I was thinking that it had to do with statistics over a long time period after a post is published, compared to short term stats for fresh pages, especially since I noted that the GA numbers were substantially higher than the FeedBurner stats. If you thought of it too, it must be a reasonable explanation.

Gabriela -

Thanks for the note. Regarding advice for a blogger, I’d say write about something you’re interested in, or you’ll never stick with it. Write regularly and write often, at least a couple times a week. Don’t worry if your writing isn’t perfect, it will improve.

Goals for 2009? Migrate to a new template, for one. This was a 2008 goal, I even purchased a decent template (Thesis), but never had time to make the transition. I even was going to work on it over the holidays, but then a client needed a lot of hands on attention. There are also some streamlining details, as well as keeping to a 3-5 post per week schedule. There’s no real shortage of ideas, just of time, especially with keeping the business running.

Congratulations. Good numbers. It is not a surprise with such a good quality blog. When I see a site like yours, I don’t understand how a person can find the time to do something like this, just to help others and make theirs life easier.

What advice would you give to a new blogger?
Do you have any specific goal for 2009 for your site or blog?

I understand why the most-read might not overlap with the most-commented, but the Feedburner list overlaps reasonably well with the comments. I’m surprised that the Google Analytics list overlaps so little with commented posts. Again, I suppose that’s a function of it being a count of posts read weeks and months after they were written: few people will comment on an old post, but many will comment on a fresh one. But people are as happy to read an old post as a fresh one.