It’s time for another edition of the Chuggnutt Zeitgeist, in the spirit of Google and since I did one last year. Interesting stuff, if you’re into blogs and stats and such. On to it!

• Number of blog entries: 244. Last year: 306.
• Approximate total number of words: 39,810. Last year: 45,537
• Average words per blog entry: 163.2. Last year: 148.8
  It only looks like I wrote less than last year, but you know what? I was also writing on The Brew Site. I’m doing a Zeitgeist post over there too, but the quick numbers are 222 posts and 38,371 words… which combined, yields 466 posts and 78,181 words. Surpassed!
• Total visitors: 633,110. This is unfiltered, so it includes bots, spiders, RSS readers, etc. Last year: 242,433
• Average visitors per day: 1,734. Last year: 687
• Total real visitors (approximate): 430,505. This is the actual number, with most of the bots and such filtered out.
• Average real visitors per day: 1,179
  This year I made the attempt to show actual visitors to the site, not just the automated stuff out there. To that end I filtered out anything identifying itself as a spider, known RSS feed slurpers/readers, bots, crawlers, and non-browser agents. I didn’t get everything out, but this is a pretty decent snapshot. Note this doesn’t speak to unique visitors; the stat package I’m using doesn’t classify that and I’m not using Sitemeter or anything that supposedly tracks unique visitors. I imagine a good part of the total visitors are repeat visits, so I won’t hazard a guess as to how many unique hits are there.
• The most active month was October, by a long shot, because of the Burger King mask post—people were hammering this post looking for a Burger King Halloween costume. Not surprisingly, this post has also garnered the most comments: 673
• There were three days on which traffic spiked considerably: April 30, with 9,152 visitors; July 20, with 7,575 visitors; and August 18, with 8,915 visitors. Unsurprisingly, those appear to be times when I was FARKed—that is, someone linked to one of my pictures from the FARK forums.
• Ten most popular blog entries:
  1. The Burger King creeps me out: 28,910
  2. Houston’s glass public toilet: 9,610
  3. My Burger King mask post is on fire!: 9,511
  4. Goofy Burger King job flyer: 5,234
  5. The Donald Trump/Bend urban legend: 4,879
  6. Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo Baggins: 4,862
  7. Super Wal-Mart: 4,619
  8. Central Oregon’s biggest baby?: 3,821
  9. Leeroy Jenkins!: 3,781
  10. Never ending fall: 3,017
• Total number of comments (not counting spam): 1,556
• Most popular searches on this site:
  • burger king: 34
  • burger king mask [variants]: 24
  • i want to buy the burger king mask: 5
  • Beaubien [variants]: 28
  • z21: 27
  • ktvz: 8
  • html2text: 24
  • trump: 10 (plus 3 variants)
  • donald trump: 6
  • donald trump bend: 3
  • donald trump bend oregon rumor: 3
  • (Total Trump related: 25)
  • fantastic 4 cash card [variants]: 14
  • fantastic 4 [variants]: 16
  • bend oregon [variant]: 14
  • bend: 12
  • php: 12
  • blog: 12
  • amazon: 11
  • lovecraft: 10
• Ten most popular search engine searches landing here:
  1. burger king mask: 5,295
  2. boba fett: 3,086
  3. pdb reader: 1,972
  4. free palm ebooks: 1,805
  5. darth maul: 1,534
  6. kermit the frog: 1,376
  7. leeroy jenkins: 1,221
  8. www.amazon.com/burgerking: 1,210
  9. super walmart: 973
  10. palm reader: 877
• Top five search engines:
  1. Google: 72,180
  2. Yahoo: 20,629
  3. MSN: 4,042
  4. AskJeeves: 1,259
  5. AOL Search: 1,061
• Here’s the approximate breakdown of browsers and agents, gleaned from the full numbers:
  • Internet Explorer: 61% of all traffic
  • Mozilla/Netscape browsers (Firefox mostly, I think): 23%
  • Opera: 1%
  • RSS readers/agents: 2%
  • Bots/search engine crawlers: 8.2%
  • Other stuff (random bots, feed readers, crawlers, obscure browsers): 4.8%
• Among real visitors, some surprises in country of origin (I’m not listing all country stats here; suffice to say, the U.S. and Canada are the top two):
  • China: 13,221 visitors
  • Malaysia: 1,930
  • Uruguay: 1,371
  • Sweden: 912
  • Saudi Arabia: 899
  • Greece: 524
  • Iran: 450

  I’m surprised I’m that popular in China.