tag archive: stats

Here’s my Saturn SL1, off-road in 2004:

I drove it off the lot in April 1998 with 30 miles on the odometer. Twelve Minnesota winters, five-hundred fill-ups, and 154,000 miles later, I’m still driving it. I’ll be happy if I can stay with it for several more years.

The numbers from twelve years of overly-meticulous recordkeeping tell me that this car has provided great value.

Cost Per Mile

First, there’s the lifetime cost-per-mile to own and operate it. I think this is a beautiful graph.

Lifetime expense is $0.29 per mile. That includes everything: payments, gas, insurance, maintenance, repairs, and etcetera.

(I initially had a three year lease for $8,000. The spike in 2001 is when I …

This overlaps with the one year stats posted back in July 2007, but I’d like to switch to calendar year accounting, so there you go.

There are some numbers from last year that can serve as the 2006 traffic stats, although they include some traffic from January 2007 since I generated them for the six month anniversary of the site. If you think the 2007 numbers are humble, check out 2006. :-)

Once again, these statistics are provided by Google Analytics.

Visitors

Daily:

On the vertical axis, the middle bar is 500 visitors and the top is 1,000. The jump in February is thanks to Google searches for my “how to” articles about encryption and VNC, and increased image search hits.

Totals:

164,504Visits
145,760Absolute Unique Visitors
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On 19 July 2006, I posted my first real entry on this blog, introducing ‘Moving to Freedom’ BETA. (Previous to that there were a few fake test posts, now deleted, some of which still seem to be echoing around in Google, judging by complaints of missing pages I sometimes see in Webmaster Tools.)

I had some idea of what I wanted to do with the site, but was uncertain how I’d go about it or if I could really sustain this thing. I have to say I’m not totally ashamed of that first post nor of my efforts this past year. I think I can do a lot better, but I’m happy with how things have gone and enjoy writing here. Thanks to all of you for reading and emailing …

“Moving to Freedom” is six months old! I haven’t made a huge amount of progress on my goal of moving to free software, but this blog has definitely helped keep my mind on it, and I think I’m going to make it eventually.

The writing of the blog takes a lot of time that could be spent on *doing* free software, but I like it. I’ve gone from craving thousands of readers and attention to just enjoying keeping this thing for what it is: a public journal of my thoughts and efforts on free software and related topics. And sometimes un-related topics.

So, thank you, to all my loyal readers. I hope to still be here in another six months. Let’s take a look at some visitor numbers from the first half year and …

Hello, again. I feel like I’ve been neglecting you. It’s not from a lack of desire to post here, but lack of time. It seems like there is never enough time, and what time there is, I’m quite effective at whiling away. And then as more time passes, I feel like I need to post something substantive and meaty. But if you’ve been reading movingtofreedom.org, you probably know that I’m not really about deep thoughts. I’m more of a used-to-wanna-be intellectual. I think I’m still kind of a wanna-be, but I’m working on simply being who I am. So here is a post about this and that to keep things going.

You’re in for an exciting treat: Results from Google Analytics! Wow! These are results for visits from August 5 (when I first started using GA) to August 24 (when I meant to post this).

(*See note about Google Analytics and privacy.)

Visitors From Around The World

These first three maps show where everyone is coming from. This has been the best part for me — I’m thrilled to see people stopping by from all over the world. I hope you find something that makes you want to visit again or even regularly.

Some of the dots represent scum-of-the-earth spammers. I’ve had 9 spam comments so far that have all been caught by Akismet. So I …