KYMN radio host Wayne Eddy keeps this sign hanging on the dashboard of his convertible. I’m not sure he wears spurs very often any more and I’m not sure he…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for August was up 3-6% from July, according to Google Analytics.
August compared to July:
- 6,548 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,305 (+3.85%)
- 16,569 Visits; Previous: 15,727 (+5.35%)
- 35,589 Pageviews; Previous: 33,554 (+6.06%)
Participation
We had 75 different commenters during the month of August. We’ve been averaging approximately 800 comments per month (by 60-80 different people) since March, 2009. Our all-time record was 1900 comments in October of 2008.
PageRank
Our Google PageRank value is 5 out of a possible 10 points according to PRChecker. (PageRank uses a base-10 logarithmic scale, same as the Richter scale. So a site with a PageRank of 5 has approximately ten times the traffic of a site with a PageRank of 4.)
Referrers
Where did our traffic come from? The top 50 (we thank you!) of the 265 referrers: (continued)
Last spring, the Northfield City Council adopted a vision statement and four goals for 2009. (See pages 47-56 of the April 6 meeting packet.) Two documents (PDFs) are now available on the Council’s web page: 1) a one-page vision and goals statement; 2) an eight-page outline of the goals and related initiatives. This new Council has been in office for 9 months; it’s been 5 months since the goals were adopted. How are they doing? (continued)
Cannon Falls-based whimsical artist Bryan Moon (see his James-Younger gang ‘cats’ painting) was a guest on KYMN’s Wayne Eddy Affair yesterday morning. In my photo, Bryan’s holding up a collection…
There must be others like me whose eyes glaze over when a discussion of local property taxes and the budget comes up. So let’s try to make sense of Northfield’s property taxes, both residential and commercial, and their relationship to the 2010 budget.
Resources: (continued)
I happened to be biking and walking in Carleton’s Upper Arb last night when the clouds parted a few minutes before sunset. Click the thumbnails once to see a medium-sized…
Our radio show/podcast guest this week: Amy Merritt, the new Executive Director of the Northfield Union of Youth, whose youth center is known as The Key. Former ED Josh Hinnencamp blogged about her hiring back in August.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
The Northfield Rotary Club has ten outbound Youth Exchange students for 2009-10 and thus far, four of them have blogs: Sam Estenson: One year in Japan Lauren Reed: To Finland!…
On Tuesday, Aug 11, I had a double red cell donation appointment at 1pm at the Northfield Ballroom. When I arrived, donors were told that some supplies had not yet arrived from St. Paul and that it would be a 45 minute delay. I had other things scheduled so I departed, irritated because they have my phone number and could have alerted me. But I’m more irritated now that no one has contacted me in the month since it happened.(continued)