July on this blog

Yes it's that time of the month again! Earlier stats can be found at the pages for February, March, April, May and June.

First off the sites most people come from:

1. Mars Hill (+1)
   
2. Blogger.com (-1)
   
3. Google (-)
   
4. The Vented Spleen (-)
   
5. Cally's Kitchen (+5)
   
6. Jo Salmon (-)
   
7. My Yahoo! (NEW)
   
8. Conservative Mind (+3)
   
9. Take back the voice (-2)
   
10. Antonia Bance (-1)

Dropping out of the top ten altogether are Iain Dale's Diary (at 11, down 3) and The Wonderful World of Lola (at 12, down 7).

Jo Salmon continues to occupy number 6 on the list for the third month in a row. Is she going to move in there permanently? ;)

The My Yahoo! link is one of the strangest as I can't see what the page referring people here is. Can any of you tell me?

Then we have the top ten search engine requests that brought people here:

1. what does your birthday say about you (+1)
   
2. tim roll-pickering (-1)
   
3. abolish council tax exemption students (NEW)
   
4. official monster raving loony party, address of croydon branch (NEW)
   
5. stanley baldwin sounds of england
   
6. doctor who tonight (NEW)
   
7. laura blomeley (re-entry)
   
8. return of the hero (NEW)
   
9. local borough of sutton andrew theobald (NEW)
   
10. 'academic assessment' 'waste of time' (NEW)

As ever a mixture of brand new terms and some ongoing ones. Some of the sillier other terms include:

• sutton surrey posh
  
• tim benjamin sheep
  
• eu langua franca
  
• liberal democratic (who's incharge of it?)
  
• true grit school uniforms
  
• matt pollard question time girlfriend
  
• rhonda paisley informal dress house of lords

Finally as ever we have a list of all the cities detected that people are in (although many are listed as "other"):

LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, LEEDS, OXFORD, NEWPORT, BROOKLYN, FLORENCE, SOUTHAMPTON, YORK, NORTHAMPTON, LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, VANCOUVER, SHEFFIELD, DULLES, NOTTINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, CAMBRIDGE, PERTH, CARDIFF, GLASGOW, MAIDENHEAD, CRAWLEY, LEICESTER, COVENTRY, MANCHESTER, BASILDON, WASHINGTON, EKATERINBURG, LOS ANGELES, HUDDERSFIELD, TORONTO, PHILADELPHIA, SAN FRANCISCO, SYDNEY, BRADFORD, BRIGHTON, CAPE TOWN, STOCKPORT, POUND RIDGE, A CORUñA, ST. LOUIS, SINGAPORE, ARLINGTON, PLANO, LUTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, HERNDON and "others".

Thank you all for reading!