feel very rewarded knowing that you do.

Top referrers are beneath the More link. Sadly, this month I seem to be deluged with spam domains in the referral stats that I get from my webhost. They don't show up as Sitemeter referrals, which makes me wonder if they're comment or trackback spams that got blocked by MT Blacklist but still counted as referrals by my host. I don't know, but I do know that at the rate some of these are showing up, they may crowd out real referrers from the monthly total (I only see the top numbers). We'll see what happens.

Aggregators, collections, indices, etc
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418:  http://www.bloglines.com
268:  http://blo.gs/

Weblog referrers

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3253:  Atrios


1736:  Daily Kos


481:   TAPPED


344:   The Sideshow


147:   The Burnt Orange Report


137:   The American Street


117:   Pandagon


101:   Safety for Dummies


194:   Pandagon


81:    Slightly Rough


77:    MyDD




Top search terms

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#reqs: search term

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  193: diane zamora

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  123: john waters christmas

  115: catholic high school girls in trouble

  111: pancho claus

   94: link dump

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   88: schlitterbahn galveston

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   79: walton and johnson

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   78: budweiser real men of genius

   78: women of enron

   70: john waters christmas album

   61: prime number algorithm

   60: cell phone no call list

   59: dps scandal