Ten-Thousand-Freaking-Hits!

Well it looks like, in just under a year, Dude Meister Blogs reached 10,000 views. And boy am I proud! On the 9th of January, I had no idea that I'd be starting out a blog that would reach such value (at least to me, sentimentally). And while there are hundreds of sites, doing what I do, that get that in mere hours, I'm still overwhelmingly happy with how far I've come. So thanks to those who've clicked on the countless, cheesy links I throw on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks to those who've given me even the slightest of publicity (HUSBANDS! and JANE ESPENSON!). Thanks to all those rather disturbed individuals who've been led to my site after Googling camel penis 88 times. Thanks to the random people that stumbled upon this by accident, and either fallen in love or left immediately (the latter seems more likely). However you've found yourself here, I am grateful for it. And thus, I shall endeavour to continue, finding all new and awesome ways to write stuff and have it read, seen, glanced, or glimpsed by you.

Thanks everyone.

Arnold Thornton-Rice

And although we didn't manage to get a 10,000 hit screen-shot, this 10,001 still gives some credit, courtesy of Nick Townsend, who is believed to be the 10,000 hitter at 19:44 GMT. Or as he's better known (Read: forced this upon me.) "That really awesome dude, and I wouldn't be here without hit" - His exact words (mistake included), not mine. 

Happy 100th Post!

Yes, after 8 months of on/off blogging, we've arrived here at the 100th post. 99 blogs have been leading up to this one moment, the moment where I shall... give you some stats and stuff? Sorry, that's all I've got, so here's Dude Meister Blogs: By The Numbers:

Since January 9th 2011, DMb has had 4996 individual views (as of this moment of writing); that's over 1000 more people that inhabit the Falkland Islands.

This List shows the top ten countries that have viewed the site (with map!):

United Kingdom 3,224 United States 846 Australia 96 Lithuania 79 Spain 63 Canada 59 Germany 52 India 31 Singapore 21 Mexico 18

Neat graph of browsers used:
(Google Chrome Forever!)

Pageviews by Browsers

Chrome 1,288 (25%) Internet Explorer 1,223 (24%) Firefox 1,000 (20%) Safari 885 (17%) Mobile 448 (9%) Mobile Safari 73 (1%) Opera 41 (<1%) (FlipboardProxy 8 (<1%) App 5 (<1%) RockMelt 4 (<1%)

And operating systems:

Pageviews by Operating Systems

Windows 3,111 (62%) iPod 695 (14%) Macintosh 312 (6%) iPhone 299 (6%) Other Unix 199 (4%) Linux 183 (3%) Android 83 (1%) iPad 51 (1%) BlackBerry 10 (<1%) PLAYSTATION 3 3 (<1%)

The Highest Viewed Posts of All Time:

Trailer Tuesday: The Last Airbender: The Legend of...

26 Jul 2011 195 Pageviews

Kapow! Comic-Con: The Full Report

11 Apr 2011, 2 comments 127 Pageviews

What The Fridge?!: Week One

2 Jun 2011 115 Pageviews

The Morocco Trip: Part 4

7 Jul 2011 109 Pageviews

RE:View: Plague

13 Apr 2011 74 Pageviews

Trailer Tuesday: Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon

3 May 2011 67 Pageviews

Charlie Sheen: An Honorary Douche

9 Mar 2011, 1 comment 63 Pageviews

Cowardly

9 Jul 2011, 1 comment 58 Pageviews

The Morocco Trip: Part 1

4 Jul 2011 53 Pageviews

Trailer Tuesday: The Dark Knight Rises

19 Jul 2011 52 Pageviews

That list really goes to show how far social networking can get you, with the majority being posts that I metaphorically "pimped" on media sites like Twitter and YouTube, not to mention how I link all of them to my Facebook. Which means I should be doing a lot more of it, so here's Twitter: @DMeisterTweets and I look forward to your follow! Also, YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/DudeMeisterVlogs


Fun (and slightly worrying) Fact: 7 people have searched the words "camel penis" and wound up on here... My fan base, everybody!


And finally here's a nice graph charting the ups and downs of the last 8 months:

So that's that. Stats.


Anyway, I suppose a 100th Post Party is a good time to thank all you lovely readers and viewers that have kept me going up until this point. Without you, I might have quit at post #3! So cheers everyone, and here's to the (hopefully more interesting and fruitful) future! *Blows party poppers... alone*


ATR
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