May 2007 stats report
By William M. Hartnett on Jun 1, 2007 in meta, site stats
Noticeable increases in page views (up 66.7 percent) and visit depth (up 124 percent) following my mid-month switch from Blogger to WordPress, despite a roughly two-week period during which I hardly posted. Then again, when you’re at the bottom, there’s nowhere to go but up.
TOP 10 POSTS
- Links you probably won’t find on Romenesko (May 30)
- A potty-mouthed rant from a newspaper optimist (May 17)
- I feel for the movie critics, but … (May 14)
- Meanwhile, in journalism land (May 23)
- Yet another Google Analytics complaint (May 23)
- Finally, Google speaks on Analytics delays (May 29)
- Mainstream and not getting it (May 17)
- Read the post, do something about it (May 24)
- Boobies by the bay (May 17)
- Making better use of print stories online (May 15)
SUMMARY
- 723 visits, 23 per day
- 4,034 page views, 130 per day
- 5.6 page views per visit
BROWSERS
- 473 visits from Firefox users, 65.4 percent
- 87.3 percent Firefox 2 and above
- 12.7 percent Firefox 1.5 and below
- 196 visits from IE users, 27.1 percent
- 52 percent IE 6
- 47.5 percent IE 7
- 0.5 percent IE 5.5
- 43 visits from Safari users, 6 percent
- 6 visits from Opera users, 0.83 percent
- 2 visits from Netscape users, 0.28 percent
- 2 visits from Mozilla users, 0.28 percent
- 1 visit from a Camino user, 0.14 percent
OPERATING SYSTEMS
- 574 visits from Windows users, 79.4 percent
- 88.9 percent XP
- 6.1 percent 2000
- 3.7 percent Server 2003
- 1.2 percent Vista
- 0.17 percent 98
- 137 visits from Mac users, 19 percent
- 65 percent PowerPC
- 35 percent Intel
- 10 visits from Linux users, 1.4 percent
- 1 visit from a FreeBSD user, 0.14 percent
- 1 visit from a user of a mystery platform, 0.14 percent
TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS
- 284 at 1280 x 1024, 39.3 percent
- 216 at 1024 x 768, 29.9 percent
- 51 at 1440 x 900, 7.1 percent
- 40 at 1280 x 800, 5.5 percent
- 30 at 1280 x 854, 4.2 percent
(subjective) TOP 5 SEARCH STRINGS
- drekkenoth
- how to do things
- personal weird stories blog
- world’s shortest twin brothers
- for his vivid images of central americans who, desperate to enter america illegally, risk their lives leaping on mexican freight trains rumbling northward


















