Heissatopia Zeitgeist 2009

Yes, my guest, it’s that time again.

In what has now become a steady tradition (see 2007 and 2008), here’s our annual omphaloskeptic statistical zeitgeist, wherein you can see all sorts of interesting and useless data about us (and you too!). 

Enjoy the nerdiness :)

Blog information

Total posts: 420

Top posters:

• Nancy (408 or 97.1%)
• Andrew (10 or 2.4%) (oops… :) )
• Rachel (2 or 0.5%)

Total number of comments: 1,803

• Average comments per post: 4.3
• Number of posts with no comments: 28

RSS subscribers: 121

Most discussed posts:

• It’s true (28)
• Two big worries (25)
• Baby Pool (23)
• The birth story (19)
• We are now accepting guesses… (18)
• I’m a hippie (16)
• The Sandwich Question (16)
• Don’t do Dido’s (15)
• Baby Names (14)
• Happy April Fool’s Day (13)
• I’m in a bad mood (12)
• Flashback Friday: Juice and My Grandma’s Food Storage (12)

Top searches leading to our blog:

• heissatopia (just add a .com and you’re good…)
• kangaroo zoo coupons (second year in a row)
• “blue jeans protect my knees”
• baby hairy ears (second year in a row, baby!)
• the blobject
• maadi house
• funeral potatoes
• garbage city

Label cloud as of today: 

Visitor information

Overall site visitors over the past year:

• Absolute unique visitors: 7,986
• Visits: 27,178
• Pageviews: 47,503
• Average Time on Site: 02:06

Top referring sites
Since over 50% of all visits to our blog come from referring sites, I’ve added a new section this year. “Referring site” refers to the site you used to get here (i.e. if you clicked on a link at Facebook or someone else’s blog rather than type our blog address in the browser directly). If your blog is on the list below it doesn’t necessarily mean that you personally have contributed all x% of the traffic—it just means that someone (you or one of your readers) clicked on our link from your site.

• facebook.com (5.9% of all referring sites) (side note: 29% of those visits were first-timers. Cool.)
• myrnalayton.blogspot.com (5.4%)
• thebookguardian.blogspot.com (5.1%)
• myadventuresintucson.blogspot.com (4.5%) (another side note: 25% of those visits were also first timers. You guys generate the most new traffic (after Google and Facebook))
• dougandgeneenjacobsonfamily.blogspot.com (4.1%)
• davidlayton.blogspot.com (3.8%)

Top countries:

• United States (76.3%)
• Egypt (11.7%)
• Canada (2.4%)
• United Kingdom (2.1%)
• France (1.3%)
• Australia (0.45%)
• Germany (0.42%)
• India (0.36%)
• Vietnam (0.36%)
• Israel (0.28%)

Top states:

• Utah (63.4% of US visits)
  • Provo (21.7% of Utah visits)
  • Orem (20.8%)
  • Salt Lake City (16.2%)
  • Spanish Fork (8.2%)
  • Lindon (7.7%)
• Arizona (3.84%)
• California (3.6%)
• Nevada (2.6%)
• Texas (2.5%)
• Michigan (2.1%)
• Colorado (2.0%)
• New York (1.6%)
• Washington (1.6%)
• Virginia (1.4%)

Browsers:

• Firefox 43.43%
  • 3 (70.60% of Firefox)
  • 3.5 (23.14%)
  • 2 (6.04%)
  • 1.5 (0.07%)
  • 1 (0.04%)
  • 3.6 (0.03%)
• Internet Explorer 40.88%
  • 7.0 (63.33% of IE)
  • 8.0 (24.17%)
  • 6.0 (12.42%) (Die, IE6, die.)
• Safari 10.01%
• Chrome 4.71%
• Opera 0.39%

Operating systems:

• Windows (80.92%)
  • XP (62.86% of Windows)
  • Vista (34.44%)
  • NT (1.74%)
  • 7 (0.32%) (7 only came out in October, but it’s still weird that more people use ancient NT)
  • 98 (0.25%) (Who’s still using that?!)
• Macintosh (17.20%)
  • 10.5—Leopard (72.75% of Mac)
  • 10.4—Tiger (9.69%)
  • 10.6—Snow Leopard (7.49%) (Released in August… our Mac readers haven’t really upgraded)
  • Unknown Intel (5.22%)
  • Unknown PPC (4.86%)
• Linux (0.60%)
• iPhone (0.54%)