2004 Zeitgeist

In the spirit of the Google Zeitgeist, I’ve pulled together some interesting stats from chuggnutt.com for the year 2004. On to it!

  • Number of blog entries: 306
  • Approximate total number of words: 45,537
  • Average words per blog entry: 148.8
  • Total visitors: 242,433 (includes bots, spiders, aggregators, all that junk)
  • Average visitors per day: 687
  • April was the most active month, as LiveJournalers found my Matrix Name page; April 1 alone showed 6,122 visitors
  • Most popular phrases people searched this sitefor:
    • matrix name
    • matrix
    • mysql
    • html2text
    • ebooks
    • php
    • amazon
    • kermit
    • netoffice
    • black butte porter
    • sony
    • spokane
    • beer
  • Most popular phrases people entered on search engines to get here:
    • free palm ebooks (and tons of variants on this and “palm reader,” “pdb reader,” “palm ebooks,” etc.)
    • boba fett
    • matrix name
    • scary picture
    • darth maul
    • kermit the frog
    • what’s in a name
    • name generator
    • html to text conversion
    • a-team movie
    • zach braff blog
  • Internet Explorer accounts for about 62% of all traffic. Mozilla/Netscape, about 14%. Blog- and RSS-related “browsers” are running at about 17-20%.
  • People made 566 comments on this site (not counting comment spam I deleted).

Interesting year! Can’t wait to see how 2005 will shape up.