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We all love Linux but we must accept the truth going forward. Linux has miniscule usage among ordinary users.

Have a look at the web stats for one of my sites here.

The number of users running linux is less than 1%.

My personal blog, with average of about 1k unique visits per day, currently gets around 32% firefox users. Mind you, it is actually more of a lifestyle and food blog, nothing techy.

Most of my readers are from Malaysia though. You can check the broswer share here

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s24secmaniac&r =36

Get linked to on slashdot!

(That is a graph of that blog's traffic)

For some sites this is a bubble.

TechCrunch makes $60,000 a month for just 2.5 Million page views. Thats $24 CPM ($ per 1000 page views), or 2.4 cents every time a page is rendered. This bubble will burst.

The average joe is lucky to get $2 CPM. Which I think is much more reasonable.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2 _archive/2006/09/01/8384325/
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s26techcrunch& r=33

Actually there used to be a lot more there until I too moved to my own server for my new blog. To generate more PV's over there, I redirect the video viewers.

Here is my SiteMeter account for that page. 7m PV's.

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm7jlgolson&r= 0

Content wise, it was very similar to what I have here: http://thestormtrack.com/archives/2004/12/tsunami_ videos.html

While I am sure "bandwidth-wise" I would have been fine (except for the actual video which used up over a petabyte of BW), would their basic account have been able to handle 1m PV's a day for a week straight? I doubt it, since so many pages go down when merely Slashdotted which sends a significant amount of traffic, but nothing like what I got.

I'm quite close on my blog at 80% when you combine XP and 2003.

See stats here.

From 1000 regular visitors a day to 120000 from slashhot. I bet he made LOTs of money today. Where do I sign up to be slashdotted? http://www.sitemeter.com/default.asp?action=stats& site=sm1problogger&report=5

Wait a second... his site gets a piddling 3000 page views a day (/. gave it that many in the last hour, in the middle of the night!), and he claims to be making big bucks?

WTF?

Technorati has 16 links in the last three days (many of them this current story), which is nice, but not exactly Boingboing, is it? Alexa has it at a nice, but not spectacular, rank of 32,764 (compare to TalkingPointsMemo's rank of 19,893 or Juan Cole's 19,776), and it barely shows up on Daypop. I don't see where the money comes from with those types of numbers.

-...but that's entirely irrelevant. 90% of Canadians being saturated with the info in headline snippet form (the world without the gag order) is vastly different than 10% of Canadians (and this is being incredibly optimistic) going out and searching out a blog and reading the information.

The guy had almost half a million viewers yesterday, almost all from Canada, and it's going to spread,

We'll be at the 10% mark in a few days, between people going to the site, and people emailing cut-n-paste jobs to everyone they know.

What are people pissed about? This fantasy that this is all a big cover up is absolutely bizarro-land.

People are pissed that $250,000,000.00 was wasted, and $100,000,000.00 went in politically corrupt payments. Multiply by 10 to get an equivalent US figure.

how much of Canada's population would be aware of this information presented on the nightly CTV/CBC news and across Canadian newspapers. A huge amount.

Now how many are going to go searching for some lame American blog to read this info? Hardly anyone

Check out http://www.sitemeter.com/default.asp?action=stats& site=s16captainsquarters&report=15 and you'll see the last ten visitors - I'm showing the first 9 are Canadian.

1. sympatico.ca
2. cgocable.net
3. sympatico.ca
4. shawcable.net
5. telus.net
6. videotron.ca
7. vif.net
8. cgocable.net
9. shawcable.net

So, still want to claim that people are too lazy to search for the story? People are PISSED!

ohh man... http://www.sitemeter.com/default.asp?action=stats& site=s18cooking4engineers&report=5

Wow that looks good. I'd really enjoy watching my virtual traffic flow (well, maybe for about a half hour), but I'd rather not pay for this. I guess it tracks using javascript or hidden images or something, sending the data on referals etc. to a central server (like SiteMeter), then I guess that server sends UDP packets to the client to direct vehicles and people in the virtual world. It would actually be quite simple to do this kind of thing on ones own (well, at least to create the server, the client would need some more work). It's such a shame the prices are quite insane (I mean, an unplayable SC3000 for ~$40/month dependent on # visitors, no thank you). Hope to see a free alternative soon, I might even work on it :)

Absolutely great idea, though. More of this innovation would be appreciated.

See slashdot effect in action here and here

This is my favorite part of the whole ECCp-109 site.

Hmm, I wonder what day the story was posted....

Jouster

I love seeing graphs of the slashdot effect happening. :P

1. Opera identifies it self (in the user agent string) as IE by default.
2. several other browers have agent strings that can be set by the user
3. some web couters do not seem to be cross platform. I have found at least one site using sitemeter do not seem to count my vists when I use Mozilla.

As the parent said you should look at it in terms of gaining additional customers. Also, increasing your customer base by 5% would usually make a bigger difference to your profits, possibly a lot more if you are highly operationally geared (i.e. have high fixed costs).

There are lots of decent free or nearly free counters out there that provide usage info. Some are more complete than others, some require scripts and some don't. I use Sitemeter and they do pretty well. Google on "web counters" or "free page counter" or something. It's not everything you could get from scanning full logs, but it's pretty good, and some give some decent statistical analysis.

OK, I'll bite; pennance for a smartass comment elsewhere on this story...

I pay for my internet connection. I pay for email I get. When I get mail I didn't ask for, don't want, advertising a product I have no interest in, that I paid to recieve, it ticks me off. Granted, it's not that big an expense for most, but the principle is sound. Hosting an anti-spam system along with this article isn't hypocritical; as others have pointed out the difference is whether you go to it, or it comes to you.

Anyway, what would the response be if Mr. Vixie was to exert influence on the editors of MenWeb in regard to this article? When Vixie Enterprises is presumably a paid or at least compensated host for them? If my ISP wanted me to take down a new dirty jokes collection because, for example, they also hosted several Puritan web sites; not only would I quickly find another ISP but they'd be reviled for censoring content. (assuming no prior content restrictions, as such almost certainly don't apply to MenWeb).

Good eye, though; I read the article earlier and didn't catch the "vix.com" address. Here's another tidbit in return: The slashdot effect may not be as intense as is rumored.