Richy's Random Ramblings

Ok, no lies, but last months blogging stats.

I currently have 763 posts (14 during September) and 2,410 comments (only 8 of those during September) with 436,819 spam comments caught by Akismet (a further 70,298 were caught by Spam Karma before that) since my last install.

Since I seem to have conflicting information from my stats systems, I’ll put the data in a table:

Item/Source		Google Analytics	AwStats	Webalizer
Unique Visitors		3,287	6,785	10,799 -“Total Unique Sites”
Visits		3,424	46,744	73,298
Page Views		4,426	81,673	125,511
Average pageviews		1.29	6.88	n/a
Bandwidth usage		n/a	2.45Gb	2.67Gb

And now for the top 5 visitor locations – it’s amazing that the 3 different stats programs gave different top 5 results: 9 different countries were in the top five:

Item/Source		Google Analytics	AwStats	Webalizer
Visitors	UK	2. 32.56% visits	4. 2121 pages	3. 0.68% hits
	US	1. 43.08% visits	1. 47,195 pages	2. 3.34% hits
	Canada	3. 3.68% visits	5. 1415 pages	11. 0.02% hits
	Australia	4. 2.75% visits	6. 1004 pages	9. 0.08% hits
	Germany	5. 1.55% visits	9. 673 pages	16. 0.01% hits
	India	6. 1.08% visits	21.93 pages
	Sweden	10. 0.58% visits	3. 11,201 pages	4. 0.51% hits
	Unknown	38. 0.15% visits	2. 12,654 pages	1. 94.48% hits
	Mexico	37. 0.18% visits	37.11 pages	5. 0.23% hits

But what browsers do my visitors use? I’m a bit disappointed not to see ArcWeb or Fresco in this list:

Item/Source		Google Analytics	AwStats	Webalizer
Internet Explorer		69.86% – 2,392 visits	33% – 43,760 hits
	9.0	0.04% – 1 visit	0% – 15 hits
	7.0	37.54% – 898 visits	13.5% – 17,871 hits
	6.0	61.87% – 1,480 visits	19% – 25,276 hits
	5.5	0.29% – 7 visits	0.1% – 164 hits
Firefox		24.53% – 840 visits	20.2% – 26,756 hits
	2.0.0.7	26.31% – 221 visits	2.4% – 3,248 hits
	2.0.0.6	58.10% – 488 visits	6.5% – 8,608 hits
	1.5.0.12	2.98% – 25 visits	0.3% – 451 hits
	2.0.0.4	2.14% – 18 visits	0.1% – 245 hits
Safari		2.69% – 92 visits	1.3% – 1,724 hits
Opera		1.34% – 46 visits	0.6% – 845
Mozilla		0.96% – 33 visits	1.1% – 1,503 hits
Netscape		0.23% – 8 visits	0.2% – 363 hits
Camino		0.15% – 5 visits	0% – 89 hits
Konqueror		0.12% – 4 visits	0% – 66 hits
Playstation 3		0.03% – 1 visit	n/a
Sony Ericsson		0.03% – 1 visit	13 hits

I think that’s enough stats for now.

You may notice the new “Listen” option on the blog entries – this is because I’ve just signed up with Talkr which converts (via a computer) my blog entries to audio so you can now listen to my blog on your iPod or similar if you wanted to.

Hope it comes in handy!

Meh – sorry my blogging rate has decreased quite dramatically the last two weeks: a combination of workload, tiredness and problems with the Mozilla Firefox browser have prevented me from blogging when I wanted to.

What problem with Firefox? Well, I rebooted and then Firefox wouldn’t stay open for more than 2 pages at a time without crashing (sometimes it wouldn’t even load without crashing). Tried loading Firefox in safe mode (with extensions disabled) and same problem. So how did I fix it? Basically, I somehow managed to track it down to an update with Real Player pushed out via Google Updater which had a dodgy Firefox/RealPlayer integration which caused Firefox to die. Uninstall Real Player and it worked perfectly.

Only problem I have had to date with Google Updater though.