Stats: August 2005

I was looking over this blog’s visitor stats and thought I’d let you in on the data for last month:

  • unique visitors: 4433 (down 300 from previous month)
  • page views: 6315 (down 183 from previous month)
  • top 3 referring TLDs:
  • .com – 1220
  • .uk – 179
  • .ro – 123
  • top 3 referring search engines:
    • Google – 1888
    • Altavista – 150
    • Yahoo! – 45
  • top 5 Google search strings
    • veridian room – although it’s misspelt
    • michael jordan’s house
    • philips perfectdraft
    • sopranos theme
    • thecrims
  • top Altavista search strings are all for Smash Mouth’s “All Star”
  • top 3 most visited pages
  • top browsers
    • IE – 67.39% (down 4% from previous month)
    • Firefox – 20.19% (up 2.8% from previous month)
  • screen resolutions larger than 800×600: all except 0.2% having 640%480 and 4.56% unknown
  • operating systems
    • Mac – 4.67% MacOSX + 0.56% Mac Power PC
    • Unknown – 2.45%
    • Linux – 1.32%
    • Windoze – you figure out the rest, it’s too many flavours to sum up (largest cut is Windows Xp – 76.32%)

    That’s it for now, I’ll be making another one in January with all year round stats.

    HOAX: Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index

    If you want to have a good laugh:

    Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to “organize the world’s information,” announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index.

    This could explain why they’ve launched a desktop search tool. Via the ONION!