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500 Roundup: the Statistics

Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 13:07 Written by arifn
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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?

New Tutorial Site: Indonesian Way

Tuesday, 27 January, 2009 20:43 Written by arifn
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While I was being jobless right now, I met some of my old gangs back in highschool. Luckily for me, they were computer-addict, just like me. We (me and Danu) did some chat and agreed to build a tutorial site: for dummies and in Indonesian. At least, this is we could do to contribute in Indonesian education.

The next conference was a mess. You know, when old friends met, they would tell you a lot of untold story, like him now engaged with her or where is he right now, how she is doing now, etc. Need some time to get them to focus about the site. But finally, after some efforts, we could get back to the topic.

We talked about the domain name for our new site. This is the most important and hardest part. It’s about the identation of our site. It should be short, meaningful, catchy, and zero-typo-possibility. Some ideas swinging around. From tutorial12.web.id, belajar.web.id, kuliah.web.id (what?), even x12community (with regards to Mijil, one of the friend involved). But then one word from Sasi silenced the conference. GIMANA. Simple, catchy, questionable, error-free, funky. Next, we agreed to buy “gimana.web.id” domain. Just a moment after the conversation, I registered for gimana.web.id.

One step done, next step: host hunting.