Just like on my other blog, it’s the year end wrapup for all the data. I’m a bit surprised by the numbers I reached here; for only ramping The Brew Site up (as a blog) just over a year ago, these seem to be pretty impressive. On to it!

• Number of blog entries: 222.
• Approximate total number of words: 38,371.
• Average words per blog entry: 172.8.

  Overall, it looks like I wrote nearly as much here as on chuggnutt.com. I was sort of wondering why my output over there had gone down compared to 2004, but now I realize that it didn’t—half the stuff I wrote ended up over here instead!

• Total visitors: 236,445. This is unfiltered, so it includes bots, spiders, RSS readers, etc.
• Average visitors per day: 647.
• Total real visitors (approximate): 119,300. This is the actual number, with most of the bots and such filtered out.
• Average real visitors per day: 326
• The most active month was October, and the two big traffic spikes account for that: 3,810 visitors on October 12 and 3,795 visitors on October 13. These hits were to the post Nicotine beer which got picked up big on the search engines.
• Ten most popular blog entries:
  1. Nicotine beer: 7,774
  2. Molson Kick: 6,817
  3. Samuel Adams Utopias: 2,247
  4. Samuel Adams Triple Bock: 1,622
  5. Gluten Free Beer: 1,387
  6. Google results for Molson Kick…: 1,312
  7. More on gluten free beer: 1,241
  8. Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale: 1,024
  9. Best beers, according to RateBeer: 933
  10. Homebrewing in Get Fuzzy: 780
• Total number of comments (not counting spam): 182
• Most popular searches on this site:
  • pumpkin: 240
  • pumpkin ale recipe: 10
  • labatt shock [variants]: 40
  • sam adams: 13
  • gluten free: 13
  • brew 102 [variants]: 9
  • oldenburg [variant]: 7
  • north carolina: 7
  • molson kick: 6
• Ten most popular search engine searches landing here:
  1. nicotine beer: 5,649
  2. molson kick: 3,486
  3. samichlaus: 397
  4. samuel adams utopias: 384
  5. pumpkin ale recipe: 382
  6. sam adams utopias: 338
  7. beer names: 323
  8. gluten free beer: 319
  9. pumpkin beer: 270
  10. sam adams triple bock: 270
• Top five search engines:
  1. Google: 24,584
  2. MSN: 7,512
  3. Yahoo: 3,490
  4. AOL Search: 321
  5. Netscape: 126
• Here’s the approximate breakdown of browsers and agents, gleaned from the full numbers:
  • Internet Explorer: 53% of all traffic
  • Mozilla/Netscape browsers (Firefox mostly, I think): 17.7%
  • Opera: 0.9%
  • RSS readers/agents: 5.4%
  • Bots/search engine crawlers: 15%
  • Other stuff (random bots, feed readers, crawlers, obscure browsers): 8%