Statistics! About Computers! Wheeee… (and, “slimming”)
So, about 6 months ago I moved unknownroad.com to a new webhost, site5, because they had an awesome deal where I got 5 full sites (not just domain pointers) for $200 for 2 years. Which works out to about $5 a month, which I can cover with a bit of advertising. w00t. Anyway, one other bonus is that site5 has waaaaay better web statistics tracking. Which is awesome for me, because I’m a huge dork. Seriously, though, because I actually get a decent amount of traffic, it’s interesting to see the breakdown of some of the statistics (Well, “interesting” if you’re also a huge dork. If you’re a normal person, please be aware that you are now descending into hard-core nerdery. If that’s not your bag, lucky you. Just skip to the funny/horrific picture at the end of the post)
First, the OS wars. Linux on the desktop, eh? I’ll believe it when I see it. Even though 90% of my traffic is programmers looking for gdb tutorials (yes, gdb - as in, the linux debugger), most of them are using windows boxes. Ha! Also, AmigaOS and IRIX make strong showings, given that nobody has sold an Amiga or IRIX box for many, many years. Guess some people just can’t let go…
Next, the browser wars. I think Firefox has about 10% of the general “browser market”. Clearly, programmers are bigger fans. But I kind of thought Opera was more popular….
Finally, the search engines wars. Have been won. By Google. Thanks for coming out, Windows Live! MSN Live! Search Live!. But you lose.
I also discovered on my shapeshop3d.com logs that ShapeShop was downloaded over 4000 times this month. Last month? 300 times. So it was very exciting. Until I noticed that the average download size was 300 kb. ShapeShop 002 is about 5 megs. So, there were probably 300 actual downloads, and 4000 failed downloads (I just verified that this gives almost exactly the right average. Which only cements my “huge dork” assertion…). So, I have to wonder - who is this person that tried (and failed) to download ShapeShop 4000 times? Whoever it is - I like their persistence…
END NERDERY (for those skipping ahead)
Finally, something almost unbelievably fucked up. It used to be that only celebrities had their photos photochopped so that they looked thinner. But not anymore. Hewlett Packard has democratized vanity retouching, bringing it to the people. You too can now apply advanced “horizontal scaling” technology to “instantly appear more slender”. I am ashamed for the field of computer graphics…
September 28th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Hate to tell those guys, but they still look fat. Especially the dude. Also, does HP have comb-over technology too?