We thought it might be interesting to let you know some statistics from site visitors.
Browsers and operating systems
The browser breakdown is:
Firefox – 61%
Internet Explorer – 21%
Safari – 13%
Opera – 3.00%
Of the Internet Explorer visitors, 51% used IE7 and 49% IE6
68% of visitors were on a Windows platform and 30% on a Mac. For Windows visitors, 84% were using XP and 11% Vista.
Where are you from?
People from 150 countries have visited the Webstock site, although the visits haven’t been evenly distributed among them! The top six countries for visitors are:
United States – 29%
New Zealand – 21%
United Kingdom – 5%
Australia – 4%
Canada – 4%
Gerrmany – 4%
The top five states for USA vistors are:
California – 18%
New York – 8%
Texas – 7%
Florida – 5%
Illinois – 5%
Of New Zealand visitors, 45% are from Auckland and 41% from Wellington.
How did you get here?
19% of visits were direct traffic, 74% from referrals and 7% from search engines. The referral traffic reflects that Webstock has been mentioned a number of times as an example of great design (yah!). The top six link-love sites are:
linkcssremix.com – 13%
linkwebdesignerwall.com – 11%
linkbestwebgallery.com – 11%
linkthebestdesigns.com – 9%
linkwebcreme.com – 8%
ilovetypography.com – 5%
For search engine traffic, the first non-Webstock-related search term has been “Sam Morgan”.
How many times and for how long?
Well, in general not many! 77% of visitors have only been the once and 64% have only visited one page. But we do want to give a huge shout-out to the 158 of you who’ve visited more than 100 times and those 317 people who’ve seen more than 20 pages on a single visit.
Stephen Blyth is optimistic about using the internet to better the lot of people and the planet. He works with community organisations and government departments on web content development, online participation and capacity building projects.
Prior to becoming self-employed in mid-2007 Stephen worked for 15 years in advisory and management in government and NGO sectors. Since 2005 he has been a Trustee of Wellington Region 2020 Communications Trust, a charitable organisation running many innovative community-based ICT projects.
For updates on Stephen’s latest work, gardening and other enthusiasms visit his blog.
Stephen writes
Here’s what Webstock means to me:
Normally when learning about new things I like to be able to gestate, cogitate, dilly-dally. But because the web and online tools, applications and the latest and greatest change so fast, I struggle to find the time to keep up.
I’m working mostly with community and voluntary groups and I don’t think it is fair that they miss out on all the internet has to offer. So, by coming to Webstock, I’m seeing it as a speed date with trends, standards and new ideas, plus I want to converse with others inclined towards using ICTs for social justice and environmental protection.
I’ll pass on any gems I glean to the groups and networks I’m working with.
What does freedom mean to you? Contribute your vision of freedom to our digital photo exhibition which will be displayed at Webstock this year. This exhibition is open to anyone.
For you intelligent and beautiful people who are actually attending Webstock, you will also have a chance to win a Nintendo Wii! Yes, we will be giving away a Wii to the best image by a Webstock attendee.
Join the Flickr group and start submitting images!
The rules are simple:
Contribute as many as you like
The images should mean “freedom” to you
JPG format please
At least 1280 x 800ish (they will be displayed on a big monitor, so the bigger the better, really).
Keep it clean (so we can show the kids 😉
The fine print:
The Nintendo Wii will be given to a Webstock attendee only. The award will be decided by a yet-to-be chosen judge and his/her decision will be final.
The Nintendo Wii will be demo’d in an exhibition area of the conference prior to be given away as a prize.
Webstock committee members are not eligible for the Nintendo Wii (with great regret as we really want one).
The rules are simple. Three speakers onstage, one after the other. Each has to speak to a Powerpoint presentation. Each presentation has 12 slides. Each slide is onscreen for 15 seconds. What could be simpler?
Oh, there’s a catch. None of them has seen the presentation before. They’ll each be ad-libbing. Onstage. In front of the Webstock audience and in front of a panel of tough judges.
Yes, this is Powerpoint Karaoke Idol!
Michael Lopp vs Nat Torkington vs Damian Conway. Live onstage. Thursday 14 February at Webstock. Full details here.
Webstock is about improving websites and also knowledge-sharing and good web citizenship.
Until we win Lotto we can’t make the Conference free for everyone. But thanks to the help of InternetNZ, and all of you who paid for a ticket, we’re thrilled to be able to provide some scholarships to help 9 people to attend. Two are from Samoa, and the others from various parts of New Zealand.
We reckon the the scholarship winners have a lot to contribute to Webstock.
Over the next few weeks we aim to profile some of the scholarship winners on the blog here, starting with Nynette Sass.
oversees E-booking system and data collection plus being the official, “unofficial” photographer etc.
a mad game fisherwoman, enjoys the occasional game of golf, time permitting, especially the 19th hole, sailing, hashing… not the smoking type,
is artistic and enjoys playing around in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, time permitting
competitive in both sports and business
and has an infectious sense of humour.
Nynette says:
I spend most of my working time on the computer and on the Net that it only makes sense to learn more about how I can utilise this media to better help our organisation and furthermore, to share the knowledge with potential converts to improve their business opportunities thru wider exposure etc.
Also check out the following blogs which I am also involved with:
