May 26, 2012

November visitor stats

November visitor stats

I’ve been taking a closer look at Google Analytics recently because it now offers real-time visitor information. Tonight I compared the stats for November this year with the same month last year, and discovered the numbers are falling slightly. In November 2010 there were 7521 unique visitors; this year the total was 7371. The browser stats were interesting. Internet Explorer users have fallen from 55 percent to 53 percent; Firefox has fallen from 21 to 18 percent and Chrome has risen from 11 to 16 percent and Safari was steady on 11 percent.

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GoPC virtual operating system

I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online. It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include [...]

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Gentoo screenshot

Here’s a screenshot of Gentoo using a KDE desktop with a background picture of Jim and Maggie. There’s nothing uniquely special about it. A couple of extra observations from my previous post: Gentoo boots more quickly than any other distro I’ve tried; about the same as Windows XP. Some of the stable packages are out [...]

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Internet Explorer 7

I’ve installed the latest release candidate of IE7 on my laptop. It’s fairly impressive and has some features that are similar to Flock and Firefox. The most obvious improvement on previous versions of IE is the implementation of tabbed browsing. It takes a while adjusting to the look and feel, which will make the transition [...]

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Flock browser

Flock browser logo

I must say that I’m very impressed with the latest version of the Flock browser. Earlier versions were a little clumsy and not much more than Firefox clones with a light blue theme, however version 0.7.1 has some outstanding features. Proclaimed as a social browser, Flock now lives up to its name with handy features [...]

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