3 years, 3 months, 3 days

On this randomly picked day to celebrate the 698th post to twinbearz.blogspot.com, I thought I would take a few minutes and look at some recent stats here (since I've been keeping track - somewhere in 2007). I'm doing this because even though many of you who read this blog never comment (don't be shy now), I know you are out there. Oh - I know! And I know more than you might think I would know. Know what I mean? But don't let that scare you. Now, Kentucky's breastfeeding rate (lowest in the nation) and circumsion rate (2nd highest in the nation) - that should scare you! But if you are anything like me, you love looking through numbers and data and uncovering the long-lost secrets of the blog.

• July 25, 2006 - First post to this blog
• 1,191 - Days that this blog has been operating
  
• 698 - Posts on this blog (that's more than 1 post every 2 days!)
  
• 15,226 - Page Loads (1,715 in 2007, 5,762 in 2008, 7,749 in 2009)
• 10,360 - Unique Visitors (948 in 2007, 4,087 in 2008, 5,325 in 2009). This includes:
  
  • 8,098 First Time Visitors (681 in 2007, 3,324 in 2008, 4,093 in 2009) and
    
  • 2,262 Returning Visitors (267 in 2007, 763 in 2008, 1,232 in 2009)
    
• Blog Access - It seems that most people get to the blog through "no referring link", but other common access points are through:
  • www.orsetti.com
  • Facebook
  • Blogger
  • Google reader (Hi Paul!) and
  • friend's blogs
• Keywords - There are some strange "keywords" that have lead people to the site, including:
  
  • "youtube our opinion matters" and
    
  • "cat puts head under faucet"
    
• Search Engines - As far as search engines used to locate the blog:
  • 66.67% Google
  • 16.67% Earthlink
  • 16.67% Google Blog Search
• Visit Lengths - People either seem to leave real quick or stay a while. Interesting. Let me show you a graph:
• Browsers:
  
  • 61% - Firefox
    
  • 18% - Safari
    
  • 13% - Internet Explorer
    
  • 4% - Chrome
    
  • 4% - Mozilla (which I guess my tracker differentiates from Firefox).
    
• Where in the World?: The overwhelming majority of our blog visitors are in (or their ISP is based in):
  
  • United States
    
    • Kentucky
      
    • Georgia
      
    • Michigan
      
    • Iowa
      
    • California
      
    • New Jersey
      
    • Ohio
      
    • Maryland
      
    • Virginia
      
    • New York
      
    • Mississippi
      
    • Pennsylvania
      
    • Rhode Island
      
    • Texas
      
    • Minnesota
      
    • Tennessee
      
  • India
    
  • Canada (Hi Paul!)
    
  • Brazil (Hi Julia!)
    
  • Malaysia
    
  • Ireland
    
  • I know we've had other countries visit us in the past, by my tracker is not showing them, such as Andorra and Italy, and my other tracker is showing Russia and Hungary.

I guess that's the most interesting stats from the blog right now. I've had to adjust my other tracker so it will be interesting to see how everything looks as more data is collected.

I love data!!!!