---
title: >-
  Lies, damn lies, and analytics
date: 2013-08-19 20:29
modified: 2013-08-19 20:29
lang: en
authors: rysiek
tags:
 - ancient
 - meta
 - web-analytics
status: published
pinned: false
---

**Full disclosure: I have finally installed some analytics on this [brag](/en/1).**

Now, now, keep your cool! No need for those pitchforks, please put them down and read on.

 - **no, [I am not and will never be using Google Analytics](http://vimeo.com/3367125)**; for that matter, all content, fonts, CSS, images directly embedded in this site are and shall always be self-hosted locally -- that means no Google/Yahoo/Bing/whatever Webfonts, no external JS tools, no external anything;
 - **no, I am not setting any cookies**; I am tracking visits on the server-side, directly from this brag's [engine](https://nerdmine.hackerspace.pl/projects/private-rysioblog/repository/core); I have no way of tracking returning visits and I do not intend to -- day to day stats and rudimentary geo data are plenty for me;
 - **no, I am not using any JavaScript on this site**, this site is and at least in the foreseeable future will remain JavaScript-free; you can [check the code yourself](https://nerdmine.hackerspace.pl/projects/private-rysioblog/repository).

I am using [Piwik](https://piwik.org/), hosted locally. Works great, it was easy to set-up, and even easier to implement on the site, and has everything I need (and then some).

## Stats

I guess you want to hear some stats, so here they are:

 - I get **~2000** visits and **~7000** pageviews daily; the ***wow*** factor is strong in this one...
 - so far record number of visits and pageviews in a given day: **4412** and **14151**, respectively (a day after [my article](/en/109) [has appeared on Slashdot](http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/07/27/1325235/the-shortest-internet-censorship-debate-ever));
 - **15%** of my visitors use **Linux**, another **34%** -- "other operating systems" (whatever that might be);
 - **Firefox** is the most often used browser with **28%** visitors using it; Chrome is unfortunately close second, with **25%** (seriously, people, use [Chromium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29) instead);
 - interestingly, I get about the same amount of visits/pageviews regardless of time of day...
 - ...which is probably related to the fact that I have had visitors from every continent apart from Antarctica;
 - most of visitors seem to come from the United States, with France second and Poland third; surprisingly, I had **~1200** visits from mainland China, too.

By the way, if anybody is interested in translating some of the articles here to languages not featured yet, please feel free; I am very fortunate to have received [Spanish translations](/es/) from [Carlos](http://azkware.ticoblogger.com/) and [Laura](http://larjona.wordpress.com/) (thank you!), new languages are always welcome!

On with the stats, though! Now the question everybody's been asking -- the most popular bragposts!
 - [*Of malware, hot steam, privacy, using one's brain and paedoparanoia*](/en/24) with **49383** pageviews;
 - the Polish version of [*On sailor's sensitivity, or "the starry heavens above me"*](/en/85)  with **26651** pageviews;
 - [*Automagic re-publishing from Twitter to StatusNet*](/en/75) with **7693** pageviews (I should probably mark that one as obsolete, after recent Twitter API changes...).

I seem to be getting about **120** hits via RSS and **170** via Atom daily. Not sure how many subscribers that boils down to, though.

## What does it all mean?

Bear in mind these are from about a month of gathering. All this will probably change during next months.

Still, the numbers are very encouraging. 2k visits daily? 7k pageviews? Wow. I hoped for a few dozen, maybe. Happy to see my bragging is interesting for you! I'll try to keep up the apparently decent work.