Year in review: UXPassion.com during 2008
UXPassion.com has “officially” been launched on September 9, 2008. Beginning of the new year is good opportunity to look back and share statistics and interesting details as well as give you some insight on what direction UXPassion.com will take in 2009. Also, there is a call to action for you as a reader.
As I just mentioned, all data shown in this statistics will represent the time span from September 9, 2008 up to December 31, 2008. I am taking UXPassion.com as a blog very seriously and I am tracking all data I can collect from various sources on a daily basis. I have developed my personal scorecard and I am using it as a tool for helping me direct this blog, its content and any future plans.
In that period UXPassion.com has been visited 95,478 times and visitors came from 132 countries.
I am really thankful and proud to see average growth rate of 58% on month-by-month basis.
Top 10 countries: United States, Croatia, United Kingdom, India, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Australia, Serbia and Poland.
You prefer Firefox over Internet Explorer (45,67% vs 37,47%) but you also use Opera (7,78%), Chrome (6,94%) and Safari (1,60%).
Regarding the operating systems – 95,53% of you use Windows, Mac users are here also at 2,96% and Linux guys are third with 1,23%. Interesting fact – about 0,1% users use iPhone to visit UXPassion.com! Regarding screen resolutions – 99,8% have screen resolutions 1024 x 768 or higher. It seems that with 22,33% resolution of 1280×1024 is the most popular. Regarding Flash support – 96% of you have some version of Flash player installed – 41,5% use newest Flash 10! When it comes to Java, 86,88% of our visitors have it installed. I don’t have any data on Silverlight yet, sorry.
You have really enjoyed series of tutorials on free WPF ribbon control (Scenic Ribbon, Office 2007 look) with more than 22,000 visitors reading those articles. Thank you so much!
UXPassion.com’s Alexa rank has jumped from about 17 million to 322,225 in just 2 months! Google PageRank has jumped from 0 (unranked) to PR 4 where it stands as of December 31st.
What will new 2009 bring to UXPassion.com? Take a look at this article and please cast your votes and feel free to suggest topics and areas where you will like to see UXPassion.com focused during 2009.
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Thank you for each and every visit, comment, e-mail and suggestion you have shared with me. Please, continue to do so!