Statistics
I watched as the hype over Mint reared it’s head and then calmed down again. While it was going on I had a look around to see what the competition had to offer. Much to my surprise, nothing seemed to have the ease of installation and use, so I gave it a try. Guess what? I kinda like it, much to my surprise.
What have I learnt from it so far?
Only 8% of my visitors run their monitors at 800×600.
Internet Explorer is used by 66% with Firefox running at 25%.
Windows takes 89%, Mac 9% and Linux 2%.
Most visitors come via Google with the other search engines trailing way behind.
Links on the Textdrive forum, Textpattern forum and Textpattern Magazine all bring in a scattering of visitors.
Friends sites do well, with Luc leading, trailed my Gordon and Gavin coming close behind.
These are my visitors languages in order of popularity:
- English
- German
- French
- Dutch
- Turkish
- Italian
- Swedish
- Japanese
- Hebrew
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- (Polish
- Norwegian
- Russian
- Finnish
Quite how Turkish ranks so high is quite frankly beyond me!
Last, but not least, and also accounting for many of the non-English speaking visitors, the most popular search term used that brings me visitors is:
‘penguin bashing’
You could knock me down with a feather, what the?
These people come looking for the Yetisports games that I have mentioned once or twice and account for nearly 30% of my visitors! All I can say to this revelation is – Fucking Hell!
Lastly, I find that many search-victims arrive due to Google et al not comprehending what they index. The following should illustrate that:
Searched – thunder mountain choppers.
Found – A mention of a mountain visited during a trip to a motorcyle event.
Searched – rules “alien numbers” game.
Found – A piece regarding a game I designed using Basic on a Sinclair Spectrum some decades back.
Searched – anthony czak.
Found – An article about the destrution of original Elvis Presley master tapes that mentions the historian Jim Czak.
And finally, my favourite of all the search terms that have brought me visitors:
Searched – diddly umptious.
Found – Me praising my Wife’s earliest attempt at cooking me a curry! What on Earth could they have truly been searching for?