With April 2009 just behind us, this marks Blog and Mablog’s fifth birthday, and we should be ready for kindergarten in the fall. Just wait until junior high school.
As always, there is much to be thankful for. I really am grateful for the regular readers, a group that vastly outnumbers those who take time to comment — and I am grateful for them as well. Each month, this web site now attracts between 16,000 and 17,000 unique visitors (last year at this time it was just over 14,000). Our Google Page Rank just went from 4 to 5, and Technorati has us listed in the top 10,000 blogs. But I don’t lean on the Technorati numbers too hard — their authority ranking for us has been stuck on the same number for 8 months. But at least it is stuck on a decent number.
Google Analytics is really helpful for a number of things, among which is the task of figuring out what posts you prefer reading. For example, this last month when I looked at the top ten posts — discounting front page and archive search pages — the top six were four posts on our Obama nation, the review of Fireproof, and one on Miss California — the one without the photo.