Mining the Data...

I find it interesting that that there are a lot of different data that can be gathered from this blog service about the folks that look at your blog.  Not surprising....I guess if we were trying to make money or sell something from this blog, this type of data would be valuable.  To me it is a curiosity.

So, here are some of the data that I found interesting.

The post with the most views is Stop Me If You've Heard this One. This post had 227 "pageviews".  Not surprising because the lede involved a Catholic gradeschool's boy's soccer team and diseased hookers.

The post with the second amount of "pageviews" is Joey B's with some Homies.  This one was viewed 205 times.

And coming in third for "pageviews" is: Three Glorious Words.  About the Chocolate Factory on "The Hill."  This one had 175 looks.

Other data that I found interesting is that by far the vast majority of our viewers came to us through Facebook.  In fact nearly 3,000 views of our blog were through Facebook.  There were a few general searches through Yahoo and Bing and Google, but the vast majority were through Facebook.

Also, not surprising, is that the vast majority of folks viewed us from the United States.  Somewhat surprising, but maybe not after this past year, is that the second most "pageviews" came from Russia!  We had 24 views from Canada, 19 from the United Kingdom, 10 from Germany, 9 from Costa Rica, 7 from Ireland, 7 from the Northern Mariana Islands, 4 from Switzerland, 6 from Madagascar and 3 from Singapore... and a few from Thailand and Peru.  I can, interestingly enough account for all of these views....but the Russian ones, I can honestly claim that there was no collusion.

3,080 views (that's 60% of all views) came through Chrome web browser, while 1,241 (or 24%) came through mobile sources.

While were on the topic of mobile, 2,199 (43%) of those views were from Android devices, while 1,541 (30%) were from iPhones.  There were a few Windows and even Linux devices mixed in there with others to fill out the rest, but those two were the bulk.

That's the rough breakdown of the Hill of a Year Blog for the past year.