2009 In Retrospect

As we’re now getting a bit more touchy and feely about 2010, I’ll give a short update on the blog itself like I did at the last day of 2008 (and even the title has been recycled! again! The big trend of 2009!).

Key statistics (last year’s number in paranthesis) (2008 was the first year I blogged, so 2009 is the first complete year of data):

  • Posts: 54 (161)
  • Comments: 81 (89)
  • Hits: 399084 (242781)
  • Unique: 30561 (18882) (since the start)
  • Spam caught by akismet: 11828 (2596)
  • Most spammed month: May, 4123 (November)
  • Technorati Authority: 99 (13)
  • Technorati Rank: 78.215 (454.532)
  • Reactions registered on Technorati: no idea how to find this now! (51)
  • Incoming links (to e-mats.org) on Google: 187 (29)
  • Incoming links (to e-mats.org) on Google Blogsearch: 30 (23)

Most popular referers:

  1. google.com
  2. search.live.com
  3. google.co.uk
  4. google.de
  5. google.co.in
  6. google.ca
  7. google.fr
  8. en.blog.wordpress.com
  9. google.nl
  10. google.com.au
  11. google.pl
  12. google.se

At least two weren’t Google!

Stats I didn’t include last year, but decided to include this year (the numbers for last year in paranthesis as above) from Google Analytics:

  • Page Views: 49.403 (21.997) (+125%)
  • Visits: 38.537 (16.082) (+139%)
  • Search Engine Referers: 85.4% (70.8%) (+20%)

Most popular search terms (and some of the most popular posts):

  1. solrj
  2. svn external
  3. ssh_exchange_identification: connection timed out
  4. solrj example
  5. tortoise svn externals

And then we look ahead for the same post in 2011. Keep your pants on!

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