annual report to our imaginary shareholders

well folks, as best i can tell, today september 2nd marks the nonist’s second birthday (though the site, as you see it now, has actually only existed for 11 months.) i’d like to say that two years of blogging has taught me a lot about myself, that it has provided valuable lessons about the world, that its provided guidance to the this wobbly rocket which is my life as it skids and teeters through that foggy sky which is my future… but i’d be pretty much lying. it has been fun though. to mark the occasion of this, our official entrance into the terrible two’s, i thought i’d pull back the curtain a bit for all you members and readers who might either be curious about the site or are suckers for lists and figures.

first off i’ll explain that when the site first started it was actually two sites. one called the nonist: zeitgeist, the other called the nonist: philology. they looked like this- (click for a closer look)



not much to look at i suppose but it was my first go at web design and i actually rather liked the randomized “portrait” + “portrait” thingy in the zeitgeist header. always made for an interesting combo. anyhow the reason i mention this seemingly prehistoric part of the nonist’s past is that most of the stats i’m about to divulge in fact only cover the 11 months since our re-launch. the only stats which include the old sites are as follows:

members: 110

total weblog entries: 1,357

total comments: 1,268

everything which follows is specific to the newer and much improved nonist 2.0 you are all familiar with:

Total Sessions: 450,207.00

Total Pageviews: 2,022,649.00

Total Hits: 7,963,146.00

Average Sessions Per Day: 1,230.07

Average Pageviews Per Day: 5,526.36

Average Hits Per Day: 21,757.23

Average Length of Session: 00:06:38

Visiting Countries: 143

Top Viewing Methods:

1) internet explorer
2) firefox
3) safari
4) bloglines
5) mozilla
6) netnewswire
7) opera
8) netscape
9) applesyndication
10) rssbandit

 

top visitor platforms:

1) widows
2) mac
3) linux
4) freebsd
5) sunos
6) webtv
etc

 

top downloads:

1) blog depression pamphlet: 7,192 downloads

2) nonist old testament activity book: 319 downloads

3) relative tie for all “soundtrack” mp3’s

 

most viewed posts of the year:

1) a nonist public service pamphlet
2) making love in 1976
3) announcing the first nonist activity book
4) mysterious, plentiful, and space faring: tardigrades
5) lower east side stickers 92-95
6) creative commies
7) an ode to naked type
8) doing our part for darwin day
9) casual numismatics
10) beauty amidst the rubble

(the lesson here is the oldest in the book. there is just no telling what people will respond to.)

so from a statistics standpoint that about wraps up what i can figure out.

from a personal standpoint i’ll say that i’m happy to have drawn in or otherwise connected with all the cool folks i have- from the diehards who post goodies for us, to the peeps who stop by occasionally to comment, to the fellow bloggers. your involvement has made the first two years fun. i hope to stay alert, energetic, and just masochistic enough to continue for another two years at least.

lastly while gathering this info it dawned on me that save for the few members here who know me personally, in the meat realms, the only image anyone has had to connect to me has been that tiny gravatar of snowflake the albino gorilla. well, after some consideration i’ve decided to reveal myself to you all if only to give you a mug to connect with the snide posts and philosophical ramblings in the dark-

first- photo with wax lips



and second- photo wearing a pillow-hat
(the pillow-hat being the official head gear of the finest,
aristocratic, near-royal in stature, blogger extraordinaire.
it is so the world over! or in my household at least.)



yikes! snowflake the albino gorilla is a lot easier on the eyes, i know.

so that’s it.
2 years of the nonist,
some wax lips,
and a pillow hat.
waddaya want for nuthin?
now help me blow out that candle.

posted by jmorrison on 09/02 | announcements | | send entry