The two are com­pletely unre­lated, don’t worry ;)

The gim­mick?  It is a fish­tank which is USB pow­ered, from ELX.  Yeah.  And you thought the mug warmer was bad.

And the sta­tis­tics?  Well, it’s the end of the first month this web­site has been fully func­tional — so semi-valid num­bers for once ;)

Unique vis­i­tors: 203
Num­ber of vis­its: 366 (1.8 visits/visitor)
Pages: 7183 (19.62 pages/visit)
Hits: 11009 (30.07 hits/visit)

Some­what unsupris­ingly, the day with the high­est num­ber of hits co-incided with the day after Whirlpool heard about iiCom­mu­nity — traf­fic wasn’t sus­tained, though — it dropped down to nor­mal lev­els the day after that.

Hits, by Oper­at­ing Sys­tem that they came from:
Win­dows: 55.2 %
Linux: 42.7 %
Mac­in­tosh: 1.3 %

And by web browser:
Mozilla: 59.8 %
Some Flavour of Inter­net Explorer: 33.4 %
Opera: 2.9 %
and Netscape, com­ing in at a lowly 1.4%.

What other inter­est­ing stats are there?  Umm… Okay.  The day of the high­est band­width usage co-incided with the release of the first draft of my Imag­i­na­tive Com­po­si­tion — hehe, but it wasn’t that huge — chances are it was the pub­lic release of multiple-styles on that same day which was respon­si­ble for drum­ming up the traffic ;)

Ah well.  Next chal­lenge: get some real con­tent, get PageR­ank list­ings, sus­tain hits for the next month!  Hehe.  I have two weeks of hol­i­days left in which to do var­i­ous stuff, so per­haps I’ll squeeze in some cod­ing time for this website.

It’s not hold­ing the same inter­est any­more, though.  I mean… I enjoy it, in the problem-solving sense.  But only when a prob­lem is defined and there are clear expec­ta­tions and out­comes, not when I’m just ran­domly adding fea­tures to my website.

So, to define a need — some kind of file-storage thing!  Because peo­ple ask to see orig­i­nals of var­i­ous doc­u­ments (e.g. that short story “Blurred Real­ity”), and it’s eas­ier to pre­serve for­mat­ting and other such things in PDF’s than it is just copy­ing text into a web­form!  Well, that is one thing I want to work on.

What do other peo­ple think?  What else does this site need?  The doc­u­ment organ­i­sa­tion thing would ess­es­ntially ful­fil the wait­ing “Projects” sec­tions pur­pose, so don’t say that.

I think some­thing to show the most recent com­ments (ala Plat­form 7 front page) would be use­ful, although my design is too nar­row to do that well… per­haps another redesign?

Use the com­ments thing, tell me what sucks most about this site, or is miss­ing, or whatever!

Tags: Internet Explorer, Linux, operating system, web browser, Whirlpool, Windows