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:
- The Burger King creeps me out: 28,910
- Houston’s glass public toilet: 9,610
- My Burger King mask post is on fire!: 9,511
- Goofy Burger King job flyer: 5,234
- The Donald Trump/Bend urban legend: 4,879
- Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo Baggins: 4,862
- Super Wal-Mart: 4,619
- Central Oregon’s biggest baby?: 3,821
- Leeroy Jenkins!: 3,781
- 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:
- burger king mask: 5,295
- boba fett: 3,086
- pdb reader: 1,972
- free palm ebooks: 1,805
- darth maul: 1,534
- kermit the frog: 1,376
- leeroy jenkins: 1,221
- www.amazon.com/burgerking: 1,210
- super walmart: 973
- palm reader: 877
- Top five search engines:
- Google: 72,180
- Yahoo: 20,629
- MSN: 4,042
- AskJeeves: 1,259
- 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.
Now, all you have to do is write a post about Donald Trump visting Bend and wearing a Burger King mask.
It would be an instant Slashdot effect.
dorks