October 2007 Stats

Didn't manage to bring you stats last month due to the logs disappearing with the server crash. Octobers logs are fine - the figures are looking just fine too ^o^
October served just under 10 million page views (9,951,897) to an average of 56,610 unique daily users (highest day was October 17 at 101,991 unique users). The monthly total users amounted to a total of 1.7 million visitors (1,754,930).

dannychoo.com has gone from being in the top 80,000 websites in the world to being in the top 13,000 within a year. Goal is to get in the worlds top 5000 by Q2 2008.

While the Alexa rankings are not completely accurate, they do provide a good overview of how a site is doing when compared to others. Unfortunately, Alexa only monitor the top level domain so if you have a blah.wordpress.com, alexa will only tell you what the rank is for wordpress.com.

If you are interested in increasing the Alexa rank for your site, you should install the Alexa Toolbar available in the Alexa site for Firefox or IE. Every time you access your own site, you will be contributing to your rank. The toolbar shows the rank of the site that you are currently visiting which allows you not only to gage how well a site is doing, but also if you can trust them - a site calling itself "ebay" with a really bad Alexa rank is likely to be a fishing site (for example).

Most of the folks who I know that work in the internet or own a blog have the toolbar installed - you can see it in my browser when I take snapshots from time to time ^^;

Referrers who drove thousands of visitors to the site were...

• Japan Probe - everything Japan
• Kirainet - everything Japan
• Kotaku - everything games
• Akihabara News - exclusive press reviews of gadgets
• Digg - got dugg 4 times in a month!
• Fakku - Free online Doujinshi
• Johoya-san - Japan news n topics
• Meneame - Spanish Digg
• IDouga - Adult video site (NSFW)

And many many many thanks to everybody else and my Featured Feed partners who drove traffic to the site.

For November, you should expect more video fun around Tokyo, a new site launch and hopefully the figure.fm renewal. All sites that I launch from now on will work with a dannychoo.com account.

Oh, and a big hello goes out to the new folks who have just become a dannychoo.com reader - I notice a few thousand of you who arrived from boingboing yesterday too. Welcome to the community ^o^

Popular articles last month were as follows which you can RSS subscribe to or see more of »

Japanese Fetish Yesterdays bottom smacking and wet sailor fuku fetish news items seemed to go down well so how about some more? This time its a "woman-crushing-train-set" fet... ( continue reading » (comments(63) ) Japan Bus This is the small bus terminal outside Shibuya station. After getting on one of the buses, I got to see for the first time the uniform of a bus guide... For... ( continue reading » (comments(68) ) Gundam OO Gundam 00 started to air last night on MBS taking the prime time 6PM slot. So how was it? I wont go into detail about the plot because Random Curiosity has... ( continue reading » (comments(77) ) Apple Keyboard A quick look at the new wafer thin apple keyboard and how its helped me organize my workspace a bit better. Been waiting ages for a decent keyboard to come out for the m... ( continue reading » (comments(52) ) Japanese Girls I personally think that girls with glasses are gorgeous but the contact lens company Acuvue doesn't seem to think so. This commercial was just so damn annoyi... ( continue reading » (comments(78) ) Bukkake Figure WARNING WARNING WARNING! If you are in the middle of eating or wearing a pacemaker then you wont want to look at this article. For those who dont know what Bu... ( continue reading » (comments(96) ) Japanese Farts It seems that many of you thought that the previous train crushing fetish was odd - you still have not seen deep enough into the world of Japanese fetishes...... ( continue reading » (comments(67) ) Japanese Phones Its been a while since I went out to look for a phone and am still disappointed in the quality of designs available. Once upon a time, the phones started to get thinner... ( continue reading » (comments(72) ) Tokyo Real Estate Taken outside an estate agent in Ikebukuro. It says "Foreigners Welcome!" So why on earth do they need to state that foreigners are welcome? I know many gai... ( continue reading » (comments(64) ) Kureha The addition of Kureha in my collection has made it a little bit more easy to decide what figure to grab in the event of an earthquake. After half a year of waiting, the... ( continue reading » (comments(54) ) Tokyo Ramen When you're fed up of eating Ramen (noodles) like this then you will be glad to hear that there are some radical alternatives in Tokyo... For example, how ab... ( continue reading » (comments(57) ) Japanese Browsers A sample of Japanese folks took a survey to establish what their browser home page was. The results were as follows. MSN, Yahoo, other portal site 42.2%... ( continue reading » (comments(86) ) Japanese Doctors Taken very recently at a clinic when I done my back in - couldn't walk for two days. Given the general poor quality of doctors in Japan, I'm really surprised t... ( continue reading » (comments(56) ) Japanese Maids The next maid thing to set the otaku population into a frenzy. This lady is an abandoned maid left on the streets to starve. She has written on the box "Hiro... ( continue reading » (comments(51) ) Shibuya Dance Trooper Shot straight after the YouTube Mix party. Hector and I walked down to Shibuya from Omotesando and had planned to shoot at different locations. Unfortunately s... ( continue reading » (comments(80) ) Gundam Defends Japan After Japan lost the last war, they signed a treaty that stated that Japan was not allowed to form an army of humans. But there was nothing in the treaty mentio... ( continue reading » (comments(73) ) Gaijin Those who keep up with the latest news in Japan by reading the top Japan blog Japan Probe will already know that a bunch of gaijin (foreigners) "hijacked" a tra... ( continue reading » (comments(98) ) Popular news items for last month were as follows which you can RSS subscribe to or see more of »

Tokyo Drift Taken on the way home from Lalaport in Toyosu. Never seen Tokyo Drift but only a clip of cars steaming through Shibuya ... ( continue reading » (comments(44) ) Urusai Urusai Urusai Urusai meaning Noisy or Shut up. Who do you prefer? Via Neta. UPDATE: Adding video found by Gordon ^^; ... ( continue reading » (comments(33) ) Biker Stormtrooper Caption this photo ^^; Photo taken by Jabro.... ( continue reading » (comments(34) ) Anime Characters How well do you know your anime? Enough to name all these characters? From Neta.... ( continue reading » (comments(44) ) Breast Milk You can now buy breast milk in a carton to go with your morning cereal. Any takers? Via Neta.... ( continue reading » (comments(33) ) Idols on Flickr Judest Priest! I didnt know that Flickr allowed Idol images to be uploaded. If this is the case, I betcha that many of y... ( continue reading » (comments(32) ) Aya Hirano Some private time with Aya and her mobile pics. My fave is number 14 I think. How about you? Via Byonavi.... ( continue reading » (comments(50) ) Aged 17 Anime Characte... Characters who are about 17. LOL at Moetan and Manami. Choose one to marry. Via Neta.... ( continue reading » (comments(43) ) Louise VS Haruhi Saw this over at Fakku and stopped to think about it. Then it dawned on me as to how tough of a question it was. If you... ( continue reading » (comments(33) )