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2009 Year in Numbers – Part 2 – Everything Else
Jan 9th
Continuing along with my ocd 2009 year in numbers moving on to the year in swimming.
In 2008 I went 290,000 yards, 162 miles, and this year I set myself a goal of going at least 200 miles. I didn’t want to set the goal too much higher then 2008 since I knew that at the end of February we would be having Caroline and I wouldn’t be in the pool to much after that.
Things went much better then anticipated and I managed to go 387,000 yards, 240 miles.
January and February were really strong months and as expected after Caroline was born I didn’t get in the pool for over a month. Then things picked up again and in July I managed to post an all time high of 32.9 miles. October through December were pretty slow months starting with a week off for Amanda and Ben’s wedding, then I got sick in November, and finally the holidays in December.
In addition to keeping track of yards swam I also kept track of hours in the pool. I swam for a total of 112.5 hours or 4.69 days. Holy cow that’s a lot of hours in the pool. If your doing that math that works out my average swimming speed of 2.14 miles per hour.
The other thing I kept track of was the break out of swim vs kick, vs pull.
Obviously the swim is going make up the majority of the yards but I was surprised by the 46,000 yards kick. You can see that I’m not a real big fan of drill since it barely registers on the graph.
Other numbers for the year.
- Netflix movies – We rented 52 movies this year. Certainly no record based on how many I hear other folks go through but that works out to one a week which isn’t too shabby.
- Jen drives about 1,400 miles a month, and since I’m now working much closer to the house I only drive about 650 miles a month.
2009 Year in Numbers – Part 1 – mfdc statistics
Jan 7th
Last year was a record year for web site traffic with 117,263 hits. Compare that to 2008 were it was only 79,870 hits.
By month it broke out like:
It was on a steadily increase right from January through July when then things just fell off a cliff. I’m not exactly sure what happened there but it picked up again in October and then went right back into the toilet to end the year. I can understand the December numbers since there were really no web page updates or blog entries to speak of so the site got a little stale.
If remember last years summary I was giving my Canadian friends a hard time since I had more people from France, Poland, and Mexico visiting the site then from Canada and I’m glad to say that this year you didn’t let any other countries beat you. Unfortunately it wasn’t a matter of you beating anyone else but rather a rather large drop in the amount of traffic from every other international country.
Last year Canada accounted for 744 hits but this year it was only 364. I’m not sure what caused the huge drop in international visitors other then it’s possible that they are not being correctly accounted for. Last year there were 5,466 hits that couldn’t be attributed to a specific country or domain and this year that number was 11,098 so I have to believe that somewhere in this number here were countries not being accounted for correctly.
This year I added Google Analytics to the site which helped me track how people actually find there way to mfdc. Like I would expect the vast majority of visitors are coming directly to the site either by bookmark or just typing in the web address and most of those people or repeat viewers. This really isn’t surprising since the audience is really family and friends and since I don’t allow search engines to index any of the main site it limits what your going to find using a search engine.
None the less there are still what I would consider a large number of people who get to the site by coming from other locations like:
- blogger.com
- facebook.com
- google.com
- images.google.com
- twitter.com
- images.google.ca
- notebooks-brazil.blogspot.com. (Beats me. When I saw this a couple of months back I tried to hunt it down but couldn’t find anything.)
- images.google.co-uk
The other interesting thing is look at the search terms that people typed into a search engine that lead them to the site. As you would expect “mceachern family” and variations of peoples names with “mceachern” show up frequently but here’s a couple others exactly as they were typed into search engines that sent people to the blog
- alex matisse
- don’t forget your lunch box
- antique bobsleds
- sesame place secrets
- sesame princeton
- abe’s log cabin
- canada trip family pictures
- rhyming words with hiatus
- pictures: “hello. anyone home?”
- pictures of you, pictures of me.
- picasso baseball pictures
- zee zed canada
Some of these I can tell exactly where they ended up but others make absolutely no sense. I mean really, picasso baseball pictures, rhyming words with hiatus?
And now for the mfdc Top 5 most popular pages of the year, drum roll please…
- Caroline’s first pictures (http://www.mceachernfamily.com/2009/caragrace/index.html) Was anyone surprise by this?
- Alex’s 7th Birthday Party (http://www.mceachernfamily.com/2009/alexparty/index.html)
- Caroline’s 2nd set of pictures (http://www.mceachernfamily.com/2009/caroline/index.html)
- Amanda and Ben’s Wedding (http://www.mceachernfamily.com/2009/amandawedding/index.html)
- Andrew’s 4th Birthday (http://www.mceachernfamily.com/2009/andrewparty/index.html)
2008 Year in Numbers
Jan 5th
mfdc in numbers
It was a record year for web site traffic this year with 79,870 hits from 1,803 unique visitors. In the overall scheme of web site volume 79,000 visitors isn’t all that many but the target audience for this site is meant to be small and this still works out to 218 hits a day which is fine. When I include all the auto crawlers from seach engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc, we had a total of 108,858 hits.
By month the trend looks like this:
I would have assumed that the huge tickup in traffic in November would have come around the time I posted the Disney vacation pictures but after looking at the traffic that wasn’t the case. Someone from France (see below) pretty much went through the entire site in about 10 minutes so it was probably some type of automated collector even though the browser type doesn’t indicate that’s what it was.
Top visitors to the site came from addresses ending in .net, followed by a chunk of unknown, then .com. The next three largest groups came from France (1,961 – 857 being the suspected automated web site crawler from above), Poland (827), and Mexico (772). You Canadian visitors came in 7th with 744 hits.
Excluding the home page, blog home page and rss feeds the most popular page was the January trip to Great Wolf Lodge, Christmas pictures from 2007, and Alex’s Matisse.
The top browsers used to visit the site were Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari (mainly mac users), and Opera. There were 23 hits from a Lynx user which surprises me since Lynx is a text based and out site is pretty much graphics driven. (Then again it was only 23 hits, only for the home page, but it spanned from January to September so whoever it was kept coming back.)
Blog Posts
Compared to previous years I managed to get out a couple more blog posts then years past with 70 items. That accounts for 24% of all posts and I’ve been posting on or off since July of 2004. It’s hard to beleive that it’s been that it’s been that long which got me thinking how long I’ve had this site up. Looking at the WHOIS record I’ve owned mfdc since October of 2001. Holy cow, 2001. I remember I got the site while Jen was pregant with Alex as a good way to share pictures with the family. (And now she’s pregant again….cue twilight zone music.)
Swim Numbers
Ever since I was in high school I’ve more or less kept track of all my workouts. It’s a habit one of my old coaches got me into and it’s been impossible to break. It doesn’t feel like a complete workout until I’ve written it down and recorded the yardage.
This year I swam 290,600 yards which works out to about 165 miles (265 km). February and March were really down months since I took them off due to surgery so I’m relatively pleased with how far I went. The thing that’s aways a little surprising to me is that it was only 165 miles for the whole year since it sure feels like way longer while I’m in the pool. On a map 165 miles doesn’t look all that impressive and depending on which way I go from our house it doesn’t even get me out of the state.
So instead of ploting how far I’ve gone horizontally how about looking at it vertically. According to Google Earth this is what the view of our house would look like from 165 miles up. More impressive if you ask me.
Netflix
According to Netflix we rented 61 movies last year and I wactched 1 online using the “Watch Now” feature. That works out to more movies then remember watching in previous years and now that I know how many it is I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth even if I’m not one of those 260+ movies a year type person.
There you go, the 2008 ocd numbers summary.