Eh, 35% of Statistics are Made Up Out of Thin Air

Quinn may not be enjoying World Statistics Day, but it looks like her employees are having an even worse day. I guess Quinn does have a quite a bit of Helen in her, both in the sense of taking no nonsense from anyone and looking good in a pantsuit.

If any of Jane's family members are around to hear about it, today is also National Lane Day! Apparently the name could mean anything from a literal lane to wool to a warrior descendant, but in that family it really just means "absent."

I don't know about warriors, but Trent has a high probability of being descended from sloths. Fortunately, as today is International Sloth Day, he's in good company!

Fandom News!

• Vote in the Celebrity Deathmatch polls: The Three Stooges vs. Ed, Edd n Eddy and Battle of the Cartoon Goth Chicks.


• What are your thoughts on Daria as a stand-up comedian?


• Discuss the Israel-Hamas War.


• R.I.P., Burt Young.

More Stats: Where the Fans Really Are

Some readers are aware that I have an Internet site used for storing images, fanfiction, sound files, and occasionally webpages. Nearly everything on the "TAG.com" site (www.theangstguy.com, which has no front page) is related to Daria. Using a nifty program called Awstats, I can find out a lot about who clicks into TAG.com, such as where they are clicking in from. The table showing the national origin of TAG.com visitors for the year 2009 (to date) is just above. Click on it for the full-size image. For the sake of conversation, let's take a look at it for a few moments.

It is no surprise that most of those who view or listen to something from TAG.com are from the U.S.A. However, if you thought the next few slots would be filled with nations once a part of the British Empire, you are wrong. Enormous numbers of visitors come from Russia and China. Canada, Australia, and Great Britain are next, to be sure, but lo! there's the rest of Europe, Mexico, and Argentina. I've never seen numbers like these before. The worldwide spread of Daria fandom has caught me off-guard as well.

Thoughts? Discussion? Comments from those in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere?

I'll have more statistics later. Just wanted to get some chitchat started about where the Daria fans really are, and what they really like.

Fakz & Figgurz 2 Maek U Happi

One thing I haven't done in a while is review some of the background facts and figures about this blog. Let's see what we've got.

Viewing: First, based on some testing I did, this blog appears to look spot on perfect with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, and Apple Safari 4.0. For some reason there are more indents with IE8, but it all comes out nicely. Opera 10.0 is a little worse but still acceptable. The images degrade for some reason as you switch pages, and the Followers section won't show up.

Visitors: At the moment, 118,603 total hits have been recorded for the site. An average of 131 unique visitors drop by every day so far in October, with 154 per day average throughout September. The blog gets hit about 191 times per day, so some visitors (particularly me, checking up on things) drop in more than once.

This means this blog keeps 130-150 people entertained every day. Not bad at all. We don't have the numbers that Harry Potter fandom has, but we do fine. Only 17 followers, though, so just over a tenth of all visitors can or want to get alerts for updates. Anyone else want to join the followers here? Come on in.

Nations: The country of origin of most visitors is not known. Of those that are known, the U.S.A. accounts for most (about 150 people at the moment), with less than a tenth as many each coming from Canada, France, Great Britain, and other places.

Linkage: Over 60% apparently have this site bookmarked and link directly to it. Links from DariaWiki, Outpost Daria, and PPMB account for less than 10% each, with the rest apparently coming straight from some Google search.

Browsers: About 60% of you use Firefox, 6.5% use IE, 4.6% use Safari, and almost 30% cannot be classified by browser, so who knows what you're using.

Monitor Size: I wasn't aware that the Toolbar Counter checked out your screen size. Lessee...

Unknown	444
1024x768	165
1280x1024	87
800x600	33
1152x864	29

For whatever that was worth. That's for October so far.

Moar l8r.

Checking Up on the Blog Viewers

The company providing the little free stat counter at the bottom of this page offers a few statistics on what sorts of visits have been made here. It doesn't tell who dropped by, but I do know that this blog has been getting about 70 visits a day since December 12th, and an average of 42 different visitors per day. Most of the referrals come from links on DariaWiki's front page, PPMB, and SFMB. The majority of known visitors are American, with a smattering of Canadian, British, and Argentinian folks as well; however, a large number of visitors cannot be distinguished by country, so all the Australians are probably in that group. About 10-15% of all visits per day are probably from me, adding entries and checking up on Comments.

Now if I could only figure out how to use this information. . . . eh, I'm not selling anything, so it doesn't matter. Drop in anytime!