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January 22nd, 2008

15_the_circle: (snow cottages)
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 06:53 am

[OT from cottage renovations]

start with some snow, let things warm up for a bit of a melt and then bring on a hard freeze.  what you get is a crust that with each step has a crunchiness that would be the envy of cornflake makers anywhere. 

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15_the_circle: (cottage sign)
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 08:05 am

[OT from cottage renovations]

for a while I had used the lame maploco.com visitor map service as a poor man's hit counter.  it's free and is an excellent demonstration of the adage about getting what you pay for (it can be seen over on the profile page) but I haven't had enough curiosity about traffic to this space to set up anything more useful. 

having had the need to look into outsourced website traffic reporting for a different context, a few days ago I set up a trial of stat-web.com.  this journal is a low traffic site by anybody's standards but the volume is enough to give the service a mild field test (it counts only direct traffic to this journal and skips those of you who might be reading these entries in your LJ flist (unless you read or write a comment) or via RSS feed). 

the first obvious difference is that it has a better IP-to-geolocation translation.

(click for map)

of greater interest was its client and platform breakout.  though it's hardly a scientific sample you lot are more diverse than I had imagined. 

browser
Firefox 2.032.6%
Internet Explorer 7 21.73%
Netscape 615.21%
Internet Explorer 610.86%
Safari 5238.69%
Safari 4194.34%
Netscape 7.12.17%
each 
Safari 419
Safari 419


platform
Windows XP 69.56%
Mac OS17.39%
Windows Vista6.52%
each 
Linux

more of you are running Firefox than Internet Exploder (37 and 33% respectively) and even holding out with Netscape (17%), and on even fewer Vista machines than I had expected. 

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