Statistics trivia about my site - Part 1
As you well may know, I am using a service by Google called Google Analytics to collect non-identifiable
information about my website for the sake of quality of content and statistics. Some of the statistics I collected
are rather amusing. Some of them are just plain interesting. I decided to share bits of the data with you.
Once again, a reassurance. No information whatsoever is personally identifiable. I do not know (or wish to know)
who contributed to the entries. At best, I can know which search engine was used to make a particular entry or the
domain name from which a person accessed my site. No IPs. No individual pages.
Example: search for "dedoimedo" from about three months ago.
Two persons made a search for Dedoimedo using the Google search engine. Those persons entered my site thereupon. I
have no idea in what part of the world they made the inquiry. I have no idea what operating system they used or
what browser they used. I have no idea at what time of day this search was made. I'm not even sure that it wasn't
the same person who made the same search twice.
My abilities are in general statistics - across entire populations of visitors. I cannot cross-reference between
different parameters. Nevertheless, if you feel uncomfortable about this, you can turn off the javascript for my
site and your visits will not be recorded. You will still be able to use everything on this site.
Now, let's have some fun.
Browsers
It's a tie between Internet Explorer and Firefox. I'm extremely glad this is the case, since Firefox holds
only about 10% of the market, meaning that Firefox users are about 4 times more likely, on average, to visit
here.
Platforms
Here, there's an interesting trend.
Three months ago, Windows held sway with about 92% prevalence.
These days, Windows is down to 85%. Does this mean more people are using Linux? Or perhaps that even the Linux
geeks are starting to like my humble site? Most importantly, did I have a flake of contribution to the world of
Open Source?
Screen resolution
An innocent yet important piece of trivia.
As expected, the majority of people have normal eyes and use either 1024x768 or 1280x1024 resolution. There was
also a single user with 1920x120 resolution. I wonder how huge the monitor must be to comfortably support that
setting.
Where in the world?
I'm pleased to say that my site attracts an international crowd. The majority of my users for this week were
from the English-speaking parts of the world, the United States and the Commonwealth. But I'm also privileged to
have visitors from Netherlands, Italy, Morocco, Israel, China, Poland, and many other cool countries. Hey, I even
had two visits from Tanzania! And even from a non-existent country, Yugoslavia.
The list goes on beyond entry 26 ...
And these are the default languages of my visitors:
Searches & top content
This is the most interesting part - the searches that people made, which brought them to my site and the
articles they most enjoyed.
About three months ago, my article Big Breasts (a.k.a. Mommy didn't love me) seemed
to attract quite a crowd. Hopefully the readers have found what they wanted.
These days, people seem mainly focused on the Computer software &
security, which probably means that the more relevant content comes first in the searches, indicating an
increase in popularity of my more technical articles.
And these are the topics that you most read:
Again, I'm pleased that people show interest in the computer-related articles. It's a nice feeling that I could
help someone have a better moment in their life thousands of kilometers away.
Well, this article has no heroic punchline. If you do like this kind of fun, I'll be glad to compile more reports.
If you have any ideas for better analyses, I would be glad to hear. I hope you enjoyed a bit of trivia behind the
scenes of Dedoimedo.
Cheers.
