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I meant to pay better attention to this, but it got lost in the shuffle over the past few weeks. BSD passed the 20,000,000 page view threshold not too long ago, and ABSOLUTELY ALL OF THEM HAVE OCCURRED SINCE LAST JULY SHUT UP YOU GUYS.

Here are some other numbers, fresh from my handy little admin dashboard. I know some people have asked about this stuff in the past, so here you go:

8,971,054 Visits

20,187,030 Page Views

4,117 Stories

3,730 FanPosts

3,579 FanShots

4,688 Members


Not counted in the official statistics:

38,284 "your mom sounds hot"

7,392 bunnies

233 BSD After Dark threads

3 blog wars

If you have any additional questions (or feel like adding a few stats of your own) feel free to do so below.

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Hmmmmm

What are FanShots?

FUN FACT.

Only 17 Fanshots have actually been read.

Chris - you sister in law was not impressed.

She claims “just goes to show you how many psu nerds love the internet”.

Don’t worry all…I swiftly kicked her in the tw*t.

My pimp hand is still strong and she is back in line.

you kick with your hand?
Actually...I am afraid of my wife. She is straight out of Brooklyn
who doesn't kick with their hand?

I just went over 3000 comments
AKA...the amount of comments Rambler would have had in his brief absence so far
I read that as
the amount of comments Rambler would have had in his briefs so far
I've been filling in.

Not to fully on Rambler level. But I’ve made up some of the lost production.

Y'all do realize

that for just over three years, RR averaged a comment every 32 minutes?

There should be a separate category...

for open thread comments.

It’s not really the same thing.

There should also be a seperate category

For thread jacks.

I highly enjoy them, and comment more to that than anything else, especially when they occur in threads that are rehashing old arguments about IT.

I'm a fan of them

Especially within the last few days.

Side note, nothing is better than a solid whiskey discussion. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from my friends on BSD about whiskeys, and received some fantastic suggestions.

Some can get really interesting

My favorite so far was the Breakfast meat discussing, I inadvertantly started last week. That was some good times to be had.

Not a fan of whiskey, vodka guy, and there really isn’t much you can say about vodka. I guess you can argue which is the best, or what drinks are the best made with vodka.

Anytime now that I see a thread going a couple hundred comments, usually it is about IT and I really don’t go there, unless I see a thread jack and then will whole heartedly participate. And obvioulsy throw in a few bunnies when needed.

Vodka is great

because it’s a perfect canvas to make any flavored liquor you want.

That

And it is delicious.

But it really is the perfect type of liquor to mix alot of different things with. Especially if someone doesn’t like a strong liquor taste, a few vodka drinks will get the job done easily, and you might never taste the vodka (if made correctly)

Even cheap, crappy vodka is useful

I only use the cheapest, dirtiest vodka I can when I make vodka sauce. The point is to add flavor, which the good stuff doesn’t have because it’s filtered so well.

I’m also a big bloody mary guy. The Absolut Peppar stuff is fantastic for them.

A good cheap Vodka is a good find

I am a Stoli guy myself. usualy order Vodka tonic when at a bar, since many don’t know how to properly make other drinks I like, especially the double 07 drink.

I have fallen in love with the Sweat Tea vodka, mix that with lemonade, and get a John Daly (Drunken Arnold Palmer) it is highly refreshing and very tasty,

Absolut Ruby Red and Tonic is very refreshing and delicious
I just started drinking vodka instead of beer,

but I don’t like tonic, so what’s something else that is low or no calorie that I can get at a bar? At home I’ve been using Crystal Light!

There are a few things

Cranberry, get your antioxidents from that. Can also do my favorite, the double 07, orange vodka, with OJ and a splash of Club, very refreshing.

Hate cranberries.
Actually, (don't laugh) Diet Dr. Pepper with a twist of lime works well.

Also, since you are in the south you likely have a Sonic handy. Vodka blends wonderfully with that outstanding diet limeaide they now sell.

I actually started mixing at home

With Diet Snapple lemon, and it is really good.

Thanks guys!

And what’s a good vodka to buy that’s not going to break the bank? I’ve bought SKYY so far.

See if you can find Tito's Handmade over there.

It comes from Austin and is fantastic. My wife has two bottles packed in my car as a write (we are off for our annual four days of Carnival debauchery in New Orleans once I teach these two damn classes).

Anything acidic will mix great

AKA, if it has something to do with citrus, it will also have something to do with vodka.

titos is f*cking fantastic
Laissez les bons temps rouler!

I head to NOLA next Monday. Will miss all the best debauchery.

My favorite brand is Stoli

But also Absolute is not bad, for a cheaper variety.

Absolute is great if you want to have variety on hand

not too expensive, but still good.

I love Stoli. Right now I have plain, vanilla and cherry in my freezer. Stoli strawberry with champagne is one of my favorites things also. The smell of ice cold Stoli strawberry is fantastic without even tasting it.

Some of the sweet tea ones are very reasonable

great with lemonade

Sweet Carolina Vodka

Great stuff, and several flavors, prefer the raspberry one, with lemonade…ie the John Daly (drunken Arnold Palmer). They also came out with a Lemonade Vodka through Sweet Carloina, not to bad at all, remniscent of Limoncello.

Pelligrino and lemon juice concentrate.

Trust me on this.

Grapefruit juice
a slice of lime,

Greygoose and a slice of lime is all I need.

with the Absolute Ruby Red

club soda would be good, but if you don’t like tonic you may not like that.

Thanks for all of the suggestions, guys!

Screen printed for the store later on!

Bloody Marys are fantastic

The only time I switch from bloody marys are in the fall when there is fresh apple cider. A handle of Captain Morgan mixed with a gallon of apple cider and a little bit of cinnamon heated slightly is the perfect october tailgate starter. It is a dangerous concoction, but well worth it

I don't doubt it.

That sounds amazing.

My GF, with very discerning taste buds,

Has no problem really putting the stuff back.

Its best to only make a set amount, and then switch it up to beer later.

Rule number 1 for lasting all day: plan ahead when sober to remove dangerous/destructive options when drunk, because you definitely won’t make the best decision then

I find also

A few gatorades helps with an all day drink fest. Will replenish your electrolites and keep you going.

Brawndo!

It’s got what plants crave!

I use the cheap vodka for basic jello shots

but sometimes I go gourmet

Cherry jello with Stoli vanilla
Orange jello with Absolut Mandarin

yum

Yeah you going high end with jello-shots

I have made them with grain in college…didn’t tell anyone, yeah people got messed up on them.

that is not even nice

I have used tequila with lime jello, it was not too bad but I am not friends with tequila anymore so I did not enjoy it. Or the smell that wafted out of the fridge every time I opened it.

Ugh

I hear you on that one letsgo. At my buddy’s bachelor party last May, we made something like 160 jello shots. Tequila with lime, Orange with Madarin, etc. Most of them were delicious except for the Tequila ones. Tequila and I don’t get along so, as you said, everytime I opened the cooler I wanted to hurl. Not very fun. Especially when my friends harassed me until I took one of the Tequila ones. Great friends.

Tequila is evil.

THE. END.

pretty much every one of my "bad" drinking nights involved tequila

usually towards the end (at least of what I remember)

One really bad one,

was all it took for me.

As the wise Jim Breuer says

it’s like a party in your stomach. When tequila shows up, it always starts with one but then tequila tries to bring all his friends.

I love that skit for how honest it is
If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times

What kind of human looks at an agave plant and thinks, “yeah, i could make something to drink out of that.” Therein lies your problem.

probably a descendent of the first person to eat cheese.

oh, look over there, some rotting, spoiled, disgusting milk. Well, I guess I’ll give it a taste.

Gotta go one step backward

Who was the first people to look at a cow’s utter, and say, wahtever comes out of that I will drink?

or looked at a chicken and said

the next thing out of that things butt is mine.

Crabs, clams, scallops, and shrimp are all some of my favorite things...

and there’s not a one of them I would want to eat after having looked at them.

Of course, tequila is my favorite. Mister Beam is the guy who usually has me regretting my bad decisions in the morning.

if you were REALLY good friends with Mr. Beam

he would use his MIB memory eraser on you whenever you hung out.

Its either tequilla or whiskey that does me in

The difference is tequilla sucks.

I can't do straight Jager anymore

Got real messed up on it once, can’t touch it since.

I have two drinking episodes where I do not remember hours of time

One involved tequila and a Buffett show.

The other featured mimosas, Blackhaus (it was new and they were giving it away for free at a chili cookoff) and other fun items the guys at the Grateful Dead Chili booth next to ours gave me.

I've never heard of crabs described as a "fun item"

Unless one ordering it off of a seafood menu.

Wife makes a drink with Blackhaus.
2 parts cranberry
1 part Blackhaus
splash of sours mix
Tastes like swedish fish.

I can't smell the stuff after that episode
Used to hammer the Old Mister Boston Vodka.
Best thing to do with cheap, crappy vodka

is make your own pepper vodka .. cut up your peppers of choice, i use a mix of jalapeno, scotch bonnet and thai chilies and put em in the bottle for about a week.. drain/strain and voila pepper vodka that’ll blow away anything you can buy… works with lemon too (just use like the zest of 3-4 lemons)

There are a few things like this you can do

One is to get a full bunch of lemons and sugar, sut the lemons in half, add about 2 cups of sugar to a full bottle of vodak, and let it sit until the sugar completely dissolves…and you have some good drinking, very potent.

Can also take jolly ranchers and drop them in a bottle of vodka, wait util they all dissolve, and same effect.

Here's what I like to do

-Buy a bottle of whiskey/bourbon/scotch
-Drink it
-Feel like a man

To be fair

Those drinks I made in college, when a real cheap bottle of vodka taasted like metal, so needed something to sweeten them up to the point I can stand getting drunk off them.

Now I am pretty much exclusively Vodka tonics.

Real men drink brown liquor.
Freshman year of high school

One of the seniors on the baseball team imparted this little bit of wisdom with me…if it’s black send it back, If it’s brown, drink it down.

Hmmm...

I think whoever said that isn’t giving Gosling’s a fair chance.

Discovered the Dark & Stormy

on a trip to Bermuda last year . . . Gosling’s and ginger beer. Never liked rum much before, but now…

too bad he didn't give you any hitting tips.
I love a good vodka dirty martini

With blue cheese stuffed olives.

nothing, but nothing

will EVER top the Skins4ever thread. Ever.

Which one was that?
There have been a serious lack of bunnies lately.
Apparently you haven't been looking hard enough
You want bunny...I give you bunny

mmm...scrapple.
I passes 10,000 a few weeks ago.

I think the entire comment was “Right”.

apparently just passed 15,000, probably yesterday

I remember the days when I had more than Rambler, but I doubt I’ll be reaching the 40-50k mark any time soon.

I recently hit 1000 comments,

which seems like a lot to me, and makes me marvel at Rambler’s body of work here.

I recently broke 6000, didn't know that til I just checked.
It seems like the biggest factor in compiling a lot of comments

is participation in open threads, which I don’t do very often. The 2nd biggest factor seems to be participation in debates with M1EK.

Yup.

One and Two respectively.

you are a BSD All American!
Hurray!

Shake shake shake

Shake shake shake:

Shake your booty:

Shake your booty.

She will someday....

sue her school for concussion-like symptoms realized in her younger days as a member of the cheer squad. I don’t understand how she continued.

I know what you mean Derry

Everytime I watch that clip, I don’t think she will stand up, since her neck was snapped. Hard to watch actually.

have you seen some of the falls elite gymnasts take?

the balance beam is 4 inches of terror

She is hot.
Alicia Sacramone

she is one of my favorites. But she dates Brady Quinn. Ew.

Damn

Not as hot to me anymore, since she is with him.

She any relation to Johnny Sack?

Wasn’t his last name also supposed to be Sacramone? Maybe it was spelled differently, though…

After seeing how big Ginny was

I don’t think they’re related!

I used to think the same thing about Brady Quinn, too.

But then he went and did this – http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20536012,00.html. In short, he gave up his back-up QB role on the Broncos to fly out to Japan to be with Alicia when she had to get surgery on her achilles tendon. Even I have to admit – that’s pretty freaking romantic.

(It also opened the door for Tebow-mania, but lets be fair – that was inevitable.)

I just remember him sweating it out on draft day

I lol’d

Miyagi-san!

It is the Crane!

Only 7392 bunnies?

Whatever…thats cool.

Looks like Goth bunny.

Or maybe Flock of Seagulls bunny.

I thought he looked like

Hipster bunny myself.

I can definitely see that.
Real-life Babs Bunny?

Or Lola. They’re pink in the cartoons, but I’ve never seen a real-life pink bunny.

Pink bunny...I have

Still gives me nightmares.

As long as you don't tell my wife how much time I spend here

you can publish as many BSD milestones as you like.

I read......

everything that is printed on the BSDs, thank you and congratulations.

That 0-3-0 record in Blog Wars is killing my stats.
#Buckle Up
I sense a disturbance in the blogs.

I just hope M1EK isn’t my father.

Just watch out for heavily bankrolled guys.
It sounds like you're trolling up the score.
It's because you're abstaining too often these days

You passed on prime opportunities to slay ramzy & cook and you all invited kleph in for a ‘hey pal come be friends and kick us in the nuts.’

Still, you look like you might be headed for a win (or at least another match) if Ben Jones keeps up the recruiting pursuits at statecollege.com.

I have been critical of people on this blog before (though not for a long while)

But Christ, if I had to read blogs with guys like Ramzy or Cook writing on them, I’d kill everything that ever lived. Lawdhamercy, those guys stand out as smug pricks, even against a background littered with some of the smugger pricks one could ever encounter. It’s pretty remarkable, actually.

Yea, I just don't have the energy for a full-scale blog war these days.

Especially since I actually like the recruiting guys (and some others) at 11W and mGo. kleph holds a new, not-so-special place in my heart after Paterno’s death (that’s as far as I’ll go on the record).

But I see you still have energy for the smaller, Twitter fights

Which I’m fine with, because I’ll be damned if they don’t make me laugh.

You'll notice I don't start them.

Others feel the need to attack.

You know what they say...

Indeed, and that's what makes it even better

The “Cosmo is a jump up from Disney” argument might be one of my favorites of all time.

Is that what the link was?

I didn’t click on it. Mostly because I don’t care enough to. And “Cosmo” as in the magazine? Furreal??

Yeah, my curiosity got the better of me

And yes, it was a couple of pictures she must have done for Cosmo, the magazine. Maybe one of these days she’ll do a show/movie for one of those naughty cable channels like Comedy Central or FX.

I wonder what he'll do when she appears in a magazine he doesn't read...
what got the #buckleup kid all riled up today?
You'd have to ask him. His random craziness just pops up on random days.
He regularly trolls Junny about recruiting coverage

It’s a broken record really

Mountebank.

Love SNL celebrity Jeopardy

I love Turd Ferguson.
Big hat

Its funny

Alright, time to explain the internet to me

Difference between visits and page views?
Also, are these 8.9 visits since BSD started way back whenever?

Crudely.

Visits = Number of people
PV’s = Number of pages viewed by all those people

For BSD, the PV to Visits ratio generally seems to be a slight bit over 2:1 each month:

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s26blackshoediaries&r=33

And yes, the totals in the post are since the very beginning.

A visit is you coming here. A pageview is the number of pages...you view.

Think of it like visiting a house. The visit is you getting there, the pageview is the number of rooms you see.

And I’m sure those numbers are from the beginning, though I’m not exactly sure when that officially was (actual BSD vs. SBN BSD).

Weirdly enough...

Sitemeter has lower numbers for the history of the site (though that could be due to Sitemeter being installed after SBN BSD was up and running many years ago…I don’t know):

VISITS

Total 8,721,196
Average Per Day 11,164
Average Visit Length 3:29
Last Hour 652
Today 10,945
This Week 78,149

PAGE VIEWS

Total 19,716,223
Average Per Day 24,556
Average Per Visit 2.2
Last Hour 1,499
Today 23,180
This Week 171,889

That is all well and good

But how close are we to total Internet domination?

Gotta tell my peeps about last night's insane dream.

was on the golf course with RUTS, TS, and some other old friends.

The group in front of us was very slow and we were getting pissed…the group behind us kept hitting balls landing in our area so we would throw them in the water or back at them.

Here is the good part…we confront the group and I get in fight with Jim Cantafio…I am screaming “do you have any pride”…I woke up and every muscle in my body is tense…can’t fall back asleep.

Nothing to do with this thread but had to share.

I thought we

talked about you not dropping any more acid?

Chris,

do you have numbers for unique visitors?

How do you capture a rare bunny?

Unique up on it.

We may need a fanpost for telling of

the commentariats favorite puns/groaners…

Pretty sure the bunny count is low

I personally have posted 3497 in the last two weeks.

Glitter bunny says hello.

While I approve

Everyone has to remember to put a title to their pictures.

So do these numbers mean we are an elite blog??
Not Virginia Tech elite
By SBN metrics, at least

I believe we’ve jumped to No. 2 in college blog viewing numbers. I forget who No. 1 is, but BON, EDSBS, RBR and Testudo Times used to be up there (and probably still are).

I would have guessed the first three,

but Testudo Times surprises me.

Testudo Times is a funny story.

I don’t know how much I can share, but their numbers have basically been artificially inflated without the knowledge of the people running it.

I’m pretty sure we had more PV’s than EDSBS during the last three months of 2011 and I can't possibly imagine why

I'm sure it was the start of basketball season

and the excitement generated by having a new hoops coach.

Or Junny's recruiting coverage

and the ensuing meltdowns that some people have over it

How does that even happen?

I’m no technocrat and if you can’t share that’s understandable, but I’m curious as hell how A. any site artifically enhances their pages views (bots of some sort?) B. It happens without management knowing and C. Why a 3rd party would want to arificially inflate someone elses numbers.

Short answers!

A) Yes.
B) For a while!
C) Someone was bored.

People are stupid

one of my company’s competitors combined their visits from two different sources and reported it as their total site visits.

We have other competitors that make a very large network of independent contractors (Realtors®) go through their public site to access their intranet.

But do you think

we’ll get enough support from the coaches’ poll to get us in the MNC game, or will there be a rematch of the SEC blogs?

Can't we just have a Blog Playoff already?
They're just so obviously the two best blogs

and the rest of the blogosphere is just jealous.

5647 spelling/gramatical errors by myself
I think you are underestimating yourself.

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