Jackson Free Press

The JFP blog is breaking its own records. Yesterday — Wednesday, Jan. 28 — was our busiest blog day in this site's 16-month history. We got more visits yesterday than even on Election Day when readers were checking returns throughout the evening. Thanks to all of you for your participation and conversation. (And we'd love to hear from all of you who aren't yet posting comments!) This month is also our biggest month to date with a couple days left to go. And here's a cool number: We've had 1,315,597 hits since we launched the site. (The front page logs unique visitors.)

We've also had many bloggers register for the site since we started requiring user registration in December—a move readers tell us is one of our best, yet. If you haven't registered, yet, for the site, please do. Under our new User Agreement, we've eliminated personal attacks of posters, as well as their ability to spam our member, so please join us.

And keep an eye out for a number of new Web features coming shortly. The restless creative spirits around here are always up to some surprise or another. ;-)

Thanks again.

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For anyone who could possibly care -- you know who you are, Knol -- Todd (the bona-fide geek over this way) just pointed out that I mangled my Web terminology a little (me???). We did break our own blog records. Our stats program shows that traffic has grown steadily to five times what it was a year ago -- from 3,000 unique visits a month to now over 15,000. Our biggest day, yet, was January 28 with 714 unique visits that day and 699 yesterday. This month, we're averaging 487 unique visits a day. (For the real geeks among you, we've had 198,373 total hits this month so far, and 46,774 total pages viewed.) Our total unique visits to the site has been 104,621 to date, with 1,325,418 hits and 337,508 of our pages viewed by visitors. Where I garbled what I wrote above is saying that the counter on the *front page* means unique visits; it apparently is the number of index page views, and runs close to our total number of unique visits, but isn't the unique visits itself. Does that make sense? We also have 90 members signed up and able to post comments, with 80 of those signing up in the last six weeks. We'd love the rest of you to join us in some good conversation. The upshot is that the JFP blog has taken off in popularity, thanks to all of your participation. Thank you, thank you. ;-D

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ladd

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2004-01-30T18:29:11-06:00