Monday, February 3, 2014

Happy Anniversary, AKA, Who Reads This Thing Anyway?

One year ago today, Dude With Thoughts went live. Over the past year together, we've had many experiences--among them, we've endured breakups, visited places real and fictional, reunited with old friends, and even started training  for a whole new career. Happy first anniversary, and thank you for joining me!

For this first anniversary post, as a gift to you, dear reader, I want to tell you about......you! Thanks to my Blogger statistics page, I have a lot of interesting information on my readers. (Don't worry, it's very general, aggregate information--nothing personal to anyone.)

There are two kinds of stats, which I'll call "People Stats" and "Post Stats". For most of these, I can only see the top ten, so there may be others.

People Stats

People Stats are statistics about the blog's audience. These include things like what browsers and operating systems you use. It also tells me what are the most popular referring URLs and referring sites.

But the most interesting to me is the "Pageview (PV) by Country" stat. Here, "country" refers to the country which hosts the website that the viewer uses to enter the blog. Turns out, there's an international audience--in fact, I've had views from 6 out of the 7 continents. (Come on, Antarctica, you know you want to!)

PV By Country

United States
1014
Russia
70
Germany
54
Canada
36
Malaysia
36
United Kingdom
27
Serbia
21
Netherlands
9
Brazil
6
  Spain
 
6
 
 

PV By Browser
 
Internet Explorer

791 (54%)
Firefox

253 (17%)
Chrome

177 (12%)
Safari

59 (4%)
BingPreview

37 (2%)
Mobile Safari

36 (2%)
chromeframe

33 (2%)
Silk

23 (1%)
Opera

20 (1%)
OS;FBSV

15 (1%)
 


PV By Operating System

Windows

1171 (80%)
Macintosh

117 (8%)
Linux

72 (4%)
Android

45 (3%)
iPhone

33 (2%)
Other Unix

7 (<1%)
iPad

7 (<1%)
Windows NT 6.1

3 (<1%)
BeOS

2 (<1%)
iPod

1 (<1%)
 
 


Referring URL

69
45
41
18
18
17
14
14
13
13


Referring Sites

69
69
59
48
37
34
18
17
16
14

Popular Search Keywords

dudewiththoughts.blogspot.com

12
baa 5k

2
dudewiththoughts.com

2
"halifax public gardens" (site:wordpress.com | site:blogspot.com | site:typepad.com)

1
25 year high school reunion attitude

1
americas ice cream and dairy museum

1
baa 5k 2013 blog

1
carnival cruise boston to st.john

1
carnival cruise to nova scotia advice

1
dude thoughts

1
 


Post Stats


Post Stats are statistics about the postings themselves. These include the number of pageviews each post has, the number of comments, etc.

There are a total of 33 comments.

The most read month was December 2013 (257 PVs), the least read was February 2013 (75 PVs). The average per month is approximately 121 PV's.

The most read post was on the WWII Museum (81 PVs), the least read was my Star Trek inspired poem (7 PV's). The average number of PV's is 58.36.


Top 10 Most Popular Posts (PV)

81
64
46
46
43
40
33
32
27
25
 

 
All in all, it's been a great first year. Thanks again for joining me, and looking forward to year 2! 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 










3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just love stats!

Bill Georato said...

Yeah, they are pretty cool!

Bill Georato said...

From Email:

Very good! Wish I had so many responsed. I need to talk to you about this when next we meet.



Ted



Cool Bill! Thank you for sending that.

-Jennifer


Hi Bill,



Finally had a chance to sit back and read through this - so interesting! Thanks for sharing it with me




Have a great week-end :0)




Best regards,




Angela



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Thanks all!

(By the way, Ted's blog is at http://simpsci.blogspot.com/ or you can hit Simply Science on the blog roll.