Site statistics

Site traffic for the month was up again on October's figure, with nearly 17,000 unique visitors, and 38,000 visits in total. As is normal, almost all of our visitors come directly to the site or via search engines or reference sites, with only 1% coming via other blogs and sites - the most significant of those referrers were (out of the 38,000 visits): 121 came via timblair.net, 82 via nothappyjohn.com (interesting to see how active that site still is), 57 via Mark Sergeant's blog, 32 via Senator Andrew Bartlett's blog, 18 from Crikey, and 16 from the Friends of the ABC NSW.

We published 47 new articles in November, up from 23 in October, and 1075 comments, from 887 in October. We now have just on 500 people registered to comment, of whom around 100 logged on in November.

We didn’t publish 45 abusive, content-free or incomprehensible comments, and 8 under the 5-post rule. Total intended for publication and not published 53/1128=4.7%.

Finances

Income in November was $350 in donations and $110 from ads: total $460, versus expenditure of $557.59. As usual, almost all ($544.59) of the expenditure was the subscription to Project Syndicate for the rights to publish their syndicated articles up to a month before they appear on the Project Syndicate site - usually around 14 articles per month. We have negotiated a decrease in this monthly amount for future months, and this will be reflected in a small jump in the "funds date" in the donations block in due course.

Site troubles

We again lost the content management system for a time due to unexpected host action. However, we seem to have fixed the communication problems we had with them sending notices to the wrong address, and they have moved us to another server. Given their very low costs (US$90pa), we haven't been able to find a better hosting combination, so we'll see how the new server travels into the new year.