Blog for Iowa Stats for September Beat The Entire Month of April in Four Days
by Linda Thieman
Frequent
Blog for Iowa readers may recall, because I mention it every chance I
get, that Blog for Iowa first went online on April 1. We did well
that month for a newbie website: 2,830 distinct hosts served (the
number of individual computers that hit our site) and 7,362 page views.
This
morning, I was very surprised to see that in the first 4 days of
September, we have surpassed the number of distinct hosts served AND
the number of page views for the entire month of April, our first
month. Of course, we DO always get a big boost the day after Meet
Up, so a big “thank you” to the DFA/DFIA Meet Up hosts for their
support, and a “thank you” to Rapid Response – Iowa for mentioning us, too.
As
usual, the most viewed categories are Iowa in the News and Candidates,
followed by Calls to Action, Environment, Local Events, Dean News, and
National News.
And, this killed me – I was looking at the referral stats for September
4th. This shows how people find Blog for Iowa, down to the last
person. One reader visited our site by Googling “Stephen Colbert
crass-tastic.” If you missed that humorous article about the
Daily Show with Jon Stewart and their convention coverage, click here.
Blog For Iowa 
this clearly shows the quality of this website and also shows the grassroots political activism that was born of the Dean campaign in Iowa is not going to disappear. Many, many Iowa political leaders who were outside the Dean campaign have expressed to me appreciation and admiration for the work Democracy for Iowa is doing.
unfortunately, I don't believe that has yet to come to include many of the staff and key leaders within the Iowa Democratic Party.
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