Tom McGee's Blog

In the shuf­fle this week I for­get to note that tom​-mcgee​.com has been on the Web for three years. The actual date is lost some­where in the sands of time, but by my best reck­on­ing the launch date was May 6, 2006.

Since then, the site has had 13,164 vis­i­tors, and 27,800 page views. The most pop­u­lar items here have been this blog, launched in June 2006; three arti­cles about using sIFR, the Flash-based font tool for web use; my resume; the Sam­ples & Exam­ples page; and the geeky piece on Joomla and Mambo menus. Another geeky item about Cube­Cart is catch­ing up.

Peo­ple find the site usu­ally by look­ing for me by name, pri­mar­ily. Fol­low­ing that they’re look­ing for mate­r­ial on sIFR, Maple­wood­stock or the search term, “cube­cart sucks.” I guess I’m not alone in think­ing that.

The biggest month was June 2008, the month that a very dam­ag­ing storm hit my town. I posted some on-the-scene pho­tos and the car­nage attracted over 1,000 vis­i­tors. The most page views were in Octo­ber, 2008 — though I think mostly that was just me and my cousin bang­ing away against my new Geneal­ogy program.

Most of the vis­i­tors have come from the US. Next in line (at a 12–1 ratio) were the UK, Canada, the Nether­lands and Aus­tralia. The most-active US states were, nat­u­rally, New Jer­sey and Ohio, fol­lowed by Cal­i­for­nia and New York. But vis­i­tors have come from every state in the union, and all but three coun­tries in the Amer­i­cas, all of Europe, all of Asia except Afghanistan, Iraq, some of the southerly for­mer Soviet republics, Myan­mar, Laos and New Guinea.

In keep­ing with peo­ple search­ing me out by name, most of my traf­fic comes from Google. Beyond that, I get refer­rals from maple​woodon​line​.com, southo​r​angevil​lage​.com (the two neigh­bor­ing towns I live in), yazoost​reet​.blogspot​.com (thanks, Anthony Car­touche), and nj​.com.

So thanks to you all for your sup­port and patron­age. It’s nice to know that these ran­dom diary entries are being seen by some­one. I hope you con­tinue to find it use­ful and entertaining.