I get asked about the stats on this site periodically and since I have not posted them in a while here are some current stats for the last 30 days:

• Average daily unique visitors: 217
• Highest number of unique visitors in a day: 822
• Average daily page loads (hits): 741
• Highest number of page loads (hits) in a day: 2,813
• Total unique visitors in the last 30 days: 6,730
• Total page loads (hits) in the last 30 days: 22,981

I was talking with John Wilson from the Chattanoogan.com and he had a day last week when he got over 80,000 unique visitors IN ONE DAY! Maybe some day!

P.S. if you are looking for good free stats I currently use Statcounter. You can sign up for them at www.statcounter.com

I have never posted photos here to win any awards or the ego boast that I get when you tell me that you like what I am doing. BUT I will say that the more people that come to this site, the more paid photo work I am getting. So this here comes the plea… If you like the photos you see here and are a regular visitor, go to the 2006 Photobloggies site and nominate me for whatever categories you see fit. May I suggest the “Best Kept Secret” or the “Best American Photoblog” categories for starts :)

Here is a link to the 2006 Photobloggies site. And this is the URL you should use to nominate my blog for any of the categories http://matt.dunmores.com/photoblog

Thanks to any of you who actually do go nominate!

I always find it funny the way spammers try to get around the spam protection on email and now blog comments. This is one that was worded to sound like the person was a real visitor but it had several links to “get cheap drugs” type of sites. It was funny so I am pasting in the comment here:

Hello there! Just want to say that I find your site enough interesting for me. Usefull information and all is good arranged. Thank you for your work. I will visit your site more ofter from now and I bookmarked it.

I got nailed with comment spam tonight. 68 of them! Grrrrrr… at least WordPress caught them all and asked me to moderate them. UPDATE: Make that 79!

So I was looking through my access logs on my server and found a strange reference a few months back. It was to a file I forgot I even had… Cubical Camo. I tracked down where the reference was coming from and come to find out some guy was hotlinking to my file (using my image from my server by referencing it on his site). I was not that worried about the image being used as it was not an artist work or anything I really care about. What I was really irritated about was the fact that he was hotlinking. Using my bandwidth to steal my image on his horrible site!

I emailed the character and asked him to stop hotlinking even attaching the file for his use from his own server. Then I forgot about it assuming he would do as asked. Well I was looking through the logs again this morning and found a few references again from his site. So… This is what he got! I gave him fair warning. If you are going to steal my files at least steal them, DON’T hotlink them!