I think I’m settling into my blogging stride. After the initial couple of months of posting frenzy I’m realising that keeping that pace up will be a killer and will probably give me ‘blog burnout’ a lot quicker than it should.
Besides, a post every 2 to 4 days isn’t bad really. Anyhoo, on with the show:
Statistical crazyness
I’ve been messing around with my stats plugin [BAStats] and found some odd things.
First on the agenda: Referring Search Terms.
I was surprised to see some of the search terms that had resulted in a hit to my site. Unsurprisingly, Splee is one of the most common search terms, although the fact that people are searching for my psudonym is odd in and of itself. I’m guessing that Splee is actually a name in some language/country or another, or it is an acronym of some software somewhere.
Running a very close second is the search term “bloodninja”. That is all due to one minipost with a link to the online-chat based escapades of the infamous bloodninja. Google rates me a little too highly I think.
Added into the melange are searches for ‘Dooce’ and ‘Escape from blogland’. Quite how I manage to turn up on those searches to the point where someone clicks through to my site instead of the original owner’s site is beyond me, but it happened.
Referring sites.
The top 10 is quite impressive. Almost all are links from other blogs (which is probably as it should be). The biggest surprise in that top 10 though was Wedge, as he was waxing lyrical about his low visitor count. Anyway, the list:
- Colronray - 126 referrals
- wordpress.org/development/2005/02/strayhorn/ - 35 referrals
- Wivvers - 33 referrals
- Wedge - 30 referrals
- Em - 29 referrals
- blo.gs - 19 referrals
- Razorhead - 13 referrals
- Greavsie - 7 referrals
- Lou Lou and Scarlet - 5 referrals
- Southern Bird - 3 referrals
Colin, my conclusion from these results is that everyone wants to get off your page so badly that they’ll click any old rubbish. :P
Other stuff
Other stuff of interest to me:
- Far too many people use IE6 unpatched
- Some people are still using IE5/IE5.5
- One poor individual is still using IE3 on Windows 95 (please, seek help quickly)
- Firefox is doing reasonably well in the browser standings
- Someone managed to browse my site using their XBox!?
- The GoogleBot hammers the shit out of my site
Right, I’m off to do some work and find out how to browse the ‘net using an XBox.
wedge | 29-Mar-05 at 12:13 pm | Permalink
those 30 referals aren’t counting me are they? Because I actually go to your website 30 times a DAY. But you and I have come a longway since we started(about the same time too.
You probably have a bit more UK traffic becaus eyou silly brits have ‘unity’ and ’support’. The only person in america who suports mine is a chick from New Jersey! lol.
Oh and yes, google bot is molesting my site too.
Blue Witch | 29-Mar-05 at 12:44 pm | Permalink
Is the IE3 Win95 someone on a Blackberry or mobile phone or similar though? There are a couple of people who visit me via this route who always show as that.
Splee | 29-Mar-05 at 1:43 pm | Permalink
Wedge: If you click on your blogs link to get to my site from yours then yeah, you could be generating those clicks. :)
BW: Hmm… could be, although this stat thing is pretty accurate and puts the exact browser id there rather than a generalisation. I’ll try it from my phone and see what that gives me.
ColRonRay | 29-Mar-05 at 3:12 pm | Permalink
:-) I also click my link to get to your site a few times a day Splee.
I’m not surprised to see Witho and Em in there as high referrers. Both of those are what I would described as ‘credible referrer sites’.
I don’t pay massive amounts of attention to referrer terms etc, they can be amusing (I got a referreal from ‘webcam wankers’ last week. How the hell do they know about that? :-) )but I don’t think they tell you too much.
IP addys are more revealing….
wedge | 29-Mar-05 at 7:45 pm | Permalink
yes! the iP reveals all
Blue Witch | 30-Mar-05 at 12:02 pm | Permalink
Only if it’s a static one though…