I can’t quite believe the growth in vis­it­ors to this site. Since I pos­ted about my vis­itor count passing the quarter of a mil­lion mark on June 1^st, I have had another 50,000 vis­it­ors tak­ing the total count to well over 300,000! That’s 25,000 vis­it­ors a month. For little old me, I find that quite impress­ive. I’ve also had over half a mil­lion page views in that time. The page views counter passed three and a half mil­lion a while ago.

I know that being one of the feeds to the WordPress dash­board helps, but the vast major­ity of my vis­it­ors still come from search engines. Eleven of my top fif­teen refer­rers are search engines. Of those, Google accounts for a whop­ping 76% of search engine hits. In fact, as I write this, the last 15 minutes has seen 15 unique vis­it­ors 12 of whom are vis­it­ing old pages via search engines.

With all this vis­itor activ­ity, it cer­tainly seems that my page cach­ing is hold­ing out ok. I still get some weird slow-downs on the server, but I think some of that is down to the stat­ist­ics pack­age I use, Power Pphlog­ger is start­ing to creak at the seams. I doesn’t appear that ver­sion 3 is going to appear any time soon, so I’m start­ing to look elsewhere.