So the stats are in for the month of August, and it was…by far…the best month this little blog has ever had. My side scroller series seemed to have gotten a lot of attention. Another big performers was the pretty popups article from July.

After I released the side scroller series the developer’s site DZone grabbed it and ran giving a boost of over 1,000 hits throughout the month. So thanks DZone!

The site gotta few digs now and then, but not enough to matter. I have found that my traffic primarily comes from google searches from designers/developers looking for a tutorial of some type. In my opinion this is the best kind of visitor because when they find me, I know I can provide them some value. Visits from the social sites are great, but I notice that there are a lot of “hit and runs” that come from those sites. My goal is still to create a community for designers and developers so a hit and run doesn’t add a lot to that.

With that said, in between the runners, the social sites do attract some great people here that visit, learn, and contribute. The more of these we have, the better the community will be.

So how good was August? Well, according to Mint, here are my stats.

Total Visits: 8,420
Unique Visits: 4,060

This averages out to be about 130 people a day. Now, you take out the bump from DZone and this was still an amazing month. The average daily traffic Monday - Friday is around 230 or so which is a huge increase compared to any other month. This average has been holding steady for about 3 weeks now so that is pretty exciting. My initial goal is 1,000 visits a day so I am still a ways off, but it is fun to watch the site and community grow.

With feedburner I am averaging just about 70 for the month of August (69 to be exact). I get about 800 or so hits from the feed every day. That is awesome, but I am not sure what constitutes a hit when it comes to RSS (anyone?).

Will September be better? I have no idea really…if I keep the same averages we have for the last few weeks then it will be close. Only time will tell…