Saturday, November 6, 2010

A Snapshot Of Traffic To My Site

Google blogger has a neat aspect, that not only provides feedback on the number of site visits, but shows the operating system, type of browser, and originating countries for those visits. I find the world map to be a nifty feature. Without further ado, here are some figures on site traffic to my blog.

Last month (October 7, 2010 to November 5, 2010), there were 808 visits to my blog (Not a lot I know, but I wasn't sure whether anyone was even reading my blog). The visits came from a total of 10 countries: USA, Canada, France, Netherlands, Poland, Israel, India, Pakistan, China and South Korea. Not surprisingly, the majority of hits came from the U.S.(97.5%). Encompassing 98% of all traffic, Microsoft Windows was the overwhelming operating system (OS) used to access my blog. Apple's Macintosh OS was in second place involving less than 1% of traffic. There was one instance of UNIX accessing my blog (probably a crawler). Five types of browsers were used to access my blog: Firefox (61%), Internet Explorer (36%), Safari (1%), Chrome (1%) and Opera (1%).

For the week (October 29, 2010 to November 5, 2010), there were 119 visits from six countries: USA, France, Poland, Russia, China and South Korea. Again, the majority of hits came from the U.S. (90%). With the exception of one user, everyone used MS Windows OS to access my blog. The lone user was using Apple's Macintosh OS. Four types of browsers were used to access my blog: Firefox (75%), Internet Explorer (22%), Opera (1%) and Safari (1%).

Here are the most accessed posts for the week (October 29, 2010 to November 5, 2010). Not surprisingly, Kick Starting Your Analytics Strategy was the most popular post with 17 hits. That's probably one of my better posts, and the topic that prompted me to start writing this blog.

I will finish with this useless trivia - the total surface area for the countries mentioned in this post is approximately 20 million square miles, which comprises 35 percent of the earth's land mass.