January 2006 has been Deep Thought’s best month since its conception, boasting 1,755,736 hits, 74,582 unique visits and serving up a whopping 15,209,136 kilobytes (which comes out to 14.5 GB) of data.  The busiest days were the 10th, 11th and 19th, as our coverage of Macworld Expo and Nick’s review of iWeb brought massive piles of visitors to the site (as have the rest of the pieces of his review).

In comparison, the busiest month for Deep Thought before January was September 2005, which saw 1,090,738 hits and 40,667 unique visits.  September saw an average of 36,357 hits per day and 1,355 unique visits per day.  As of this writing, February is already at an average of 43,038 hits per day and 1,982 visits per day, meaning February could possible surpass January for overall traffic.  (Just for comparison, January had averages of 56,636 hits per day and 2,405 visits per day.)

On behalf of the entire Deep Thought staff, I’d like to thank all of you for visiting and leaving your comments.  We continually strive to offer excellent content and numbers like these are working fast to secure our reputation as a significant tech site.