Analyze this!

Dan usually handles the technological blogging, but since he clearly doesn't want to talk about this one, I guess it's up to me.

Google Analytics is a handy service from Google which, once you've signed up, gives you information on the people who visit your website. There is an incredible level of depth in the information tracked, and as the easiest way to explain it all, here are some highlights from this blog:

All stats taken from October 1st to October 31st, as it seemed like the simplest period. In that time...

• We had 470 visits from 332 different visitors.
• The average visitor looked at 1.56 pages and spent 1 minute 5 seconds on the site (not counting time spent looking at the last/only page they visited).
• The vast majority of those 470 visits came from North America - 222 from Canada, 159 from the US - but we also had visitors from locales as exotic as Malaysia, Belgium, South Africa, and Honduras.
• The top city for visitors was Brantford, with 113 visits (no more than 74 of which were me), followed by Kitchener (30), Toronto (20), and London (13).
• The top non-Canadian city was a tie between Santa Clara (CA), New York City, Chicago, and Sydney (AU), with three visits each.
• With 33 visits, October 15 (the day after the election) was by far the busiest day on honeygarlic all month. The least busy day was October 25, with seven visits. Most days averaged between 14 and 20 visits.
• 239 visits (or just over 50%) were from people using Firefox - impressive, since I was by far the top visitor and I still use IE.
• 412 visits from Windows users, 45 from Macs, 13 from Linux.
• 4 visits from the odd combination of Apple's Safari browser and Windows.
• 1280x800 is the most popular screen resolution for our visitors, narrowly beating out 1280x768 and 1024x768. Highest resolution is 1920x1200 (how this nine-time visitor hasn't gone blind is beyond me), smallest is 720x480 (didn't know that was still possible).
• There were 53 views for Part I of my long-forgotten "History of Peanuts" series, and other 67 views for the January 2008 archive (which contains all three parts of that I did). The
  Internet has spoken, and I guess I'll be going back to that sometime.
• 150 visits came through Google, with 53 of them searching out "is xkcd shitty today" and presumably landing at Dan's post on that subject.
• Second place is 8 searches for "brantford international jazz festival blog" (if you think that's a wide gap, another 20 or so searches were for derivatives of "is xkcd shitty today").
• One person seems to think that rather than favouriting the blog homepage, they can just continually search out my review of the Oxford Circus restaurant and get here through that.
• Out of the 75 different search terms which led people here, I can't decide if my favourite is "how many moles of pencil lead are there in 10 hand written copy of mole pledge" or "what song is dun na na yeah highs chool bands play". I'm sure neither of them found what they were looking for.

Well I found it interesting.

--Ryan

(P.S.: All together now...dun na na YEAH! Dun na na YEAH!)