Blog tech news
Aug 27, 2006 ~ filed under: Blog & English ~ 0 comments »Hi,
this posting will be a (long) report on new, changed and removed blog-things and some blog statistic results. It’s just a warning, if you thought I’ll post the next recipe, hehe.
(for my newsletter recipients: I test the text version this time and hope it works)
1) For those (only a few people as I saw) who subscibe via rss feed to my blog, the feedburner address changed, so please check the new one.
2) I worked (hard *gg*) on the performance of my blog because I saw in my blog-statistics, that most of my readers surf with modem (I’m really surprised!). Therefore I tried to make my blog load faster. Now it comes the part for puter-nerds: I could minimize the http requests on the start/home page from 80 to 16 (at its best) and the speed for 56k modem from almost a minute for loading my site to 21 secs (still too much, I know).
I’m a stats fan and have 4 statistic tools running in the background (google analytics *new*, sitemeter *since blog exists*, chcounter *since march 2006, statcounter *new*) what is way too much and very bad for the performance, I know.
I often read online that google-anal. (sorry for the bad abbreviation, haha) causes a bad performance on blogs/websites; I’m testing it at the moment to see if it’s worth it.
I compare all results for a while to see which tool I like the best. Until then, my blog may load a little bit loooonger…sorry for that. I hope I can decide asap which one will stay.
3) I found out that the weather display tool, that I had in the left sidebar was sucking too much of the performance, so I kicked it out 
I think, if you want to know my actual weather, there are many weather sites online to check. It was a nice gimmick, but often the reason for looong page load.
4) Yupp, what some of my visitors liked, the little flags in the left sidebar, the neoworx visitor counter, is also not a part of my blog anymore (although I paid for this tool til november this year). Too often I had problems with loading the script and it was more for the visual effect than for a reliable counter statistic. Dismissed!
5) New: you can click on the top picture with the blog’s name (the header); it links you now back to the home page from everywhere in the blog.
6) New: the header photo also is new, it is from the vacation in Croatia when we were sailing.
7) New: the calender which shows the dates with (new) posts in thick pink and today’s date in a box. The “last posts” section and all older posts are in the “archive”. You find it now under the header picture in the horizontal navigation under “Archives“.
New: the newsletter function. You can find the box to subscribe by email to my blog in the left sidebar. You’ll get an email when I made a new post. You can always unsubscribe.
9) New: after each post you have now related posts showing you the (hopefully) similar content.
For those who are a tech and stats freak, like me, I’ll post some of my stats from March until August 2006 here.
The following stats are the summaries from the last 6 months from my ‘chCounter’.
The browsers my visitors used:
As you can see, the IE is still used by most of my visitor, although my site looks better with firefox (my favorite browser so far).
The most frequent countries my visitor come from or surfed from:
A good argument to continue writing in english
The most frequent languages:
Wow, I didn’t expect so many different languages and the amount of Germans is higher than I expected. Hmm…
Most used screen resolution of my visitors:
I use No. 3, the 1400×1050 with my laptop, but as I know from other statistics the 1024×768 is still the most used. I wonder if this ever will change…
This one is weird…my visitors operating systems:
Weird…a question mark on second place…what may be more used than Mac that is not linux or windows…?
In the end my best (funniest) keywords from the last week, that people typed in search engines and they were brought to my blog:
1) “megadreisat” (I wrote a post about the German “who wants to be a millionaire” quiz show and ‘megadreisat’ was one of the possible answers)
2) “lonelyheartsclub” (UK needs love I guess *g* cool, but also sad that I have only two singles in my club yet (this was a hidden request guys))
3) “pharisaer recipe” (this search brought a visitor to my blog three times. I really should publish a recipe pharisaer ;))
4) “anja (…) chocolade” (:) just funny that someone typed this in…)
Ok, enough from my tech-attack. For now, hehe.
Please, if you think my blog could load a little bit faster and you are annoyed of the slow-load, let me know!
And I’m also happy for any tipps concerning my stats tools :P
STEVE, I already wanted to get back to you!! Tomorrow hopefully…
Bye for now.
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