Last week TYWKIWDBI quietly celebrated its eleventh "blogiversary." I used this occasion to look at some of the metrics for the blog. The map above is an enlargement of the one embedded in the right sidebar, showing the general distribution of the 815,000 visits in the past year. The dots are not proportional to size (the Madrid dot is 500, the Barcelona one 5000). For more detailed information I access Quantcast, which has pull-down menus like the one below, which shows for example that readers in Spain came from 203 locations, not the four or five dots on the little map.
The biggest "user" was in Mountain View, California (38,000 visits). His name is Mr. Google.
When graphed on a monthly basis, there has been slight downward trend over the past two years, probably reflecting my gradually declining output.
The profile of readers of this blog is above. Nothing surprising, really.
BoingBoing heads the list of the other websites you like to visit, followed by Digg and Neatorama (#4 Linkwithin places the little images at the bottom of each post that tempt you to visit my old posts).
So, as the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers once said, another year passes like nothing.
I'd like to close with something more profound than these frankly meaningless numbers. The most thought-provoking video I've ever watched was one that explained the Hubble Deep Field. That was followed by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field. I'll let someone else explain:
Obviously best viewed in fullscreen mode. I can't wrap my mind around the concept that what appear to be stars are actually galaxies, each composed of billions of stars. And there are a hundred billion galaxies.
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