Michael Carøe Andersen

Tag: statistics

  • Happy B-day to Blogging.Gelle.dk

    24th of April 2005 – 3 years ago – I started blogging here. Back then I started blogging and did it in Danish because I was going to do an internship in US for one year and wanted an easy way to keep a travel journey and keep friends and family updated. About August 2006 I switched to English since I was moving back to Denmark and I decided to leave it at that. Check the archive if you want to see previous posts.

    Blogging Gelle stats

    I have made 207 posts so thats 1.3 post per week. My stats only go back to 15th November 2005 but since then the site has had 29,323 visits. 10,810 of these were on the post about running a company using free office products online. It ended up on the frontpage of digg.com and sent my server to its knees. Apart from that spike I average about 20-30 visits per day – which I am very satisfied with :)

    Photo-op

    I started using Flickr at the same time. Above is the first picture there which is from my graduation from Aalborg University June 2005. Since then I have uploaded 5,226 pictures or 33.5 picture per week. My most viewed picture on Flickr is the guy with the grillz. My most interestingnessed picture is a panorama of the Big House in Ann Arbor.

    Panorama shot Michigan Stadium
    (check out the original)

    Update 29th: Ulrik just pointed me towards this nifty timeline tool :)


  • Prague beer prices

    Working in Prague

    The good guys of the Prague search site Nelso has made an invaluable resource for people on the hunt cheap beer in Prague. The beer price heatmap shows the prices on beer at more than 250 bars in Prague. As I understand the underlying technology they have used a meteorological predictions based on the points to create the map – very cool. I guess that is also why all of Letna Park is expensive because of the 90czk beer at Hanavsky pavilion.

    Prague Cheap Beer Map: Jedno pivo prosim!

    By the way – the sweaty beer on the picture is a 0,5L Staropramen at 59czk from Cafe Savoy which puts it in the red.

    There is also a Danish edition for Øl i Prag.


  • Got Dugg

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    My website went on the belly yesterday evening because my latest post got picked up on Digg. Before my site went offline I got around 2000 hits in a few hours. Not a tremendous amount of traffic but enough to make my host DHT cough. I tried to install a wp-cache plugin but coundnt get it to work.

    What I did
    On Sunday Alaxander of Positive Sharing was speaking at BlogForum2 about how he had gone from 0 to 100.000 readers. Alexanders ideas for generating traffic are compiled at Lars Pinds blog. I had been writting on this post for some time going back and forth whenever something came to mind.
    I rewrote my story a bit making it into 10 pros and cons and added more graphics and then submitted it to reddit. It never seemed to pick up at reddit so I left it and went on to do other stuff. Somebody else picked it up and posted it to Digg and then things went on from there