Okay, this didn’t post when I wanted it to.  Grr, technology!!!  I BLAME BUSH!!!

Anyway…

I’ve got the final stats for this website in 2006 now.  As a refresher, 2005 broke out as:

< = 3,831 unique visitors (estimate)

16,565 actual visits

408,345 page views

423,222 total hits.

 

2006 ended with:

<= 5,181 unique visitors (+ 1,350)

21,630 actual vists (+ 5,065)

73,173 page views (- 335,172)

112,316 hits (- 310,906)

Not too bad :-)  The spammers have been stopped from posting, so there’s been far fewer hits from them.  Conversely, unique hits have gone up, which is a better indication (although still imperfect) of how many “real” people are out there who read this site.