I noticed interestingly that Kate at Small Dead Animals posted her 2005 servers stats and, being a pig to stats, thought I would compare. GX40 has been in someting of a slide since the summer but I think that it is down to the trimming of the Red Ensign bloggers plus some cutting back on spamming. That is what I think. Sure. SDA got a massive boost in the Gomery that has stayed. I got a similar lift which has slowly glided. I have also added Chumptastic as he keeps his stats public. The Chumpster moved from Kingston to Toronto and his stats were affected. What do these stats mean?

a. Gen X at 40 for 2005:

b. A Good Beer Blog for 2005:

c. Small Dead Animals for 2005 (screen shot form that site):

d. Chumptastic for 2005 (screen shot form that site):

e. Kinsella for 2005 (screen shot form that site):

Note #1: I feel I am inordinately high on my monthly visits to unique visitors ratio on GX40. As I still get 2000 uniques a day I have some comfort but the arc is not so warming. [Later] But have a look at this graph from the Truth Laid Bear for the last month:

It may be ok after all.

Note #2: neither a December CBC gig or a November link from the Instapundit had much of a long term effect on GX40.

Note #3: A Good Beer Blog has hit the second page of the search results for the word "beer" - a very nice bit of feedback: