Hello, Boys!

About a month ago I set up Site Meter on this blog. (The following graph is for the semiologists, not the statisticians, so enjoy the pretty colours then look further down for genuine factoids about all y'all.)



48% of my traffic this week came from cox.net. This is most of the civilian population of Virginia, including me. My blog is my homepage because it's got all my favourite links on it but that's gonna skew some of my stats. I don't see my old colleagues showing up by domain name but 26% used Macs and surely no-one would do that unless they were getting paid for it?

Visitors to Ford Prefect this week were 94% English-speaking. Spanish and Hebrew ranked with 1% each, and 4% were German. (Hi, Ally!) Additionally, users with Dutch, Israeli, and Argentinian accounts dropped by. I guess many were just hitting Next Blog at the top of the page, cos I have referrals from people I don't know and sites that definitely aren't "tagging" me.

Google shows up in the list of referring pages too, and a simple mouse click in each case re-creates the original search. Yep, you guessed correctly: my porn post on 2005-06-30 has made me the third-listed site if you search for "Keely Coles". She uses a stage name and I had a helluva time tracking down her real name for the article. Since publishing it, I've become a source... a nodal point in the sharing of this precious knowledge. And that makes me a big hit with Googling perverts. Hello, boys!