Blog Statistics 2009
Others have done it, so why shouldn’t I do it, too? Well, usually that’s not my line of thought, but when today I read David Linsin's blog post about his stats I thought I might follow along.
Overall stats
The overall visits to my blog – and countless others with no doubt – display the workday/weekend jagged line one would expect. The summer months seem to be a little lower on average, but that’s ok, people deserve their vacations. Blue line is 2009, green line is 2008 for comparison.
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Overall traffic increase in the 40% range with slightly more time per page – nice. The bounce rate is constantly high, but since almost all posts are about some particular narrow-focused topic, this is expected. Usually when looking for the solution to a problem bugging me, I do not have the time to browse around for other, unrelated stuff on the sites I come to, either.
Top Contents
The top 8 content pages in 2009 were:
- MySQL: Add primary key to table with duplicates (5666 page views)
- Migrate VM from VirtualBox to VMware Fusion (4185 page views)
- XP SP3: STOP 0x0000007E (0xC000001D) (solved) (4126 page views)
- SAXParseException: -1:-1: Premature End Of File - Misleading error (3534 page views)
- How to charge the iPod Touch's battery on Linux (3245 page views)
- ERROR 1033 (HY000) on InnoDB configuration error (2431 page views)
- Conditional INSERT with MySQL (2385 page views)
- Something to know about Toshiba external USB HDD (2311 page views)
I would never have guessed that these Toshiba drives are still around bugging people with their strange password protection voodoo. But there is a constant stream of comments on this post to this day.
The post about migrating VMs from VirtualBox to VMware had a spike in traffic right around the time VMware Fusion 3 was released – pretty sure that’s when a lot of people gave it another shot. The XP SP3 blue screen post was very strong around the time I posted it and has been gradually decreasing in popularity – probably a sign that SP3 is getting more and more prevalent.
The following PNG gives some more details and a 2008 comparison – which of course has to be taken with a grain of salt for posts written later in 2008 or at the beginning of 2009.
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Platforms
As for browsers and operating systems, Windows and Linux lost compared to 2008 while Macintosh gained 10%. Firefox lost about 3%, IE about 7%. Both Safari and Chrome took their shares:
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Traffic Sources
Finally some data on traffic sources. Apparently the amount of traffic from other sites and direct traffic is slowly increasing, which I find flattering, especially because in 2009 I had little time for blogging and did not provide too much new contents.
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