Great Googly Moogly!
... or How To Blow Your Website Statistics Right Out Of The Water.
I'm a sound guy. They pay me to put funny noises in movies. I like to play with computers. I watch Star Trek, and I love fantasy books and video games. It's a simple life, but I enjoy it.
So I decide to put up this website because maybe there's that one other person out there who finds anything I have to say moderately interesting. Yesterday was one month to the day that I started tracking my weblog's statistics with Site Meter. In one month I had 400 visits. Something like 14 visitors a day. And I know that at least one of them is my friend, Ariel, from college.
Last night I decided to do a little playing with the new iTunes that Apple released, and I posted an article about some things I discovered. It is now after 9pm here in the West Coast and I have had 834 visits to my site! In one day! Someone must have thought my look at Lossless compression noteworthy enough to post it to MacSurfer this morning and I have had a steady stream of traffic ever since.
It's truly amazing. Maybe this graph can show you the huge difference.
Prior to today, I had about 25% of my traffic from Macintosh computers. I know that a nice chunk of that was my own since I'm often checking and rechecking spelling, grammar, or finding an article reference in a new post. After today however... well, I'll just let this one speak for itself.
Well I'm flattered. Thank you all for visiting. Feel free to drop by again in the future. Though I will understand if I don't have another 800+ day for a long time.
Comments
Nicely done! Reminds me of the day I submitted a link to the Neverwinter Vault and found out after getting 100+ hits that they also posted it to the front page. Ah, those glory days. With a little luck, we pick up some regular readers. I've noticed a slight up-tick in the graph, but it's slim so, maybe 5% to 10% of the readers decided our site was worthy of a bookmark.
Yours is obviously more worthy, so I'm hoping you'll see an even larger number of regular visitors. You always have helpful information on your site. You got a good thing going here. Just wait until Wil Wheaton puts you on his blogoll. ;)
Love,
Hanna
p.s. You got a huge influx of visitors when we put you on our blogroll, right? Right!? :)
p.p.s. I wonder if that invert would work to show people that AAC isn't some horrible codec and that songs from the Apple Music Store aren't a ripoff. I hate when people say that because it just isn't true.
p.p.p.s. iTunes 4.5 broke my Apple Store account and now I can't download the free songs. Or buy any songs. If I found a bag of money under a tree, I could buy a G5, but no iTunes tunes for me ever again until I figure out what's wrong. I've heard the only solution is to throw away my iTunes folder and let iTunes copy my entire music library into the Music folder. Or something like that. Not in this lifetime. I can live without free April Lavigne songs, but still.
Posted by: Hanna | May 1, 2004 11:54 PM
Hey, when did you upgrade to Movable Type? Why am I always the last to hear about these things?
Oh right, I never leave our site because I'm too busy turning everything pink.
And trying to fix a broken PC to use the Aurora Toolset on. So far, so good, as they say. As long as I don't touch the BIOS or CMOS or whatever that stuff is.
I should really go to sleep. Goodnight. Thanks for everything you do, you're the best.
Still loving, etc.
Posted by: Hanna | May 1, 2004 11:57 PM
Thanks for the kind words, Hanna. I do get a few visitors from your site everyday. And I remember when you were on the NWVault front page because I got a lot of visitors from your site. You have to best reviews you know.
I switched over to Movable Type a couple weeks ago. I had to give up on iBlog. Well, not so much on that but on the other websites I needed to use to get the functionality I wanted. Haloscan. Blogrolling. Etc. They'd go down and effectively take my site down. I was really annoying. Now that I'm running everything off my own site, I don't have to worry about that.
Good luck with you Windows machine. They're a real pain. I've had to arm wrestle one recently and it wasn't fun. I would strongly suggest turning on built-in firewall and downloading Mozilla Firefox or another web browser that has built in popup blocking. Also, stay away from Outlook. Basically all the Microsoft stuff. You'll have far few virus / adware / spyware problems.
Posted by: Jon | May 3, 2004 2:44 PM