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It's me, Arif N. In this blog I'll write about my adventure related to computer, programming, and anything that I found interesting. I wish you a happy reading.. :D

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500 Roundup: the Statistics

Weeks ago, I decided to track the visitor of this site using free services from StatCounter.com. The free services limited to 500 logs only, but it’s fine with me. So, Let’s play statistics this time!

Visitor's country

Visitor's country

First things first, this is the image of the top ten country from where the visitors accessed this blog. The tracker caught more than 50 percent of the visitors came from Indonesia, my country. Maybe half among them were my friends (sometimes I forced them to take a peek at my blog, but it’s legal, right? ^^). Another reasons, I wrote some tutorials using Bahasa Indonesia, so they stumbled in this blog.

The second country goes to United States. That’s what I expected when I was thinking about writing in English. Another abroad country like Poland, Phillippines, Brazil, etc. were some side effects of this cause.

Popular Pages

Popular Pages

Next, this picture showed this blog’s popular pages. I was curious, why the number one page didn’t show up. After I checked the details, the page was CodeIgniter: Removing index.php. In the second position, here it comes the homepage. I promoted my blog a lot at mailing lists, Facebook, and Twitter. I assumed that its visitors came from my never-lasting-promotion-efforts. Four pages (including the number one) among the top ten were a tutorial post. From this I concluded that tutorial posts will attract more visitors.

Entry from Search Engine

Entry from Search Engine

Last but not least, from which search engine my visitors came. From the statistics, most of the visitors used Google search engine, even from various countries. Just about nine percents of them used Yahoo! search to stumbled at this blog. So, I’ll optimized my upcoming post to be indexed by Google.

Well, playing with statistics was fun. But I couldn’t concluded more than that. I’m still learning at this. So, why wouldn’t you give me some words?

Another New Theme..

One of my friends once told me that my previous theme wasn’t good for eyes. For your information, my previous theme, Dust, colored in maroon red. So I decided to change the theme into the universal color: white.

I did some research, founding some examples. And finally, wrote this theme. This time, I called the theme LeBlanc.

As usual, comments are always welcome.

Breadcrumbs and Permalink

A new year was coming! What should I do? :ketawa: just kidding.. So what’s new in this new year?

When I was in college, one of my teacher told me (and the rest of the class) about the importance of usability. In this context, I was talking about web usability. And because of that, I want to add some–I called it–improvement to at least enhance this blog’s usability.

Sometimes, when people browse on some websites, they got lost. They don’t remember where they come from and find it difficult to go back to the page before. Even I don’t think people could get lost in a blog, I added breadcrumb anyway. In this blog, I used plugin called Breadcrumb NavXT. I just configured it so it only appear when the readers opened the complete post pages.

The next one is about permalink. Besides this self-hosted blog, I also wrote posts in Indonesian using WordPress.com services. The difference I rerealized first was about the permalinks. Using wordpress.com, I got the link for my post like these:
http://arifn.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/dua-bulan-kemudian

It’s human readable, right? But when I first used the self-hosted blog, here was the link I got:
http://arifn.web.id/?p=20

Unreadable! But relax, we can configure it on the WordPress Dashboard. It’s on Settings > Permalinks. Here I set it so it will gave me nice and readable permalinks.

Why is it important? The latter was unreadable so people will never remember about your post links. And, I read it from somebooks, the first type was easy to track by search engine’s crawlers and spiders. It will gave more points on search results.

Do you have any enhancement to share?? Feel free to tell me.. :wow: