My weblog zeitgeist
1 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Thursday, November 18 at Thursday, November 18, 2004.
Thanks to the awesome (and free) Statcounter service, I have been able to monitor the statistics on who is reading my blog, where, and how often. Its a really cool service, and I reccomend it to anyone out there who is blogging.
You can see the little green hitcounter button at the bottom of my toolbar on the right. I have had about 2600 hits to my site since installing the button two months ago - which is a number I am absolutely amazed by. I have been averaging about 40 hits per day, with about 25 on slower days (Sunday and Monday) and highs of 80-100 on good days (typically Wednesdays and Saturdays). What is even cooler is looking at the breakdown of where my blog is being read from:
All over the place! So, to all my homies in Australia, the USA, Egypt, Canada, the UK, South Africa, Germany, Ireland, Turkey, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, Nigeria, Hong Kong, France, Portugal and South Korea, I say a big G'Day to you. And these are just the countries I have had hits from in the last 2 days!
I get quite a few one off hits from Saudi Arabia, Israel, Lebanon and the UAE as well. Unfortunately, most do not come for my insightful outsiders view of life in the Middle East, but rather from google after searching for my slightly unconventional spelling of the word "shawerma" (it is typically spelt "shwarma" in latin letters, so I have discovered. "Shisha" is also more commonly spelt "Sheesha" as well). So to my Middle Eastern brothers stumbling across this site I say to you, come for the misspelt arabic food, but stay and enjoy the fun! Readers in over 25 countries can't be wrong!
My readers seem to be fairly tech savvy as well, with over 30% of my wonderful readers using the vastly superior (but still not widely used) Firefox web browser. Go Firefox. If you aren't using Firefox to surf the web, go download it right now - in the words of my good friend Slobs - "because it sucks less than Internet Explorer".
So, a global community of tech savvy early adopters, spread across the worlds leading developed and emerging markets. Maybe I should consider selling advertising?
You can see the little green hitcounter button at the bottom of my toolbar on the right. I have had about 2600 hits to my site since installing the button two months ago - which is a number I am absolutely amazed by. I have been averaging about 40 hits per day, with about 25 on slower days (Sunday and Monday) and highs of 80-100 on good days (typically Wednesdays and Saturdays). What is even cooler is looking at the breakdown of where my blog is being read from:
All over the place! So, to all my homies in Australia, the USA, Egypt, Canada, the UK, South Africa, Germany, Ireland, Turkey, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, Nigeria, Hong Kong, France, Portugal and South Korea, I say a big G'Day to you. And these are just the countries I have had hits from in the last 2 days!
I get quite a few one off hits from Saudi Arabia, Israel, Lebanon and the UAE as well. Unfortunately, most do not come for my insightful outsiders view of life in the Middle East, but rather from google after searching for my slightly unconventional spelling of the word "shawerma" (it is typically spelt "shwarma" in latin letters, so I have discovered. "Shisha" is also more commonly spelt "Sheesha" as well). So to my Middle Eastern brothers stumbling across this site I say to you, come for the misspelt arabic food, but stay and enjoy the fun! Readers in over 25 countries can't be wrong!
My readers seem to be fairly tech savvy as well, with over 30% of my wonderful readers using the vastly superior (but still not widely used) Firefox web browser. Go Firefox. If you aren't using Firefox to surf the web, go download it right now - in the words of my good friend Slobs - "because it sucks less than Internet Explorer".
So, a global community of tech savvy early adopters, spread across the worlds leading developed and emerging markets. Maybe I should consider selling advertising?
Hey Tom!!
Hope everything is fine with you! Just to say that I am part of the portuguese share that reads your blog! :)
Always nice to read your comments and points of view!
Take care and hope u visit Portugal some day!
PS- Now I am thinking.. "What if he doesnt have a clue/remember who I am?!" Well, I guess that that is something I will have to live with...