For so long a time I had not entered my blog, I almost forgot its password. At times, I feel I am obligated to put new stuff on for my "visitors"; but realistically, how many hits do my blog pages get? Probably 5 visits per month, and the visitors are all "me". To find out the truth, I signed up for Google Analytics, a power tool for analysing visitors, page hits and all those good stuffs for webmasters. In my opinion, it is too powerful, since there are so many advance features that I don’t even know what they are there for.

Assuming the Google Analytics thing is doing what it is supposed to do, i.e. tracking visitors’ stats, then there are more unexpected visitors than I could ever imagine! I would never expect somebody in Jerusalem would found my blog!!

Here are the stats:

Monitoring period: Aug 1, 2006 - Aug 25, 2006
# of visits: 78
# of pageviews: 160
Most visitors in a day: Aug 13, with 8 visits
# of returning visits: 29 (37%)
Locations of visitors (most to least): HK, Taiwan, Canada, India, China, Malaysia, Israel,  UK, New Zealand

Top 5 visited pages:
1. Links
This is the reality, people visit my site only becasue they need to know what my friends’ websites URL are. That’s like people calling you only to find out so and so’s telephone number. Harsh as it is, I can live with it.

2. Blog entry: 剌激2005-06
Obviously this is where the Jerusalem visitor came from (and all the others like New Zealand, UK and Taiwan). I believed they landed up on my page simply because they are searching for the lyrics of the song 剌激2005 or the artist 趙英俊, and this is probably the only reason why I have more than 20 visitors in a month!

3. Home
Come on, if people doesn’t even read the home page, that’s probably no point in running this blog anymore.

4. Category: Entertainment
Bored surfers expecting to find some fun here, just because they see the word "entertainment"? They need to get a life.

5. Category: Ick’s pick
Mystery and curiosity works. Just because people don’t exactly know what the link is leading them to, or especially if you don’t want them to know right away, they will want to find out.

Interesting? Ya.. it is interesting to see 78 people in August visited an essential dead blog that has no update whatsoever. Well, at least, no updates until today. And to those visitors who returns, a big thanks to you.

Am I obligated?