year-end stats

without going into tedious detail, I note at the year-end that traffic for this very blog has increased to an average 3571 hits per day - a total of over 107,000 hits this month! over the past year, higher yearning got over seven hundred thousand hits, 430,000 page-servings to sixty thousand unique visitors. rants about global warming and about OS X were among the most popular entries, along with the rise of the idiots (about the TV show Nathan Barley) and the observation that the OS X critique was extremely popular with Microsoft employees. abuse was noted from 'reversedns.resolve.ru' and from various spammers. 60% of visitors use windows, 21% apple, the rest are unknown/linux/solaris/free bsd. a disappointing 35% still use explorer, 18% use netscape, 17% are on firefox and 11% on safari. mozilla users account for 4% and netnewswire readers for almost 3%. opera and other browsers fall below 1%. ten spiders visited this month, including three unidentified ones. michael berube deserves thanks for directing readers this way, more so than any other site except search engines. apart from the US of A, readers in australia and thailand, brazil and canada, japan and china, south korea and europe made a good showing among the 52 countries represented.