Comments on: Brothers-Brick.com turns three [Editorial]

By: Master X

Master X — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:09:11 +0000

Dont forget you Turkey reader! Me! I have been following your blog for about 2 months, and I love it! Keep On going TBB!

By: wunztwice

wunztwice — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:08:59 +0000

^
Ah, I somehow missed that one…my apologies, Tim.

[still seems a tad funny to me at any rate ; ) ]

By: gambort

gambort — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:44:28 +0000

^ earlier in the thread gambort says:

“^^ There’s the domain birthday and the blog birthday. Twice yearly roundups.”

By: wunztwice

wunztwice — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:17:46 +0000

Huh, seems like the site already turned three once…

By: gambort

gambort — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:53:34 +0000

^ I know you all speak some level of English and the languages are also conveniently similar in the written form but still… that’s a lot of readers. I think that the Netherlands probably has the highest percentage of AFOLs of any country given the size of the two AFOL groups there.

By: Melfice

Melfice — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:29:20 +0000

“[...]but special congratulations has to go to the Netherlands who manage to beat everyone but the US and Canada while not actually speaking English natively.”

Not natively, but English is a mandatory language class every High School student has to follow. Not everybody will be equally good at it, but most of “us” speak at least enough to direct an Englishman to a Tourist Information Centre, or such.

Anyway, happy birthday!
And I am still surprised Nuklearpower.com is on your referral list.

By: attila

attila — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:12:31 +0000

Love this site I originally found you guys through a Apocafest search and I’ve checked in ever day since ^__^

By: Ochre Jelly

Ochre Jelly — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:54:09 +0000

Hey Andrew, do the stats come in a form that can be sliced-and-diced? Imagine a heat map breaking hits down by post theme versus time of day (“90% of castle fans visit at 3am!”). I’m thinking text file or Excel file or something like that. My company loves to blog about visualizations of fun data sets.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:42:10 +0000

HBD BB

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:56:39 +0000

^ The Archives heading over on the right has those numbers. ;-)

By: Jai

Jai — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:48:58 +0000

Out of curiosity — and to better compare/contrast the amount of comments left each year — how many blog entires were posted this year, as opposed to last year?

By: gambort

gambort — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:37:21 +0000

^ technically it’s per kilocapita

By: Thanel

Thanel — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:21:01 +0000

^ Ah, the joy of thinking after typing. Per capita is exactly what the second number is. Doh!

By: Thanel

Thanel — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:18:30 +0000

Now I’m all curious about per capita visits by country.

By: gambort

gambort — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:18:23 +0000

Well I just got really curious and nerdy so…

And here are the top 10 countries by visits.

US 2.34M 7.70
UK 318K 5.18
Canada 274K 8.23
Germany 142K 1.73
Australia 137K 6.40
Netherlands 124K 7.56
France 111K 1.79
Poland 55.9K 1.47
Italy 55.5K 0.927
Japan 54.0K 0.423

The second number is visits per 1000 people. The Canadians are our most diligent readers but special congratulations has to go to the Netherlands who manage to beat everyone but the US and Canada while not actually speaking English natively.