10,000 visitors!

Yesterday, Mining Mayhem passed through a big milestone, so I thought I'd make a post to celebrate. Mining Mayhem has now had 10,000 visits.

When I first started Mining Mayhem, I had a long-term goal of 10,000 visitors per year. It's taken 18 months to reach the first 10,000 visitors, but only 9 months for the last 9000 visitors. The site has been a lot more successful that I've expected. I'm glad that so many people have enjoyed the site, and come back and read the site regularly.

I'd like to thank those who've sent in pictures, particularly Owen and Jerry.

I'd like to give a big thanks to those who've linked to the page. You guys are responsible for the big rise in traffic since the start of the year. So thank you to Bob Cornett, and to the people who linked to us from photostp.free.fr, buybigtires.com, and stripmine.org. And thanks to those who have passed along Mining Mayhem through word-of-mouth.


Interesting statistics:
Visitors by Month:
May 08: 2
June 08: 2
July 08: 32
August 08: 56 (Got a lot of referrals from blogger's 'next blog' link up top)
September 08: 38
October 08: 34
November 08: 46
December 08: 383 (Huge spike from people looking for pictures of Curragh's boom incident.)
January 09: 448
February 09: 1446 (Thanks Bob!)
March 09: 576
April 09: 606
May 09: 622
June 09: 684
July 09: 607
August 09: 951 (Thanks stripmine.org linker!)
September 09: 1161 (Thanks photostp.free.fr linker!)
October 09: 1791

 Visitors by Country:
1. USA (4021)
2. Australia (3789)
3. Canada (448)
4. France (430)
5. UK (196)
6. South Africa (121)
7. Indonesia (105)
8. Germany (93)
9. Brazil (93)
10. Belgium (76)