Going over the year's stats on the website, it is amazing how much traffic I get now. I mean, not like major sites or anything, but it isn't a shabby total. For example, in January '04 the site got 40.12 MB of traffic; which, for a personal site, is not bad. In December, we peaked out at 663.65 MB of pages pulled.
Annual stats are the following:
Number of visits: 6602 (1.85 visits/visitor)
Pages: 19573 (2.96 pages/visit)
Hits: 163082 (24.7 hits/visit)
Bandwidth: 3.89 GB (618.32 KB/visit)
Now, granted, that includes a lot of repeat visitors and a lot of missed searches (a picture of our cake from the wedding draws a strange amount of traffic, for example). But about 5% of visitors have added us to their favorites/bookmarks, so that's not shabby in the great scheme of things, and 95% use either a direct link or bookmark to get to the site, also a sign you actually intend to visit.
Without boring you too much more, where the visits are coming from is also interesting to me. Granted, most traffic is US or at least uses .com, .net. Earlier on in the year the stats missed where about 2 GB of traffic originated but they got better, though they also changed the way they recorded stuff too. In any case, here, just for fun are some odd stats on location, excluding that mess:
Country | Domain | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| United States | ? | 4580 | 43641 | 1.25 GB |
| Commercial | .com | 1249 | 12717 | 576.93 MB |
| Network | .net | 555 | 4268 | 55.47 MB |
| US Educational | .edu | 194 | 1182 | 16.20 MB |
| European Union | .eu | 97 | 572 | 11.17 MB |
| Canada | .ca | 67 | 321 | 8.24 MB |
| Great Britain | .gb | 98 | 562 | 7.40 MB |
| Germany | .de | 56 | 177 | 5.83 MB |
| Australia | .au | 62 | 333 | 5.34 MB |
| Mexico | .mx | 87 | 312 | 5.30 MB |
| France | .fr | 19 | 108 | 5.14 MB |
| USA Military | .mil | 55 | 225 | 5.13 MB |
| Sweden | .se | 56 | 301 | 3.35 MB |
| Old style Arpanet | .arpa | 29 | 563 | 2.55 MB |
Followed closely by Singapore, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Japan, Italy, Saudi Arabia and so on. Really weird, especially since the worldwide traffic didn't start getting reflected until the last 5 or 6 months of the year.
Anyway, now that I've bored you with stats, some stories to pass on.
Linkin Park is coming to the aid of tsunami victims, as our government slowly gets the idea that this is a major world problem. Too bad the "compassionate conservatives" don't even recognize the problem exists; at least, according to their websites.
But hey, its not just our false Christians who are to blame. The insurgent morons trying to turn Iraq into Anarchyland haven't stopped killing civilians even as more than 100,000 of the tsunami dead are likely Muslims. And though Jerry Falwell hasn't (to my knowledge) said that those who died deserve it, this writer questions whether the hate-ridden Muslim brethren to Falwell, Dobson, Robertson, et al have anything to say about it.
Also, fake religion brings fake "faith-based" groups. Hey, at least these bozos are funding HeadStart. Rehnquist wondering how judicial criticism has gotten out of hand. Well, I can answer that. It involves a combination of sticking your nose into an election you shouldn't have touched at all and the ungrateful conservatives you put into power deciding you're next on their hate list feeding frenzy.
In Iraq dealings, torture is again illegal now that we gotten all the use out of it we could have. Violence is up, way up, which bodes ill for our troops there. And our combat medics are having to learn how to juggle combat and saving lives to deal with the realities on the ground.
And for fun, the list of banished words for 2005.
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