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Happy anniversary, regua.biz

I’ve recently realised that 14th March, the day regua.biz was created, can’t actually be called “birthday” of the site, as it wasn’t born in the strict sense of this word. I’ve decided to call it “anniversary”. And so, let’s celebrate the 2nd anniversary of regua.biz’s creation! The only reason the site is still going is you, the readers. I’d like to thank all of you for your support and/or criticism, I hope you’ll still be enjoying regua.biz during the 3rd year it’s been online.

Many (seriously, many) things have changed over the last year. And I don’t mean the look or functionality of the site; I’m talking about the user preferences (note: yeah, this will be another statistic-based entry. If you don’t enjoy reading these, just skip it. Actual articles for regua.biz are on the way!).

Less than 30% of the site visitors were located in Poland. That’s quite a huge change, considering that last year it was over 95 per cent… Other countries that regua.biz has been viewed from include the United States (21%), United Kingdom (5%) and Germany (4%). The smallest number of visitors (strictly speaking, one guest) came from countries like Sudan, Mozambique, Kyrgyzstan, Antigua and Barbuda, Qatar and Barbados. Cheers to all Qatar readers!

The percentage of users browsing the Web with Firefox has slightly increased compared to the 2007 results. 65% of visitors use Mozilla’s browser, 23% have Internet Explorer, 6% use Opera and 4% are browsing with Safari. Surprisingly, I’ve got some views with the PlayStation 3’s browser - 0.06% to be exact - as well as iPhone (0.03%) and Wii (0.01%).

82% of the visitors use Microsoft Windows (84% of them is XP, 11% Vista), 11% have Mac OS and only 8% of the viewers use Linux. This is not surprising - Windows is still the most popular operating system, and as long as software developers don’t realise that there actually are other OS to develop applications for, this won’t change.

As to screen resolutions, 32% are 1024×768, 24% - 1280×1024. 1280×800 got over 17%, and 1680×1050 - less than 10%. I’m really glad to see 800×600 at 1.26%, that means that I can actually make new layouts a little bit wider without users complaining.

The top traffic source for regua.biz this year is… WordPress.org (thanks to ACP)! Far behind the leader there’s Google with 17% (and, strangely, Google.com with 5% - I’m wondering why Google Analytics doesn’t add them up).

The most popular keywords that brought people to the site were: regua (4.74%), taking the top place just as last year, “Cyanide and Happiness” with 3.49%, and many variations of phrases like “Ajax comments”, “Ajax WordPress” and “comment posting”, etc. I am really curious whether the people who google “regua” are actually trying to find me or they are people trying to plan their holidays in Portugal.

Now, continuing the tradition I’ve started a year ago, let’s get to the 14 March facts! (I’m pretty sure I’ll run out of these in a year or two, so if you know something interesting that happened exactly on 14/03, please let me know).

• On March 14th, Second Equirria were held in the ancient Rome.
• On 14 March 1804, Johann Strauß, Sr., the composer, was born.
• On 14 March 1889, Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented his Zeppelin (“navigable balloon”).
• By 14 March 1939 German troops had fully occupied the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
• 14/03/1994 is the release date of Linux kernel version 1.0.0.
• 14 March 2005 is the date of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.
• On 14 March 2008 (yeah, that’s today) Xbox 360’s price was officially lowered by €50 in all European countries. Theoretically, at least.

Again, thanks to all of you for letting me keep the site running. May the Force be with you, As-Salāmu `Alaykum, and happy Easter everyone.