Revelations in the Key of WoW by a Little Blog

On a whim I decided to take a look at who, well not "who" but from where, people are reading this blog of mine.

In the past, it was clear that the only person who ever accessed this blog was probably me.  Since this happens out of necessity when I create, proofread, and edit/update entries in it, this did not bring my ego a huge amount of gratification.

However, this time I noticed that one person or agent each from India, South Korea, Australia, France, and the Netherlands has looked at it; a small but maybe no longer "zero population" audience.

My own nascent ego boost aside, there seems to be substantial grounds for someone else to be proud — though it likely comes as no surprise to them — is Google Chrome.

One third of my readers were using Chrome with about one-sixth each using one of the others:  Firefox,  Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari.  So based on this incredibly small, narrow sampling, Chrome seems to have way more usage than I expected; at least, under this subject it does.

The identification of the brand of operating system statistically being used was a surprise too.  While Microsoft Windows enjoyed 2/3 of the visits, 1/6 each were enjoyed by Macintosh & Linux.

This is a big turnaround from half a dozen years ago when people and businesses were just "presumed" to be using Internet Explorer and running Microsoft Windows.

The World Wide Web was always supposed to be enjoyed from a multitude of different platforms and not just brands but kinds of web browsers.  They do not just refer to the latter as "user agents" in all of the technical literature for the pointless sake of vagueness; versatility and diversity has been a goal of web architects and designers for decades.

So there are pleasant conclusions, or at least hypothesis to be drawn from looking at who and what sees my blog.

Now, if I could just get them to do it twice!