State Of The Union Address

I was going to do this at 100 posts, but forgot. Now I'll do it at 115 posts. Yeah, I know, I promised I was out until Tuesday. This time it's really my last post until Tuesday. Promise.

First the basics.

• Blog started March 16th, 2007
• First day visitors-37
• Total visitors since March 16th, 2007- 29,465
• Lowest visitors day- 19 on April 28th, 2007
• Highest visitors day- 9,918 on July 26th, 2007 (thank you Gorilla Mask)

Now some article stats.

• Most read article- Top 10 Simpsons Vehicles, 15,432 visitors
• 2nd most read article- Infiniti Has Seen The Future, 1,285 visitors
• 3rd most read article- 10 Worst GM Vehicles Of The Past 25 Years, 977 visitors
• Least read article- Germany's Road Sign Deforestation, 34 visitors

And the top 10 Google keyword search term referrals.

• 'Infiniti M37'
• 'Infiniti FX50'
• 'The Mags Report blogspot'
• 'Nissan 370Z'
• 'Infiniti EX25'
• 'Transformers sucked'
• 'Ford Twin Force'
• '2009 Infiniti Q50'
• '2008 Corvette pricing'
• '2008 Cadillac CTS'

Some very odd Google keyword searches that resulted in blog hits.

• 'caricatures Carroll Shelby'
• 'admiral viscen' (WTF?)
  
• 'worlds largest piece of crap' (referring to the site or a car, I'm not sure)
  
• 'transformers sucked?' (I guess this searcher wasn't sure)
• 'tiptronic machismo' (bitter anti-Porsche person)
• 'les tripe de jackasses' (a French person who doesn't like me?)
• 'gmc acadia is a pig' (Toyota dealer?)
• 'mags gmi' (ha!)

The top 5 referring sites.

• Gorilla Mask- 12,063
• VW Vortex- 1,349
• Digg.com - 775
• Best Week Ever- 754
• GM Inside News (aka Mention The Mags Report And You're Banned)- 752

After that, it gets extremely dorky. As if this wasn't already.

• IE is used by 47% of visitors. Firefox by 44%. Safari by 6%.
• Windows is used by 88% of visitors. Mac OS by 11%. Linux by 0.66%.
• Average time on the site is 6 minutes and 52 seconds.

So that's that. The good news is that the site is doing great and I want to thank all the contributors for being a part of this little project (even the lazy ones). The bad news is.... umm... there is no bad news.

All Hail Holidays With No Purpose!

Civic holiday long weekend for the Canadians among us (which means me). Why do we get it? I don't know. I just know I'm off till Tuesday. I'm sure Firebird et al will keep you occupied in the meantime.

Another One Bites The Dust

And by 'another one bites the dust', I mean 'another one joins The Mags Report'.

Welcome to Sobe, a former contributor at the hallowed grounds of GMI, and now doing his thing at FoMoCoNews.com , the website to be for all of your Ford needs. You know, like repairs and quality control, bland vehicles, a company on the brink of bankruptcy, and absolutely no semblance of design prowess.

As always, if you like writing about cars, feel free to contact me at magforce@gmail.com.

Welcome Aboard!

Loyal readers to the site will notice a marked uptick in content the last 3 days- all courtesy of one man, 69Firebird400, hereby shortened to FB so I don't drive myself crazy typing out numbers and letters. Apart from making me seem even more lazy than I actually am in regards to site updates, he's got quite a background writing for AutoSavant and his own blog, Cars & Tech - so be sure to check out his work - only the best for TMR (pretentious shorthand for The Mags Report).

Welcome aboard FB!

We are still looking for talented writers like FB- so feel free to contact me at magforce@gmail.com if you're interested.