Saturday, March 12, 2011

TecHumanity - The Global Force!

Said totally tongue in cheek, of course.  I'm pretty aware that a lot of hits that my posts get are probably nothing more than spiders and bots trolling and indexing the web for content.  Still, it's interesting to view the statistics sometimes.

No big surprise to me, but Windows is the predominant operating system with 89% of the hits being from a Windows based computer.

Similarly, the typical browser is either Internet Explorer (65%) or Firefox (18%) accounting for 83% of the traffic.

The posts with the most hits are as follows:

1. Yahoo! And OtherInbox...to Borrow from Monty Python "NOSPAM...NOSPAM...NOSPAM..."
112 hits. No surprise here.  This one was noticed and tweeted about from a company in the US.  All of the hits on this article came within a 24h period - the vast majority within an hour or so of it being tweeted about.

2. Social Networking
60 hits.  This is the one that I can't figure out.  This one page consistently gets a couple of hits a week, for no apparent reason.  It's not like it's recent, so I can't figure out why it's active.  It's not like there are click-throughs to it, that - I would be able to tell, but somehow this page is just navigated to.  It might very well be that the title of it "Social Networking" might be the key for a spider or bot to index it, I really don't know.


3. Ho-Ho-Wholly Straddling the Hi Tech World

43 hits.  I must say, this is probably my all time favourite article.  It was a lot of fun to write and was totally different from anything else that I had written.  I suppose that the part of me that loves to write fiction enjoyed creating a Santa Claus based article.  On a side-note, this article was also tweeted about, but definitely didn't result in the same traffic as my NOSPAM one.


4. Multiple Locks -- One Key
24 hits.  This is my most recent article and I think one of the more important ones that I've written about.  I've received a lot of positive feedback that it is given people cause to stop and think about how they use their passwords, and this is precisely why I wrote this article.

5. Blessing of The High Tech Tools
22 hits.  This one was an interesting article.  Well - to be honest, it was more of a short blog than an article.  I think that this one received a few hits as it was noticed and posted on some other blogs.

and finally, here's an extra tidbit about the importance of never trusting an appearance of a URL:
The Old Bait and Switch

Anyways, those are the top five.  Clearly, I'm never going to make a lot of money from all this traffic, but all is good.  So if you got rick-rolled - drop a comment and let me know!

Here's the current breakdown of hits by country:
United States
     692
Canada
            394
Ukraine          
  48
Russia
             37
United Kingdom  
   25
Brazil
             17
Poland
             17
Germany
            14
Malta
              12
Romania            11


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