With the possible exception of the night of the US Presidential Election in November when we were recording usage in a different way this has been the site’s busiest day ever.

We are tops for unique users, page views and overall hits.

Thank you Howard Flight, thanks to all those who have made contributions and thank you to everybody for who has visited us. I am especially grateful to all those making comments who have kept within the ethos of the site of maintaining an environment where people from right across the political spectrum can feel comfortable taking part.

If you haven’t voted yet in the Guardian “Blog of the Year” contest then please do so. We need every vote and the poll closes on April 4th. Tell your friends.

Happy Easter.

Mike Smithson