Banner Month

August was the highest-traffic month since the move, with Google Analytics recording 51,752 "Unique Visits" (whatever that means-- it's not 50,000 different people, I don't think). I'm sort of boggled by that number, which is about an order of magnitude higher than what I was seeing at the old site.

Somewhere in there, we also passed a quarter-million visits for the year, with the total as of this morning standing at 259,636 visits. Again, bogglement.

Anyway, I just wanted to note that, and say thanks for reading.

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