It’s that time of year again! I’ve collected the data, crunched the numbers, and have now published the data for Andrew Ferguson dot NET 2008 . As always, these stats mean practically nothing. They are fun (and at time, amusing) to look at, that’s it. Enjoy and Happy New Year!
Here are the top ten search terms for 20081:
- countdown timer
- andrew ferguson
- cgi
- blockquote cite
- deanne bell
- ben towne
- mafalda
- how to tie a tie
- vault
- wordpress countdown
Top seven web crawlers for 20082:
- MSNBot
- Yahoo Slurp
- Googlebot
- Ask
- Alexia
- Voila
- The Web Archive
Top eleven referring web crawlers for 20083:
- Google (including regular, Image, and Cache)
- Windows Live
- Yahoo!
- MSN Search
- Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)
- AOL
- Ask
- Dogpile
- AltaVista
- GoodSearch
- del.icio.us (Social Bookmark)
Top five identifiable operating systems for 20084:
- Windows
- Macintosh
- Linux
- BSD
- Sony PlayStation Portable
Top six identifiable Internet browsers for 20085:
- Internet Explorer: 48.9%
- MSIE 8: 0.2%
- MSIE 7: 31.7%
- MSIE 6: 16.4%
- MSIE 5.5: 0.1%
- Firefox: 35.1%
- FF 3.1: 0.1%
- FF 3.0: 16.6%
- FF 2.0: 16.4%
- FF 1.5: 1.5%
- Safari: 5.5%
- Mozilla: 2.0%
- Opera: 1.3%
- Netscape: 0.1%
- Transfer Contacts from/to Microsoft Outlook
- Adding User Photo to WordPress User Profiles
- Stevie Starr: The Regurgitator
- My House Will Have Bank Vault Door
- Information on Ben Towne
- Obama Coming to Colorado School of Mines
- How to Tie a Tie
- Google Chart API
- Combination Lock
- The Hunt for Toda Mafalda
Site visits over the entire year (the spike represents Obama’s visit to CSM)6:
Site visits over the year by regions7:
Bandwidth: 108.6 GB of data served89
Page views: 108,73910 or 126,62111 or 1,224,9881213
Absolute unique visits: 81,11814
Posts: 223 (inclusive)
Comments by me: 203
Comments not by me: 594
Flickr Stats at the end of 200815:
Photos: 10,604
Videos: 21
Tagged: 8,539
Not tagged: 2,086
Geotagged: 5,084
Not geotagged: 5,541
Other:
Emails sent: 925
Anyway, from a numbers perspective, I think that pretty much covers everything worth passing on. If there’s anything else anyone would like to know, leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer it.
For comparison, see:
2007 Year-End Zeitgeist and 2007 Year End Zeitgeist, Part 2
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