I was looking over my blog’s stats today, and I was blown away by the sheer volume of numbers involved. In the 489 days I’ve maintained Mattsapundit, here’s what my readers and I have generated:

• 768 posts (1.6/day) in 43 categories
• 298 comments (0.6/day) from 78 commenters

Here are some stats on my traffic since I’ve been on WordPress (80 days):

• 4,323 unique visitors (54 visitors/day)
• 8,622 visits (108 visits/day, 2 visits/visitor/day)
• 78,567 pages served (982 pages/day, 9 pages/visit)
• 1.53 GB of data served (19.6 MB/day, 186 KB/visit)

And here are the records:

• Highest-traffic day (visits): [1] April 28, 2006
• Highest-traffic day (MB): [2] April 3, 2006

Most popular time for viewing Mattsapundit is 4:00-5:00 p.m., and the least popular is 1:00-2:00 a.m. The highest-traffic day of the week is Tuesday, and the slowest day is Sunday.

The top referring sites are [3] Lone Star Times, the [4] old Mattsapundit and [5] blogHOUSTON.

The vast majority of readers are in the United States, which I expected. The second most common country is the Netherlands for some reason. I have no idea why. Canada rounds out the top 3.

Windows XP is the most common operating system of Mattsapundit readers, followed by Mac OS X and Linux. Internet Explorer (yuck) is the leading browser, followed closely by Firefox, with Safari in a distant third.

Google is by far the most popular search engine, garnering 89.3% of the searches that end up here. Yahoo and MSN are both in the single digits.

Speaking of search engines, here’s the fun part — the most common search phrases people use to find Mattsapundit. Here are the top 10:

1. soul glo
2. wetback mountain
3. houston roller derby
4. soul glo video
5. soul glo audio
6. mattsapundit
7. just let your soul glo
8. carlos mencia wetback mountain
9. russ sartain
10. carlos mencias wetback mountain

As a highly trained statistics professional, allow me to make a hypothesis. Y’all really like [6] Coming to America. Good crowd. Along with the popular search phrases, though, there are a lot of bizarre ones. Here are a few:

• beat you like a redheaded stepchild movies
• alexander euthanize oliver stone
• bizarre hooker september holidays
• transgendered razor bumps african american
• dried feces on pizza

I’ve asked this before and I’m sure I’ll ask it again: What the hell is the matter with you people?