This is a completely self indulgent post, I never really cared much about stats till this year. I would check them occasionally before but I never really appreciated them until the big Paris Hilton explosion early last year.
Now I check them religeously and I’ve been happy with the solid increase in traffic for this place, I guess that means I’m doing something right, right? Plus it gives me targets for this year…
Anyways, I’ve managed to slowly but surely build up a solid base of viewers:
Though my stats told me a different story when Paris exploded (it said 37.11GB was burned in one day for example) but February aside, things have been on the up and up, which only means good…
Windows users have been the dominant spieces, which is expected as Windows dominates the world anyways, and a big shout out to Amiga OS users… That’s hardcore… A more encouraging statistic comes from the browser share
Firefox claiming 15% of my readership, this time next year I’d hope it’ll be much much higher…
Finally how do people get here?
Natalie Portman? Lindsay Lohan? Jen Schefft? Nah… They can’t even touch the amount of people coming here looking for MSN Messenger 8.0 (so much so I had to close an unrelated post, but they still come asking for it…)
See, I told you this was self indulgent… Now I have to hide as my hosts will kill me for killing the server CPU while I got these stats together, apparently I’m one of their bandwidth hogging customers.
I’m sure you already realized it, but here’s your problem with that post:
Seems it was a perpetuating cycle. Once one person posted a comment saying “MSN Messenger 8.0″, more people were able to get to it because more people were finding it through the Google search. And once more and more dumbasses posted comments, the Google summary made it seem relevant… making the page more and more popular. Bummer…
I know you’re a purest and all… but dare I suggest deleting those comments? Even though you’ve closed the post, you’d still get 5.5% of your traffic from people mistakenly looking for MSN Messenger 8.0, which are people who probably wouldn’t become “regulars” because (from my observations from the reading the comments, mind you) they look like they can’t even speak English… let alone have the necessary brainpower to recognize the intelligence or wit in your rantings. ;)
Besides, it’s inflating your stats. Wouldn’t you rather have an honest depiction of the number of people who are actually reading your site?
Those are some real big numbers.
Put my ickle site to shame..