Minty goodness.
by Dan Bruno
I have Mint installed on here as a novelty more than anything, but as I’ve been getting steady traffic (read: more than ten visitors a day) for months now there’s enough data to pick out a couple of interesting trends.
Referrers
Most of my referral hits come from three places:
- Google searches for “cool mac stuff,” which land here. Cool Mac Stuff is the most popular page on the site, and it’s easy to see why.
- Google searches for “naked quad run,” which land here (and will now doubtless land at this entry as well). Naked Quad Run is a tradition at Tufts in which people run naked laps around the quad to blow off steam before finals. Naturally it attracts a good amount of outside attention.
- StumbleUpon, which lands here. Someone added my roundup of the xkcd meetup to the database — under “Unknown,” for some reason — and every few days I get a big surge of Stumble-y traffic.
Of the other miscellaneous referrers, “expired salad dressing” recurs with notable regularity.
Browsers
59% of my visitors use Firefox!
Okay, that’s somewhat ridiculous, given Firefox’s ~15% market share. I blame the hordes of StumbleUpon fans for skewing the results.
After that, it’s 23% IE, 14% Safari, 2% Camino, 2% everything else.
Operating systems
65% Windows, 31% OS X, 3% Linux, 1% other.
No surprises here. The Mac percentage is likely bolstered by my incessant blathering about Apple. I do wonder about that “other” percent point, though.
Thanks for pushing me over the edge and into buying a license – I’ve been lusting after Mint since before I had a site to run it on. And glad I did it now: I’ve lost all the unique visits (all 131, that is) I’ve had this week. Must. have. traffic. ;)