Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some site statistics for March:
* 28,214 unique visitors made 58,341 unique visits, reading a total of 164,309 pages,and drawing 12.36 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,882 visitors per day reading 5,300 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.81 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.06 times during the month.
* 308 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 343 via Feedburner.
* 19.1% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 55%, 20% via Virgilio (no idea what that is) and Yahoo 15% (the mysterious Tiscali was 6%). The top search phrases included "Simon World" (is the URL that hard to remember?), "Singapore Blog" and the ever-popular "Klara Smetanova".
* The most visited individual page was "And the whole world smiles with you", again testifying to the power of Google image search. A close second remains "Tiananmen Square - June 4th, 1989", which was my piece last year commemerating that event and which the front page of Google's image search under that topic.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some site statistics for February:
* 26,061 unique visitors made 56,643 unique visits, reading a total of 146,021 pages,and drawing 13.76 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 2,023 visitors per day reading 5,215 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.57 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.2 times during the month.
* 308 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 364 via Feedburner.
* 59.6% of you use IE, 22% Firefox, 3.2% Safari, 3.2% Mozilla, 1.5% Opera and 2% Netscape to browse this site. 82% of you use Windows, 5.5% Mac, 1.3% Linux.
* 15.4% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 62.5% and Yahoo 20% (and something called Tiscali was 10%). The top search phrases included "Nancy Kissel", "Simon World" (is the URL that hard to remember?), and bizarrely "Klara Smetanova", along with "Chinese New Year wishes" (Kung Hei Fat Choi).
* The most visited individual page was "Tiananmen Square - June 4th, 1989", which was my piece last year commemerating that event and which seems to have made the front page of Google's image search under that topic. Don't underestimate the power of Google.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some site statistics for January:
31,525 unique visitors made 66,395 unique visits, reading a total of 162,811 pages,and drawing 10.46 GB of bandwidth.
This equals 2,142 visitors per day reading 5,252 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.45 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.1 times during the month.
303 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 357 via Feedburner.
58.4% of you use IE, 25.5% Firefox, 4.1% Safari, 2.3% Mozilla, 1.6% Opera and 0.9% Netscape to browse this site. That's a big jump for Firefox. 83.4% of you use Windows, 6.7% Mac, 1.6% Linux. That's a jump in market share for Macs.
11.6% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 74.5% and Yahoo 20%. The top search phrases included "Nancy Kissel", "Simon World" (is the URL that hard to remember?), and bizarrely "Klara Smetanova", along with "Chinese New Year wishes" (Kung Hei Fat Choi).
The most visited individual page was "The history of Chinese fakes (updated)", a look at the supposed map showing the Chinese beat Columbus to America. I'm watching George W. Bush's State of the Union right now and they seem to speaking English, not Mandarin.
Hey guys, i see that MAJ fellow has now posted on his freewebs site about half a dozen porn shots of himself with his little Chinese chicky babe! Didn't know he was into home made porn as well as a being a blog prank. Is it common for Chinese chicks to partake in this sorta thing?
Wow! I see ACB has also seen the MAJ porn site at chinaeros.blog.com and she's really prudish about it. He had them up on his freewebs site the other week but deleted them all about an hour after I started alerting the readers of various blogs.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some site statistics for December:
* 28,233 unique visitors made 64,730 unique visits, reading a total of 211,834 pages,and drawing 10.99 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 2,088 visitors per day reading 6,833 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 3.27 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.29 times during the month.
* 286 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 247 via Feedburner.
* 63.8% of you use IE, 20.8% Firefox, 3.2% Safari, 2.3% Mozilla, 1.4% Opera and 1.1% Netscape to browse this site. 84.9% of you use Windows, 5.3% Mac, 1.8% Linux.
* 9.2% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 77.8% and Yahoo 17%. The top search phrases remained "Muzi Mei Blog", "Simon World" (is the URL that hard to remember?), and bizarrely "Christmas in Korea."
* The most visited individual page was "The Way of Sushi". It was pretty funny. The WTO category and posts also received plenty of visits.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some site statistics for November:
* 25,028 unique visitors made 54,552 unique visits, reading a total of 250,786 pages,and drawing 8.36 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,818 visitors per day reading 8,359 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 4.59 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.17 times during the month.
* 259 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 216 via Feedburner.
* 706% of you use IE, 16.1% Firefox, 2.9% Safari, 1.8% Mozilla, 1.2% Opera and 1% Netscape to browse this site. 87.3% of you use Windows, 4.9% Mac, 1.5% Linux.
* 29% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 70.5% and Yahoo 22.8%. The top search phrases remained "Nancy Kissel", "Mu Mu China blog" (thank you, New York Times) and "Simon World", for which I retain my number one ranking. Phew.
* The most visited individual page was "Hong Kong's democracy timetable", thanks to an Instalanche.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some stats for October:
* 29,965 unique visitors made 64,929 unique visits, reading a total of 144,141 pages,and drawing 13.02 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 2,095 visitors per day reading 4,650 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.21 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.16 times during the month.
* 243 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 191 via Feedburner.
* 66.2% of you use IE, 19% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 1.8% Mozilla, 1% Opera and 1% Netscape to browse this site. 85.8% of you use Windows, 5.7% Mac, 1.4% Linux.
* 12.7% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 70.5% and Yahoo 22.8%. The top search phrases remained "Nancy Kissel", "Robert Kissel" and "Icered", and happily "Simon World". Luckily I'm number one for that last search.
* The most visited individual page was "Asia's sad obsession with Nazi-ism".
Before I get to the numbers for September, a few important announcements.
1. With the help of my good buddy Jim, I have registered and steup the website http://www.simonworld.net as a secondary adress for this blog. Both sites will have exactly the same information and format, and either can be read, linked, or referenced in the usual manner. There is no need to adjust your bookmarks or links, but this should make it easier for those who find the .mu.nu domain too difficult to deal with while providing a potential backup site...just in case.
2. I have had the pleasure of using Phin from apothegm design to do some maintenance work around the site. The response was quick, the cost modest and the results perfect. If you need any site work or design help, give 'em a call.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
For those interested, some stats for September:
* 28,178 unique visitors made 61,508 unique visits, reading a total of 166,466 pages,and drawing 13.23 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 2,050 visitors per day reading 5,548 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.7 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.18 times during the month.
* 1,959 visited this site via their favourites/bookmarks. 217 subscribe via Bloglines and 178 via Feedburner.
* 65.6% of you use IE, 16.2% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 1.4% Mozilla, 1.3% Opera and 1% Netscape to browse this site. 82.4% of you use Windows, 5.6% Mac, 1.1% Linux.
* 15.1% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 74.4% and Yahoo 17.6%. The top search phrases were "Nancy Kissel", "Robert Kissel", "Simon World" (still no. 1 for that one!) and "Icered".
* The most visited individual page remains the "Nancy Kissel trial archive".
It would have made more sense all round to have the Friday and Monday off. The travel industry would have preferred that as well. Still, can't expect sense from the SAR govt.
Might be accepting gainful employment in your neck of the woods soon.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some stats for August:
* 24,049 unique visitors made 58,697 unique visits, reading a total of 183,913 pages,and drawing 9.58 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,893 visitors per day reading 5,933 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 3.13 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.44 times during the month.
* 1417 visited this site via their favourites/bookmarks. 217 subscribe via Bloglines and 133 via Feedburner.
* 61% of you use IE, 15% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 1.6% Mozilla, 1% Opera and 1% Netscape to browse this site. 75.8% of you use Windows, 5.7% Mac, 1.1% Linux.
* 10.6% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 73.8% and Yahoo 19%. The top search phrases were "Nancy Kissel", "Robert Kissel" and "Icered".
* Unsurprisingly, the most visited individual page was the "Nancy Kissel trial archive".
My pleasure Simon! I may not stay this prolific, but I'll certainly give it my best shot... your readership has been very obliging with interesting commentary.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some stats for July:
* 19,751 unique visitors made 52,858 unique visits, reading a total of 132,785 pages,and drawing 7.33 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,705 visits per day reading 4,283 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.51 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.67 times during the month.
* 953 added this site their to favourites. 208 subscribe via Bloglines and 121 via Feedburner.
* 63% of you use IE, 18% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 2.2% Mozilla, 1.5% Opera and 1% Netscape to browse this site. 81.3% of you use Windows, 5.7% Mac, 1.3% Linux.
* 10.7% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 54.8% and Yahoo 31.3%. The top search phrases were "Nancy Kissel", "Simon World" (at least I'm number one for that) and "Korean babes" (thanks Dan.
* The most visited individual pages were the "Nancy Kissel trial archive" and "Getting the right answer".
953 people added you to their Favourites THIS MONTH?! That's a lot a new regular readers. I've always wanted to ask though, how on earth do you have technology that tells you that someone, somewhere added you to their Favourites? I just can't understand how that would register.
1,700+ visits per day? That's more than the Peking Duck isn't it?
Oh, by the way, please pass on my thanks to Dave (?) for holding the fort while you were away. 2 weeks without the Linklets isn't something I want to repeat anytime soon.
I get the data from my server stats. The numbers ignore visits from robots and search engines, but will inevitably include some spammers and others that aren't human visitors. That's right, aliens visit this site! As for the favourites, it comes from the same stats package. I assume each time someone does it, the browser makes a note of it. The number does seem high, so I'm not sure of it, but it might also reflect those using Firefox's live updates etc. I agree they seem high, but it flatters my ego, and that's what this is all about!
Richard likely gets more visitors, but you'd need to ask him.
Thanks. I remember Echo once saying in a comment that TPD has 1,500 visitors. Anyway, 1,500/1,700 are both good for a China-related site I think.
BTW, I popped out this morning (in Guangzhou) and passed a few petrol stations with amazingly long queues. The driver told me what what going on. There's a story in today's SCMP called "Petrol supplies are suspended or reduced" which explains. Interesting.
Hope you're going to crack on with your economy posts. Me and a couple of mates are standing by. Also found a new China economy blog called Survived Sars. The guy mainly writes about the Yuan exchange rate. It's worth checking out.
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As usual, some stats for June:
* 20,964 unique visitors made 51,549 unique visits, reading a total of 118,911 pages and drawing 6.63 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,718 visits per day reading 3,964 pages each day. In other words each visitor read 2.3 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.45 times during the month.
* 965 added this site their to favourites. 197 subscribe via Bloglines and 116 via Feedburner.
* 64% of you use IE, 18.1% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 2.2% Mozilla, 1.6% Opera and 2.8% Netscape to browse this site. 83.2% of you use Windows, 5.7% Mac, 1.6% Linux.
* 15.4% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 54.8% and Yahoo 31.3%. The top search phrases were "Nancy Kissel", "Sarong Party Girl" (and variations thereof) and "Robert Kissel".
* The most visited individual pages were the "Nancy Kissel trial archive"; "Best journal from the 2004 ABA" (the SPG connection) and "Tiananmen Square - June 4th, 1989".
Some geographical data although it isn't that reliable (especially given the use of proxy servers):
US = 55%
EU = 8.9%
Australia = 6.5%
Singapore = 6.0%
Hong Kong = 5.0%
China = 3.3%
Alternatively a time zone share study via Sitemeter says about 35% are from Asia Pacific, 15% from Europe and 48% from the Americas.
Hmmm, I know you said that the geograpihical data isn't that reliable but only 3.3% from China? I find that figure stunning as I'm in China and via regular reading of pekingduck, I know that many others in China read simonworld.
I've just returned to China but I remember reading simonworld a few years ago (pre-Daily Linklets of course---BTW that was quite a brainwave you had there although it must take up a bit of time to search for the best links each day I imagine) when you had only a couple of hundred visitors each day.
Now it's 1,700+. COngratualtions mate, all well deserved via hard graft I'm sure.
Still, it's good to see that you've now become a bit of a leading China pundit these days and I notice you're now the Winds Of Change China boy. Onwards and Upwards!
I'm one of the 965 that added you to their Firefox Bookmarks this month. I'm just wondering how on earth you know if someone added you to their bookmarks/favourites?
Thanks very much, Joe. I get the numbers from my hosting package.
You're right on geography - it depends where the server is based, so any users of proxy servers will show up as USA. That's why I put the timezone share up as well, as it likely gives a better feel for where readers are.
* 20,230 unique visitors made 47,448 unique visits, reading a total of 91,742 pages and drawing 5.73 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,531 visits per day reading 2,959 pages each day. In other words each visitor read 1.93 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.34 times during the month.
* 731 added this site their to favourites. 182 subscribe via Bloglines and 107 via Feedburner.
* 64.7% of you use IE, 20.2% Firefox, 3.2% Safari, 2.2% Mozilla, 1.9% Opera and 1.1% Netscape to browse this site. 86% of you use Windows, 6.3% Mac, 1.6% Linux.
* 15.3% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 67.1% and Yahoo 25.8%. The top search phrases were "Hong Kong Disneyland", "Nancy Kissel" and "China's Population". And thanks to my guest blogger I'm getting a good number of hits for "Korean babes".
* The most visited individual pages were the "Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask" (thanks to a Times article linking it), "Korean babes by blog" (told you) and "Google and the Great Firewall".
Update
At Bingfeng's request, some geographical data although it isn't that reliable (especially given the use of proxy servers):
US = 52%
Australia = 8.6%
China = 5.1%
Singapore = 4.75%
Hong Kong = 4.45%
EU = 3%
Alternatively a time zone share study via Sitemeter says about 40% are from Asia Pacific, 15% from Europe and 39% from the Americas, which totals only 94%. The other 6% must be aliens.
But the good news is, I like to think that I cover the area of the world that you don't-you're the serious Asian-located business and local politics-regaling blogger, and I do mental, sentimental, and the occasional raunch.
So put us together and we get....what? A peanut butter and vegemite sandwich, or just a less wealthy Hugh Hefner? Hmm....
An honour to be reader of the month! Despite all the comments of how I have abused your credit card, you must admit that Misti is looking good, even though your kids can no longer afford school!
In return of this honour I will offer an "on the house" anal sac squeeze for your next visit- for Misti only!
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As I did last month, some stats for April:
* 19,928 unique visitors made 46,835 unique visits, reading a total of 92,802 pages and drawing 7.45 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,562 visits per day reading 3,093 pages each day. In other words each visitor read 1.93 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.35 times during the month.
* 777 added this site their to favourites. 160 subscribe via Bloglines and 49 via Feedburner.
* 61.7% of you use IE, 21.8% Firefox, 3.2% Safari, 2.3% Mozilla, 2.1% Opera and 1.1% Netscape to browse this site. 85% of you use Windows, 6.2% Mac, 1.3% Linux.
* 13.5% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 61.5% and Yahoo 26.3%. The top search phrases were "Hong Kong Disneyland", "Nancy Kissel" and "China's Population". Curiously 157 people searched for Simon World via search engines and landed at this site. I've got that top spot all tied up.
* The most visited individual pages were the "China/Japan tensions", "Best Singapore Blog" and "China's other riots".
Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.
As I did last month, some stats for March:
* 17,683 unique visitors made 45,232 unique visits, reading a total of 84,407 pages and drawing 6.1 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 1,459 visits per day reading 2,723 pages each day. In other words each visitor read 1.86 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.55 times during the month.
* 612 added this site their to favourites. 140 subscribe via Bloglines and 22 via Feedburner.
* 62.5% of you use IE, 20.1% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 2.9% Mozilla, 1.9% Opera and 1.6% Netscape to browse this site. Almost 85% of you use Windows, 6.3% Mac, 1.8% Linux and curiously some came via Web TV.
* 7% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 67.5% and Yahoo 23.6%. The top search phrases were "Hong Kong Disneyland", "Nancy Kissel" and "China's Population".
* The most visited individual pages were the "Best Singapore Blog", "Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask" (that post just keeps on going and going), "Invented the abacus but can't add up" (kindly linked by Marginal Revolution).
Damn, Simon, that is extraordinary. I guess it really is just a testament to the outstanding quality of your writing, your thinking, your topics, and just the whole blog.
As my Australian friends taught me to say, Good on you!
Just started reading your blog a few days ago, and am already quite enamored of it. I'm doing the whole 'gwailo in Hong Kong' thing, and it's interesting to see a different (and generally much more mature) perspective on things. I'm a bit of a statwhore myself, so here's mine:
17689 unique users
22430 visits (1.26 visits/visitor) 43890 pages (1.95 pages/visit) 260101 hits (11.59 hits/visit) 7.22 GB bandwidth (337.69 KB/visit)
Odd how two very different sites can attract almost exactly the same amount of visitors over the same period. Look forward to your further posts, and keep up the good work.
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