My average hits per month (for the 6 months preceding December, at least) are on the order of around 250 thousand hits, including those from my RSS feed. Being Dugg and Slashdotted almost simultaneously have skewed my stats to no end, however a few interesting things show up (besides of which I’m now at 586 thousand hits).

These three images are from the Analog statistics analyzer. from December 17th’s run, including 16 full days of statistics. They include more than just the article, the article being half of my total traffic for the month. These statistics are slightly rounded.

As you can see, Slashdot provided over 53% of my incoming traffic, Digg at 15%, StumbleUpon at 5%, Google US at 4%, Daring Fireball at 3%, and Del.icio.us at 2.5%. 831 other sites provided the other 17.5%.

Firefox dominates Internet Explorer in the statistics at 48.5% vs 30%, followed by Safari at 8%, and Opera at 4%. All other traffic outside of these three is less than 9.5%. Another interesting thing (though not reflected in the graph) is that people are not adopting IE7 at all: IE6 is over 80% of the IE hits, with IE7 being only 18% (the last 2% being IE4 and 5). Microsoft seems to have screwed up somewhere, people like IE6 better.

Windows is 69.5% of my traffic, which rather sucks. The graph’s Unix slice (being 97% Linux) is at 11.5%. The Macintosh crowd weighs in at 12%. Everyone else is the last 7%. Comparing the OS stats to the browser stats, it should be easy to estimate how much of my Windows users use Firefox:

So, assuming I did my math right, Firefox is the major browser on Windows now; at least from my statistic’s point of view.

Update: For all 31 days of December, I got 806 thousand hits, a little over 56 thousand hits on the article itself. Total bandwidth used is over 6.42 gigabytes. My traffic seems to be returning to normal.

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