Given that I just reread High Fidelity, I can scarcely refrain from the current trend for listing a top 5 group of referrers. My stats counter only gives this ranking on a “lifetime’ basis, so I need to aggregate across various incarnations of the same blog, and this makes the actual ranking a bit tenuous.With that caveat regarding order, my all-time top 5 referrers are:
Jason Soon;
Tim Dunlop;
Ken Parish;
Steven Den Beste; and
Me;

The first three don’t surprise me, and shouldn’t surprise anybody. These are the blogs I read most regularly, link to most often, comment on most frequently and generally regarded as my closest neighbours in the virtual world of Ozplogistan. Den Beste’s is the only one of the top-ranked US blogs I comment on with any frequency (generally critically) and he occasionally replies. Since he has about 50 times as many readers as I do, this invariably produces a huge but short-lived spike in visitor numbers – I guess the majority of USS Clueless fans are unlikely to become permanent readers of my blog.

Finally, when I started the blog I saw it in part as an exercise in cross-promotion with my website, and it has succeeded in this respect – I get more visitors to the website and a steady flow of referrals back to the blog. I didn’t realise, of course, that moving from running a website to running a blog was like going from marijuana to crack cocaine, but it’s too late now.