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January 05, 2006
Blog Zeitgeist
Before I realized it, it has been a full year since I started posting to this blog. I have really enjoyed writing the various posts. My first goal has been and will be to continue putting out posts that will be useful to someone in some way. That, and to be the World's Largest Repository of Useless Knowledge. I am sure I haven't reached the second goal yet, but that doesn't prevent me from calling myself that, does it? I hope my regular and semi-regular readers keep coming to this blog for more of the same and I hope I get some new readers too. The next year will be interesting ride, to say the least, but I hope to keep the posts coming as often as I spot something I think my readers would like.
Well, for what it's worth, here's a few fun facts from my server logs over the last year:
• I got 50,869 hits from approximately 6,650 visitors, approximately 6% of who added my blog to their bookmarks.
• My blog is still worth $2,258.16.
• The top 5 most commonly searched term that led to my blog, i.e. the top few things that my visitors thought I was an authority on are: Numenoreans, French beards, nonveg jokes, prepone (see bottom) and indian aunties.
• I got my first marriage proposal via a blog comment.
• The IP addresses of my visitors came from 80 countries, the top five of which were the United States, India (.in), Australia (.au), the European Union (.eu) and the United Kingdom (.uk)
• Only 40% of my visitors used Internet Explorer! My readers are clearly technically savvy for roundly rejecting a browser that has a real market share upwards of 80%.
• Nearly a third of my requested files are XML/RDF files, meaning that they are from regular readers who use RSS readers.
• With respect to time of day, I got the most visits at midnight EST (say, when my U.S. readers were procrastinating on a late-night assignment) and at 10am EST (procrastination time in India -- 8:30pm). I also have a peak at 9pm EST in bandwidth in hits, which I think comes from comment-spamming bots.
• My top reader has been Punya and linking to his great blog is the least I can do in return.
Well, thanks for a good year. Thank you come again.
Posted by Vishy at January 5, 2006 08:25 PM