A Quick Look Back at 2008

Last year about this time I posted A Quick Look Back at 2007. I thought it would be fun to look over the Google Analytics data again this year. Here's what we have.

This blog has increased unique readers from over 18,000 to over 36,000. This is amazing!

The traffic sources changed quite a bit:

2007:
Referring Sites 61.33%
Direct Traffic 21.72%
Search Engines 16.95%

2008:
Referring Sites 45.08%
Direct Traffic 39.40%
Search Engines 15.52%

Clearly the most popular posts were about Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009. But,
The Coolest Pull-up Bar has moved up to be my number one post which amazes me.

The top 5 locations are still the same but Russia has moved into the 6th position very close to Canada:

United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Canada

This year 62 iPhones, 14 iPods, and 4 Sun workstations. No Wii or Playstations. 50% more Macs have visited the site too.

Next year should be even more interesting with an economy fully of ponzi schemes.