More fun with sitemeter

The javascript version of sitemeter gives one all sorts of fun information about visitors to the blog.

One thing it does it show what people searched on to reach the blog if they came from a search page. Most of the time people who end up here by searching have entered a search term such as "submissive," "slave," etc.

Today, some unfortunate soul was obviously looking for recipe ideas and searched on "pot roast" and ended up here (thanks to a recent post of Mine entitled "You Can't Rush the Pot Roast"). Now, that post I like to think had some helpful information in it, but had nothing to do with pot roast, per se. Apologies to the "pot roast" searcher.

Another thing that sitemeter tells Me is what browser people use to access these pages. Those numbers are a bit interesting:

IE has about 73% of the traffic, Firefox about 18%. Nothing too surprising there, but I was shocked to see that 3% of the traffic comes from people still using Netscape. Who knew there was still even a Netscape browser?

Sitemeter also lets me know what operating system people use. The thing that struck Me there is that there Windows 98 still has a 4% share and the ultra-crappy Windows ME still has 2%. If those numbers are close to an accurate sampling of people's PCs out there, Microsoft is leaving a lot of money on the table. And a surprising (to Me) showing by Windows 2000 with 11%.

Geographically, 60% of My traffic comes from the US, 18% from the UK, 7% from Canada. Italy has 3%, the Netherlands andNorway, 2% each. Ireland, Indonesia, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Korea, and Indonesia 1% each.

New Link: Madeline in the Mirror. Worth checking out.

I admit there is a perverse glee in looking at the sitemeter results and finding a site linked to Mine that I didn't know about previously.

Happy weekend to all.