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Ms Sparky – wrapping up 2009

January 3, 2010 — Ms Sparky

Before I give you all the “Mosts for 2009″ I want to share some 2009 “MsSparky.com” stats with you . I realize these stats would be considered a failure for blogs such as the Huffington Post, but MsSparky.com has come a long way since I started keeping stats in June 2008 and I am very proud of that. It is “MsSparky.com” readers, commentors and guest writers (THANK YOU Forseti) who have contributed to these stats which ultimately results in getting the word out about KBR and contractor fraud in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait!

My goal for 2010 is to have numbers at least 5 times greater than 2009!

Month/Year	Unique Visitors	Total # of Visits	Total # of Pages Viewed	Hits
June 2008	171	520	3,538	7,133
January 2009	4,728	9,155	29,391	144,978
December 2009	23,014	48,392	558,638	1,691,847
Total for 2009	112,963	245,021	1,295,953	4,722,183

Technorati.com is a blog tracking and rating site. I tried to find the official number of blogs they tracked in 2009 and didn’t find it. But in 2008 it was over 113 million just English speaking blogs. I am expecting 2009 to be in the 100’s of millions of English speaking blogs. My Technorati Authority (rating) is 135. That puts MsSparky.com in the top 20,000 blogs that Technorati tracks. Yes….the Huffington Post is #1.

Total posts published for 2009
Written by “Ms Sparky” – 359
Written by “Forseti” – 37
Combined Total – 396

Top 10 Most Viewed Posts for 2009

Is DoD asleep on the job in Kuwait too? – 9316 views
KBR Loses Kuwait To DynCorp – 7773 views
No LOGCAP IV in Iraq? – 5499 views
KBR ALL HANDS: LOGCAP IV Announcement (Afghanistan) – 5174 views
KBR Loses Afghanistan to Fluor & Dyncorp – 4967 views
Has KBR Changed It’s “Electrician” Hiring Policy For Iraq and Afghanistan? – 4750 views
DoD contractor discloses Social Security numbers for 269 employees – 4531 views
You Didn’t Work For KBR in Iraq and Afghanistan-VOE – 4053 views
Audit warns KBR to cut number of employees in Iraq – 3970 views
KBR Cancels Jobs For LOGCAP – 3817 views

Total comments for 2009
Approved comments – 3937
Deleted inappropriate comments – I didn’t keep track, but I would guess it was less than 1% of the total approved
Legitimate deleted SPAM comments – 7868

Top 10 Most Commented Posts in 2009

DoD contractor discloses Social Security numbers for 269 employees – 192 comments
Is DoD asleep on the job in Kuwait too? – 179 comments
Texas Deer Hunting….(aka bait and wait!) – 144 comments (this old post got resurrected in late December ‘09 by some Texas deer hunters. I probably deleted 1/3 of the comments because they were so vile. I finally just quit engaging with them.)
KBR Loses Kuwait To DynCorp – 127 comments ( most of the comments on this post were in 2009)
Is Dyncorp hiring employees or asking for volunteers in Afghanistan? – 104 comments
Fluor’s LOCAP IV offer for KBR employees in Afghanistan – 95 comments
Stanley Baker Hill’s (SBH) answer to their release of 269 Social Security Numbers – 90 Comments
KBR, Dyncorp, Fluor and the LOGCAP IV transisition? – 82 comments
KBR Loses Afghanistan to Fluor & Dyncorp – 78 comments
KBR ALL HANDS: LOGCAP IV Announcement (Afghanistan) – 74 comments

The evolution of MsSparky.com for 2009 was amazing. Although I am still working out bugs, the theme and logo change was very positive.

My 2010 goals for MsSparky.com are:

Increase legitimate traffic by 5 times. That will be 5 times more people who will know what is going on.
Maybe take some select advertising. As long as the advertising doesn’t define how I blog or what I blog about. Now I will have to learn how to do that!
There has been quite a bit of request for Ms Sparky products…bumper stickers, t-shirts, coffee mugs etc. I would like to finish developing the “Ms Sparky” product line and see how that goes. Any ideas on that would be great!

Within the next day or so I will be posting my 2009 list of MsSparky.com heroes.

Happy New Year everyone. Here’s to a great 2010!

Ms Sparky