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Year 2003 Zeitgeist

john — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:11:44 +0000

There are three reasons why a small website operator like myself would take the time to publish this sort of information:

# Ego to show off the monstrous numbers
# To persuade advertisers
# Curiosity

Chalk my reason up as #3. Yours too.

|Total hits:|1,599,167|
|Total page views:|468,442|
|Total visitors:|94,463|
|Total bytes transferred:|14.78 Gig|
|Starting day:|01/Jan/2003|
|Ending day:|31/Dec/2003|
|Total days covered:|365|
|Average hits per day:|4,381|
|Average page views per day:|1,283|
|Average visitors per day:|446|
|Average bytes transferred per day:|41.48 Meg|
|Average bytes transferred per second:|503 bytes|

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Search phrase	        Hits	Hits (%)
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catfish noodling        9176    10.59%
joe millionaire winner  6546     7.56%
noodling                5136     5.93%
coq au vin              4831     5.58%
baklava recipe          4234     4.89%
how to smoke a cigar    4012     4.63%
baklava                 3312     3.82%
noodling catfish        1766     2.04%
macro magic             1622     1.87%
danish christmas        1102     1.27%
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Total revenue: $305.02

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Year 2003 Zeitgeist

Q4 2003 Zeitgeist

john — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:21:23 +0000

It is that time again – another quarter has come and gone.

Average hits per day: 8,119 (+0%)
Average visitors per day: 762 (+62%)

Q3 2003 Zeitgeist

john — Sun, 05 Oct 2003 15:30:56 +0000

It is that time again – another quarter has come and gone.

Average hits per day: 8,110 (+158%)
Average visitors per day: 469 (+41%)

That small gap in August was the unfortunate combination of me being out on vacation and a power failure that outlasted my UPS.

“catfish noodling” and “noodling” were the top two search terms in Q2 and they remain in the top 4 but “baklava” and “baklava recipe” are coming on strong. Those terms barely made a dent in Q2 but something is making people search a lot more for good baklava this quarter. It could also just be an indication of my Google ranking for those terms, where I am #1 for both “recipe baklava” and “baklava recipe”

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Search phrase            Hits   Hits (%)
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noodling                 3540   10.10%
how to smoke a cigar     3002   8.60%
coq au vin               2632   7.62%
catfish noodling         2108   6.01%
baklava recipe           1929   5.50%
baklava                  1404   4.05%
noodling catfish         1230   3.51%
noodling for catfish     429    1.22%
macro magic              368    1.05%
coq au vin recipe        365    1.04%
olive garden             347    0.99%
paypal scams             342    0.98%
bathroom etiquette       320    0.91%
herb brooks              276    0.79%
geek test                268    0.76%
recipe baklava           195    0.56%
quicken 2004             144    0.41%
joe millionaire winner   143    0.41%
quicken upgrade          141    0.40%
jedi master kid          135    0.39%
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In Q3 there were 4,267 (+21%) unique search terms used to find my site. While I usually point out unique search terms in the Zeitgeist I have to say that I’ve become a bit sensitized and uninterested in the weird things people look for. Even so, there were a few that piqued my interest:

geek house projects. An interesting idea, a house made for geeks. Server closets, plenty of expansion tubes for unplanned cable runs, full house video cabling, etc. Sounds like a great project for Monster House!

damn microsoft terminal server tokens upgrade. I can just picture how frustrated this IT guy was when he did this search.

when is the next terrorist attack going to happen?. A small number of people search on this and related phrases as if the answer is on the Internet.

Thanks for visiting. See you next quarter.

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Q3 2003 Zeitgeist

Q2 2003 Zeitgeist

john — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:25:23 +0000

Another quarter has come and gone here at John’s Jottings. In the spirit of the Google Zeitgeist I present the Q2 2003 Zeitgeist. The data is filtered to exclude traffic coming from my internal network.

Average hits per day: 3,141 (+128%)
Average visitors per day: 333 (+55%)

In Q1 joe millionaire winner made up about 45% of the hits from searches – in Q2 things are spread out a bit better:

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Search phrase                   Hits    Hits (%)
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catfish noodling                1317    9.26%
noodling                        1094    7.70%
macro magic                     1017    7.15%
coq au vin                      821     5.78%
noodling catfish                700     4.92%
joe millionaire winner          311     2.19%
coq au vin recipe               211     1.48%
noodling for catfish            195     1.37%
quicken 2004                    184     1.29%
recipe baklava                  137     0.96%
movable type templates          129     0.91%
joe millionaire                 105     0.74%
no suitable installation
target found for package     95      0.67%
quicken upgrade                 86      0.60%
baklava recipe                  77      0.54%
coleen rowley                   76      0.53%
star_wars_kid.wmv               71      0.50%
recipe coq au vin               69      0.49%
how to smoke a cigar            67      0.47%
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Out of the 3525 (+126%) unique search terms used to get to my site in Q2, these are some of the most baffling or in some way interesting (to me anyway). You’ve got to wonder about people sometimes.

what are some sports?
email address of john in utah 2003 – Good luck!
need a good satisfying book to read
johns next job – I hope he found it on Google.
john is a geek
how to tell someone to shut up – Shut up!
how to bring luck to my dice
how expensive is nicks fishmarket as of 2003? – Plenty!
how much money does the argosy casino make by people betting and then losing – Plenty!
what would you have done differently with the benefit of hindsight? – Plenty!

I also get some pretty weird searches people do directly on my site via the built-in search functionality. The weirdest came in on June 13th: attack new york city next time attackon monday june16 2oo3. Why use os instead of 0s? Is this some sort of weird search spam by someone trying to worry bloggers into thinking another attack is coming? Very odd.

In general the increase in hits is directly related to the increase in content which then results in an increase of people coming via a search. Of course very few of those actually turn into regular readers. To those who are – thank you.

Thanks for visiting. See you next quarter.

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Q2 2003 Zeitgeist

Q1 2003 Zeitgeist

john — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 04:28:58 +0000

So Joe Millionaire fans listen up, I’ve found a great resource for buying interesting Joe Millionaire related items including mint condition Playboy magazines featuring former Joe girls. Wow, imagine that!

Check out the Joe Millionaire auctions on Amazon.com!

Now back to our regular program…

Spurred on by Eric Barzeski presenting his monthly referral search terms I’ve decided to do something similar on a quarterly basis, sort of in-between his and the Google Zeitgeist. The data is filtered to exclude traffic coming from my internal network.

Average hits per day: 1,376
Average visitors per day: 215

Those big spikes in February were caused by me being #1 on Google for joe millionaire winner and a host of other Joe related searches. Unfortunately it makes for a rather boring Top 20 list for Q1.

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Search phrase                   Hits      Hits (%)
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joe millionaire winner          5,083     44.57%
joe millionaire                   620	   5.44%
winner of joe millionaire         405      3.55%
who won joe millionaire           335      2.94%
macro magic                       288      2.53%
ask geeves.com                    212      1.86%
winner joe millionaire            179      1.57%
quicken upgrade                   164      1.44%
quicken 2004                      157      1.38%
performance reviews               109      0.96%
joe millionaire zora               88      0.77%
joe millionaire discussion         81      0.71%
www.ask geeves.com                 64      0.56%
joe millionaire  winner            62      0.54%
joe millionaire   winner           60      0.53%
joe millionaire girls              59      0.52%
zora joe millionaire               58      0.51%
joe millionaire who won            53      0.46%
the winner of joe millionaire      50      0.44%
turbo tax upgrade                  45      0.39%
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Out of the 1562 unique search terms used to get to my site in Q1, these are some of the most baffling or in some way interesting (to me anyway). You’ve got to wonder about people sometimes.

2003 email address of company of john
book review for live from new york: an uncensored history of saturday night live by tom shales and james andrew miller
joe millionaire sandals
danish girls from aalborg
what happens now that joe millionaire has chosen zora
why would you not find an enterprise network in the real world that exactly fits the osi model?
why doesnt johns html file read johns xml file
joe millionaire winner joe millionaire winner joe millionaire winner
my package of ground chuck is brown and red instead of only red. is this bad?

Thanks for visiting. See you next quarter.

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Q1 2003 Zeitgeist