June was an important month for Courant.com statistically, because its metrics show the impact of the website redesign and relaunch. The numbers were down slighty as readers have to relearn their way around the site. In any event, Courant.com had nearly 21 million page views in June, and 1.7 million “unique visitors.” That’s not counting Metromix, the entertainment site; or New Mass Media, the Advocates.

Obits are consistently among the most popular pages viewed, as are photo galleries. (Each gallery racks up a page view for each photo, so if you have 15 pix of Extreme Makeover in Suffield, and 10 people look at all the photos, you get 150 page views.)

Shawn Corchesne’s “Backstretch” blog was the most popular (as it often is) with more than 107,000 views for the month, but Capitol Watch and Roger Catlin were close with 93,000+ and 92,000+ respectively. (By way of comparison, this blog in the same month had 15,459 hits. I don’t have unique visitor data, but in my view, each of you is unique.)