As I write this post, the blog is 332 people away from having received 100,000 unique visitors since it began (back in July 2006). In case the phrase ‘unique visitor’ is new to you, this is basically one person visiting the site. If they return within 24 hours, the repeat visit does not count towards unique visitor statistics (unlike a simple hit counter). Also, any visits from bots or spiders (from the search engines mostly) are not counted at all by both statistic packages I currently use (AWStats and FireStats).
So, if someone visits my site once a day all through October, my stats would show an extra 31 unique visitors. If they visited 31 times in one day, only ONE unique visitor is recorded. Anyway, thanks to those who know me and pop in occasionally to see what is new in our lives over here, thanks to those of you who come here from the search engines (I use a plugin that pings me each time I rank well for a google search) and especially those of you who come back again.
I’ve recently cut down on the adverts displayed on this site, especially those that were only shown for American visitors – the ads weren’t at all content-orientated, sometimes looked tacky, and to be completely honest were not generating anything like the income I had hoped for. You’ll also never find any sort of pop-up, pop-under, or full page sponsorship advert before you can access the site; each to their own, but I hate them when I’m randomly browsing around, so don’t want to inflict them on my visitors.
Oct 30 2008
October 30th, 2008 6:48 pm
Way to go on (almost) 100k visitors. Brilliant blog with tons of great, interesting and enjoyable info. Pleasure to visit, browse and read.
October 30th, 2008 7:16 pm
Likewise re. your site, already in my drop list 🙂
October 31st, 2008 1:51 am
Well, I stumbled it and hope your 100,000th is a good one.
October 31st, 2008 1:54 am
just a test to see if your widget recognizes the Chrome browser, from Google.
October 31st, 2008 2:30 am
Congratulations on your success. I’ll see you at the top!
October 31st, 2008 3:20 am
Congrats on getting 100k visitors (soon) 😀
October 31st, 2008 3:49 am
@Richard, thanks for the stumble, and yep, it appears that Chrome is recognised. Actually I need to find out where the image size is defined for country/OS/browser icons, I’ve been avoiding sorting out the ugly enlargement issues for a while. (FireStats v1.6.0-beta2 is the plugin used, in case you’re interested).
@Ray & Michael, thanks a lot for your comments.
@Michael, love the facebooker caught out post – stumbled and passing on to an Aussie friend we’re meeting tomorrow 🙂
59 unique visitors to go until I reach my entirely arbitrary target 🙂 🙂
October 31st, 2008 4:34 am
Hey, thanks Chris 🙂 Didn’t know you are in Aussie too
October 31st, 2008 5:18 am
I’m not (the clue to my location is in the flag under my name in this comments section 😉 , though I’m actually a Brit). The friend happens to live in Astana as well, comes from where my friend from Cheltenham (UK) now lives (Sydney), and for a short while lived in Britain where my Dad now resides! Truly a small world…
35 more to go 🙂