Over 135,000 visitor sessions last month, off slightly from April, and down 20,000 from the all-time high of March…but school is out in the U.S. and summer travels and jobs and research projects are here.  Happily, 135,000 visitor sessions for May is about the same number of visitors the site got in May 2005, when the law school updates were still here.  And it is more than double the number of visitors in May 2004.  Much of that increase is due to the wonderful, on-going guest bloggers who have joined the site.  And for June, remember, we have another:  Thomas Nadelhoffer.

Not much change in the top 20 referrers for May:

Direct Access [ Hide ] [ Show original referers ]	97,511	72.1
google.com	17,087	12.6
google.co.uk	1,528	1.1
crookedtimber.org	1,310	1.0
search.yahoo.com	1,111	0.8
google.ca	984	0.7
bloglines.com	925	0.7
juris.metanovus.com	597	0.4
tar.weatherson.net	578	0.4
leiterlawschool.type pad.com	528	0.4
philosophicalgourmet.com	523	0.4
lsolum.blogspot.com	469	0.3
leiterrankings.com	450	0.3
search.msn.com	415	0.3
aldaily.com	344	0.3
consc.net	316	0.2
google.com.au	310	0.2
onegoodmove.org	253	0.2
my.yahoo.com	247	0.2
google.de	220	0.2

The total number of referrers is, of course, much higher–there are hundreds–but most account for only about 1 out of every 1,000 visits to the site.

For amusement, here are the 20 cities responsible for the most visitors (this is cumulative over the life of the blog):

New York	New York	United States	67,224	4.0
Washington	District of Columbia	United States	50,944	3.0
Austin	Texas	United States	46,567	2.8
Chicago	Illinois	United States	43,365	2.6
Cambridge	Massachusetts	United States	31,821	1.9
Toronto	Ontario	Canada	31,093	1.9
Los Angeles	California	United States	31,011	1.8
Brooklyn	New York	United States	19,400	1.2
London	Lambeth	Great Britain (UK)	18,909	1.1
Oxford	Oxfordshire	Great Britain (UK)	17,893	1.1
Ithaca	New York	United States	17,808	1.1
Ann Arbor	Michigan	United States	17,436	1.0
Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States	16,898	1.0
Columbus	Ohio	United States	16,583	1.0
Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	United States	14,947	0.9
Houston	Texas	United States	13,609	0.8
Charlottesville	Virginia	United States	13,282	0.8
Saint Louis	Missouri	United States	12,722	0.8
San Diego	California	United States	12,461	0.7
Madison	Wisconsin	United States	12,051	0.7

Finally, I’ve made some minor changes to my rather short blogroll.  The deliciously wicked Dadahead has been quiet for awhile, so I’ve swapped that out for this clever young philosopher, whom we encountered in connection with the Jeff Goldstein "blog war."   As soon as Dadahead comes back to life, I’ll add that link back.  In the meantime, do enjoy Mr. Charlow, who is particularly amusing on the subject of this unhappy fellow.