Just like last year, I’m doing a stats and data wrap-up for the site. I suppose this is mostly interesting only to me, but I like giving an idea of what the site has been doing over the past year.

• Number of blog entries: 226 (Last year: 222)
• Approximate total number of words written: 49,059 (Last year: 38,371)
• Average words per entry: 217.1 (Last year: 172.8)
• Total visitors (including all the bots, crawlers, RSS readers, and junk): 661,777 (Last year: 236,445)
• Average visitors per day: 1,813 (Last year: 647)
• Total real visitors (approximate): 347,972 (Last year: 119,300)
• Average real visitors per day: 953 (Last year: 326)
• The most active months were December and October, with 80,434 hits and 77,916 visitors, respectively.
• Ten most popular blog entries:
  1. Beer Tycoon: 3,988
  2. A-B’s Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale: 2,601
  3. The Beer Hacker: Best of the cheap beers?: 2,354
  4. Buying beer online: 2,163
  5. Heineken Premium Light: 1,936
  6. The Heineken Premium Light press release: 1,736
  7. Bend Brewing Company’s Poor Richard’s Ale: 1,707
  8. Beer ice cream: 1,685
  9. 50 beers to drink before you die, Part 1: 1,684
  10. Pumpkin beer ruminations: 1,578
• Total number of non-spam comments: 208 (Last year: 182)
• Ten most popular search engine queries landing here:
  1. beer tycoon: 2,062
  2. pumpkin ale recipe: 1,191
  3. sam adams utopias: 1,179
  4. valentines ideas: 948
  5. sam adams triple bock: 762
  6. oktoberfest 2006: 757
  7. samuel adams utopias: 650
  8. pumpkin ale: 635
  9. pumpkin beer: 621
  10. simcoe hops: 579
• Top five search engines:
  1. Google: 47,721
  2. Yahoo: 4,461
  3. MSN: 1,882
  4. AOL Search: 299
  5. AskJeeves: 244
• Approximate breakdown of browsers and agents of visitor traffic:
  • Internet Explorer: 42.99%
  • Mozilla/Firefox: 28.47%
  • Opera: 0.83%
  • RSS readers/agents: 13.46%
  • Other stuff: 14.25%
• Total number of bot/crawler hits: 250,063