You may have guessed, but the lack of recent updates has been mostly because I’m worked ragged getting ready for my Thesis defense on Tuesday.
Assuming all goes well, I have big plans for this blog in December. So stay tuned.
Until then, this song is a bit like how I feel right now…
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
So I had to do a special blog post, and during my research typed ‘Oporto chicken’ into Google image search. Here is a screenshot of the results:
That’s only the second page of results! The funny thing is, I don’t believe either of us are actually eating Oporto in those photographs 🙂
So what was the post? What was so special I had to crow about it? I’m sure you’ve guessed by now…
I bought my Australia tickets yesterday 😉
Details to follow…
Thanks to my brother, I did indeed obtain some more blog statistics and one in particular is very surprising…
On average over 300 unique people read this blog monthly. A great many of these are repeat visitors!
I can probably count on two hands the number of people I actually know that read this blog. I wonder who the others are?
Until I reactivate account registration (unlikely), I may never know…
In the last year, my blog has been visited 17,448 times by 13,591 unique visitors. Each visit viewed, on average, 1.5 pages. So entries on my blog were viewed 26,356 times during the year.
Most visitors found the blog via google, and the most popular search term that led them to my blog was ’emily skins’ (which led them to this post). The second most popular term was ‘doctor who’ which (mostly) would have led them to my history of Dr Who games.
The top five most popular posts of the last year, indexed by views are:
1) Doctor Who Games (I have never played…) (4373) {Well researched and written; I’m proud of this!}
2) I’m Your Fan (3158) {A crappy post, now I look back on it}
3) Enough With The Monster Hunter Posts (933) {Someone probably linked to the tattoo}
4) MHFU Update (425) {Obviously the pretty girl cosplay…}
5) Ningen (417) {I’ll have to do more crypto posts…}
Somewhat alarmingly (since it was creative, rather than documentive), my Cthulhu beat-down was #6, and there was a massive spike around the posting of the Altamont Fair photos (which means Florence is now famous)!
The top five countries visitors came from: USA, UK, Australia, Canada and France
Aside from numerous Google referrals, I was intrigued to note that 65 visitors were referred to my blog from Wikipedia?!? Some quick detective work turned up this page.
I wonder if Google retains statistics beyond a year? And if they do, if my brother could provide them?
On to Youtube, my top three videos with views are:
1) UFO Catcher Unexpected Win (43,000+)
2) UFO Failing (25,000+)
3) Darling Harbor Dinosaur (9,000+)
These also happen to be the only ones that I can earn money on if I sign up to have ads included.
For the first video, the most popular demographic continues to be Japanese girls aged 13-17. There’s also been a spike in popularity in the last 4 days, so it must have been linked somewhere recently.
However the video of the Stinger at Altamont Fair is rocketing up the charts! 1200+ views in only a month is nothing to be sneezed at, and I don’t doubt it that rate continues it will be in the top 5 and maybe top 3 in the near future.
