Not quite 110,000 visitor sessions last month, almost exactly the same as September.  Last month, I noted the geographic distribution of readers; this week, I’ll post a different bit of WebStat data, on the sites that refer readers to this site.  Here are the top ten:

Direct Access [ Hide ] [ Show original referers ]	64,691	60.2
google.com	18,948	17.6
crookedtimber.org	1,837	1.7
search.yahoo.com	1,546	1.4
google.co.uk	1,546	1.4
google.ca	1,267	1.2
leiterlawschool.typepad.com	1,077	1.0
pharyngula.org	1,033	1.0
philosophicalgourmet.com	607	0.6
lsolum.blogspot.com	501	0.5

This is a fairly typical "top ten" referrers, except for Pharyngula, who posted one provocative link last month which accounts for most of these visits (when he links to me, he is usually among the top ten referrers).  (There is a pleasant blogospheric story here:  when I first started linking to Pharyngula nearly two years ago, his site tended to average less than 1,000 visits per day, and mine often had more traffic than his; since then, he has been "discovered," and now averages more like 8,000 visits per day!  This is one of those rare cases of a blog justly winning a large audience thanks to good writing, wicked humor, and incisive and knowledgeable commentary.)  "Direct access" is an amalgamation of many of these referrers, plus others, and indicates, I take it, readers intending to come to this site.  Many of the google searches–maybe a third, as best I can tell–involve readers searching for other items that land them at this site; about half the google searches, it seems, are readers actually looking for this site.

Thanks for reading.