ComfortZone

I’ve just fin­ished the first year of my adven­ture in ‘personal publishing’ with this blog, and to cel­e­brate I’m going to share a bunch of Com­fort­Zone stats with you (and show you a pic­ture of me on my real first birthday!).

This sure has been a good cre­ative outlet for me. I have enjoyed the inter­ac­tions and com­ments I’ve gotten from people, and I have learned a ton from fid­dling with it. Here are some Com­fort­Zone stats from Google Analytics:

Con­tent:

• Number of posts: 142
• Number of com­ments: 231
• Most pop­u­lar post: Big Banner Back­ground, 244 views
  (lots of these visits are from people googling  the word ‘banner’)
  Second most pop­u­lar: New­berg Friends Church, 149 views
  Third most pop­u­lar: Austin Abducted!, 44 views

Vis­i­tors:

• Unique vis­i­tors: 920
• Record number of vis­i­tors in one day: 58
  (Thanks to Sherry for putting a link in the church newslet­ter!)
  
• Total visits: 3,059
• Vis­i­tors have come from 37 dif­fer­ent coun­tries and 43 dif­fer­ent states

Other (I think it’s interesting!):

• Browsers: 49% of you use Fire­fox, 34% of you use Inter­net Explorer, and 17% use Safari
• Oper­at­ing sys­tems: 41% of you are on Macs, and 59% of you are on PCs
• Traf­fic Sources: Refer­ring sites: 58%, direct traf­fic: 29%, and search engines: 13%
• Top refer­ring sites: mau​riand​sh​erry.com (98), greg​gs​gam​bles.com (88), and janell​woods.​blogspot.com (77) — Thanks!

My goals for the next year are to keep learn­ing CSS, keep writ­ing, design­ing and draw­ing, and keep having fun with it.