A Statistical Year in Blogging

20 Dec

Its that time of year when we all look back at the year from the perspective of your own blogs/ideas/thoughts etc. I’ll have some more to say about that in a bit but firstly some incredibly dull fascinating visitor statistics for this site this year (excludes Bots,spiders and feed-readers):

This site has received *112,412 unique visitors* this year.
It has received *272,008 total visits* this year.
It has served up *2,609,187 pages* this year.
It has received *5,292,786 hits* this year.
This sites most popular day is a Thursday.
More *Americans* visit this site than any other nation.
This site has been visited by people from *152 countries*.
This site has *approximately 220 subscribers via Feed Readers* (most from Bloglines but an increasing amount from Rojo).
The most popular browser is *IE 6.0* with Firefox 1.0.? coming a very close second.
The site has been indexed by *45 Search Engines and Directories*.
The site’s most popular referrer is *http://cssvault.com* with nearly 20,000 unique referrers this year.
The site’s been found by searchers utilising *15,111 unique keyphrases*.
The most popular phrase to find me is ‘autism blog’ which brought 429 people to the site.
*52 people* have added this site to del.icio.us
I currently rank: 13,387 (285 links from 110 sites) on Technorati.
The site has a PR that fluctuates between 6 and 8 on Google.

Thats all very interesting and confirms my theory that my amount of readers vastly outnumbers my active commenters. As an aside, I’m very curious as to who all these lurkers are – if you fancy dropping a ‘hi’ to the comments of this post that’d be great – you can do it anonymously if you so desire :o)

This year saw me start blogging more about autism as a social/medical issue and less about it as it relates to my daughter. This is something of a shame as I know many people enjoyed reading posts about her. There are a few reasons why I stopped which I’ve discussed in other places.

Also this year saw the launch of Project: New which was an attempt to provide a starting point for new web designers and web designers new to web standards to get a good start in the field. It didn’t end up quite how I expected but I was very pleased with both the response it received and the end product itself. I plan on starting Project: New Part II at some point next Spring. Part II will concentrate on client and serverside scripting.

More recently, I came to the conclusion that whilst the blog was good for provoking discussion that that discussion frequently become bogged down in side issues (I’m as bad as everyone else in that respect) so I started up a forum to deal with autism from a scientific point of view to create a calmer and more rational place – the blog is more heat than light. I’m hoping the reverse will be true for the forum.

As for next year, I have plans. As I say, Project: New Part II is crying out to be written and I’m planning a ‘from the ground up’ revamp of the blog and forum. I want to present a more accessible environment and besides, I’m getting bored with this design ;o)

15 Responses to “A Statistical Year in Blogging”

  1. Pierce December 20, 2005 at 11:41 #

    I’m still reading. I just don’t feel qualified to comment on the autism-related posts.

    If you need any more experts for Project:New II I’m so there. Or just proof-readers. Or someone to make the tea. Whatever.

  2. Khalid Hanif December 20, 2005 at 14:46 #

    Howdy 🙂

    Once a lurker, always a lurker 😉

  3. Matt December 20, 2005 at 20:14 #

    I still read 🙂

  4. Tom December 20, 2005 at 23:13 #

    Hello from Bloglines!

  5. SarahG December 21, 2005 at 01:58 #

    I read via my feedreader. Mainly here to read your right brain but the left side is of interest too :o)

    Nice Stats. Merry Christmas.

  6. Alyric December 21, 2005 at 06:58 #

    Hi Kev from Downunder

    Merry Xmas to you and yours

  7. Toxie December 21, 2005 at 14:21 #

    I check to see who won the sweep ;¬)

  8. Rebecca December 21, 2005 at 14:21 #

    Still here 🙂 and lurking happily

  9. bonni December 21, 2005 at 15:10 #

    I’m not a lurker, but I thought I’d fess up to being one of your Firefox visitors. 😉

  10. M December 21, 2005 at 17:42 #

    *waves* Non-lurker, but Firefox user.

  11. Nana December 21, 2005 at 17:53 #

    I’m an avid reader of autism blogs and groups.

    I think I found you from a comment on Orac’s blog and I visit your blog often.

    Thanks.

  12. Phil December 23, 2005 at 14:47 #

    I drop in occasionally because you touch on two topics that interest me; girls with ASD (my daughter is 15) and pseudo-science used to mislead parents with bogus cures. Not enough IT skills to make sense of any of the other stuff.

    Why is it that IT guys like to stir up quacks and fraudsters? http://www.ratbags.com Maybe it’s just having the skills to put it online, whatever, should be more of it.
    Phil Brisbane Aust

  13. Tera December 23, 2005 at 19:28 #

    Lurker here 😉

    I love reading your blog, Kev, but never comment. Maybe that’s a good New Year’s resolution.

    And I was a Firefox user, until my OS had to be reinstalled.

  14. John December 31, 2005 at 04:34 #

    Unique visitor number 112,413 here
    I am the 430th person to find your site by typing ‘autism blog’ into google
    I will also be the 421st subscriber vis RSS
    …ok – now I’m sounding like my 5 year old 🙂
    Great blog – I am a parent and in the web business too. I like the change of focus.

  15. Kev December 31, 2005 at 12:14 #

    Well, a fascinating mix of quiet old mates, current posters and people new to me :o)

    Glad I give you all something to squint at in your breakfast time/lunch break/evening surfing :o)

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