Statistics and little game (2)

By Julien on Saturday, January 10 2009, 14:39 - BlogLife - Permalink

With a couple of years worth of blog usage data, statistics make (a bit) more sense. I've recently hit the 150,000 pages viewed target and I thought a quick update could be interesting. It must be noted that strong spam bots artifacts are perturbing the measures.

Regarding to the OS, browser and country, figures are relatively similar to those 2 years ago: Windows XP/MC: 76% (GNU/Linux: 5%, OSX: 4%), Explorer: 61% (Firefox: 24%), US: 36% (UK: 16%, France: 13%). More precisely, it can be noted that univ-mulhouse.fr has been mostly abandoned, and curiously replaced by kuleuven.be :) .

The UK ultramarathons list is by far the most read article now. The top of the article ranking is mostly filled in with entries related to the UTMB and the Ironman, but surprisingly The tortoise and the hare is well ranked too. I'm not sure this article is what people expected to read!

PlaymBD having been stalled for a while, the first non-search engine website to provide me with readers is realendurance.

The little game is similar to the previous one: can you guess the keywords most people type in search engines before ending up on my blog? You can post your list of 5 words as a comment. You will be rewarded some points proportionally to the popularity of each word in the top 30 this time. Because the top 5 is a bit similar to the previous ranking, the keywords already present in this list are not allowed. Results on the 19th. Good luck !

Ultra blog engine stats, the return.

Comments

1. On Saturday, January 10 2009, 20:18 by Fred

Tortoise, Hare, Race, Team, Running.

2. On Monday, January 12 2009, 09:52 by Yannick

Sláinte, Hardmoors, Serpentine, Fiennes, Haddock.
"univ-mulhouse.fr has been mostly abandoned, and curiously replaced by kuleuven.be" :
Alsaciens are Belgian people who wanted to go to Switzerland but who got lost on the way there. :)
I wanted to check if it's possible the other way...

3. On Monday, January 12 2009, 10:45 by Bastoon

Ironman, UK, is, Nice, sex (if this last one is not in the list, you should write an article on this subject to get even more visits)

4. On Monday, January 12 2009, 10:48 by Julien

Bastoon: I forgot to precise that words must be at least 3-letter long (the stats engine discards shorter ones). But otherwise well spotted, I know that 'UK' is one of the top words.

5. On Monday, January 12 2009, 15:54 by Julien

Bastoon: in case this wasn't obvious, you're allowed to re-submit your answer.

6. On Monday, January 12 2009, 15:59 by rach

socks, beach, jellyfish, pinball, apple

7. On Tuesday, January 13 2009, 00:10 by Bastoon

I needed time to think about my new proposition...
Let's say:
Ironman, Hardmoors, Nice, hike, London

Indeed, I don't think that sex is in good position in your list, but seriously think about it.

8. On Monday, January 19 2009, 10:37 by Julien

Top 30 Keywords:

ultramarathon6.04%
ultra4.67%
map2.80%
marathon2.18%
running2.15%
training1.82%
marathons1.66%
20081.61%
ironman1.60%
blanc1.49%
utmb1.46%
guy1.42%
tough1.42%
the1.39%
mont1.33%
trail1.01%
decathlon1.01%
and0.93%
london0.89%
sport0.87%
ultramarathons0.83%
vanoise0.78%
night0.77%
race0.76%
run0.74%
for0.69%
brighton0.69%
park0.61%
tour0.58%
hardmoors0.58%
(Bold words are newcomers.)

Therefore, the results are:
  1. Bastoon: 3.07 (3/5)
  2. Fred: 2.91 (2/5)
  3. Yannick: 0.58 (1/5)
  4. rach: 0.00 (0/5)
rach: the only word of your list ever mentioned is 'socks'.

9. On Monday, January 19 2009, 11:10 by Bastoon

Mmmmmm... Can I make a claim?
I think that I AM the winner !!! I got 3 good answers (not two). You forgot to take into account "London", didn't you ?

10. On Monday, January 19 2009, 11:19 by rach

socks are great!

11. On Monday, January 19 2009, 11:26 by Julien

Oops! Sorry Bastien. Mistake corrected.

12. On Tuesday, January 20 2009, 21:00 by Fred

Yay, I am the Poulidor of the blog, cool!