Six weeks
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I guess I can stop any time I want.
(Aside from noting that I have not posted or kick started the db in a long time, I have nothing of interest to say.)
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I tired of cranberry
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Thus I decided to burn eyeballs with orange. Orange isn’t the new pink. Orange is too subversive to be the new pink, or the anti-pink. Goths “go pink” (yawn) they don’t “go orange.”
I was feeling left out in the facelift department: Whatever changes every other day, Christa just got a new home. I don’t like fixed width, and, most importantly, I was bored this afternoon. Funny how many website changes boil down to that.
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Eye-tracking
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Many of the points in this eye-tracking study are rehashes of common knowledge (people ignore ad banners, headers draw the eye) or just good design regardless of medium (fancy fonts are bad). But it’s still useful to see the enumerated (and neatly summarized).
Methinks I need to rethink font sizes, possibly on this site and certainly Shred. I was more concerned about eye strain; but now it sounds like I’ve been encouraging readers to skim. That’s no good.
Web design
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For those of you who wonder why I’ve made heavy use of WordPress templates lately, see this instructive infographic.
Three months of gathering data
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So, this website’s been back up a few months now, and I’m bored at the moment. That means it’s time to check my Google Analytics data! Specifically, I’m looking at the period between May 5 and August 5.
Highlights
Top referring site: CrimeSpot
Most disappointed referred visitors: Pure Yaoi
Most amusing keywords: “should i give out my vin number?”
Most disturbing keywords: “dead corpses of babies and toddler crime scene photos”
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Enough about me
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I set up Google Analytics for this site. My reasons are numerous: it’s easy (especially with the plugin), it’s an entertaining distraction, and Google’s going to officially rule the world someday so I may as well master the tools of our new overlords. So I now know something about you, my visitors. I hope you will find this amusing rather than freaky. (And, frankly, if you find Google Analytics data freaky, your head should probably have exploded by now.)
This site has been visited by folks from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. (Clearly, I must work on penetrating South America and Antarctica.) The most geographically distant visitor hails from Burpengary in Brisbane. The majority of visitors are from the U.S., with the U.K. a distant second.
87.68% of visitors are on Windows; 6.52% use Macs and 5.80% use Linux. 52.17% use Internet Explorer and 39.13% use Firefox, with the remainder divided between Safari, Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror, and Netscape.
The majority of visitors have their browsers set to one flavor of English, but some are set for Finnish, Russian, Turkish, French, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. So either those folks are just here for the images, or they’re bilingual. (Which is just cool. And the fact that I think it’s cool, rather than the natural state of things, just emphasizes the fact that I’m from the U.S.)
The homepage is the most popular entry page; second most popular is an image of the Broodwich Larry made a couple years ago. I removed all the images a while ago when I started revamping the site, but the people have spoken. For your viewing pleasure (and in, uh, honor of the fact that the Aqua Teen movie has now disappeared from theaters): Gentlemen, behold! The Broodwich!
Most visitors reach this site via images.google.com or plain old google.com, which furthers support the theory that a fair number of visitors don’t love me; they just want to see the sandwich. That’s okay. It was a pretty cool sandwich, even if it didn’t have any bacon.
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Preparing to spend more time online again
I was thoroughly sick of blue, hence the new color scheme. I suspect I will grow quite sick of cranberry tones as well, and after a year or two do something about it. But in the meantime, I once more have something functional that I can tinker with for amusement, under no pressure. And this time, I shall be better about backing up databases and things like that.
So, it is Cinco de Mayo and I am sitting in my living room, wrapped in a bathrobe and not yet contact-enabled. It is very hard to get out of bed when both dogs have curled up so sweetly; epic pressure on the bladder is required, as well as prodding from the spousal unit. If I am very ambitious, I might go to the movies tonight. Ah, I love the weekends.
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