due to a lack of knitting (i'm chugging away on the sock and that's it) and the fact that i'm knee-deep in a new freelance project, i bring you... filler. some of you may find this interesting, others may not. if you have a blog of your own, though, i highly recommend reading through. i'll keep it short on words, high on graphics.
as of today, gleek.net's stats are as follows:
holding strong at 412 entries (this entry is 413) and over 3000 comments! i'm glad i'm taking the time to post more often now. it's good to be back in touch.. and it also seems that posting more often brings more traffic to my site. let's take a look at my visits stats (all of the following are from my mint installation):
as you can see, january gave me my largest spike in almost a year. i have a feeling that i have a lot of new readers! i love how the day breaks down on the left.. 10PM ET seems to be a popular time to surf my site.
looks like the patterns page and the index get the most traffic around here. i wish i was a little more diligent about putting links into del.icio.us. my ravelry queue has taken over there. still, i think that my vino arm warmers bring in a lot of traffic (see below). after that, i'm glad to see the peanut is well-loved! and so is the gallery.
i was surprised to see how many people searched for "arm warmers" and ended up on my site. possibly as surprised as seeing people search for "oreo pizza" and "care bears". mint is great. really, i'm still awed by it every time i come to look at my stats. the little image icon next to some of the searches like "gable" means that the person did an image search (either on google images or a similar image search engine) and ended up on my site.
now let's talk about browsers because i'm sure that's what most people want to know about. IE still seems to dominate the scene i'm sad to report. please switch to firefox! i'm happy to see firefox's numbers so high. they weren't like this a year ago. i recently read about record numbers of FF users in europe so that might have something to do with it. seriously, folks, IE is not secure. it's riddled with bugs and will certainly force you to reinstall windows a hundred times because it's been hacked without you knowing it. firefox is the bomb! just today i installed a great add-on called greasemonkey that allows me to add enhancements to flickr. so cool!
no real surprise here. windows is still leading but mac is catching up! who's been accessing my site with a wii? i would love to see what it looks like! we access gleek.net at home with our playstation 3 every now and again. i'm happy to say it works like a charm.
this one blew me away. i had no idea that google reader had such a following! i knew that bloglines was top but i always thought that newsgator would come in second. guess not.
speaking of RSS readers, here's a quick look at my feed subscribers. looks like i'm averaging around 145 daily scribs per week. nice.
this panel is a little hard to read (i wish there was a better way of showing this information) but it looks like most people view gleek.net at a window width of over 900 pixels. there seem to be a lot more people out there with smaller monitors than i would have hoped for. i guess i shouldn't make my site wider, eh?
and last but not least, my favorite panel, locations. check out india! turkey! korea! holy moses. my favorite: lithuania. did you know that my husband is part lithuanian? it's where our last name comes from.
anyway, i hope you all find this interesting and useful! i hope to do it every year and take a look at trends. chime in if you have something to add or, dude, if you're reading from india! turkey! or korea! say hi :)
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