Today I published my 300th Linux news story! Having reached this landmark and approaching Linux Loop’s one year anniversary, I decided to share some stats and a quick look at the future of this site.

First, some stats (all stats are according to Google Analytics):

• This site has received over 120,000 unique visitors and almost 190,000 page views.
• The site has been visited from every country in North America and Central America, all but one country in South America, every major country in Europe (meaning every country that you can easily see on a map), Australia, and many countries in Africa and Asia.
• Over 50% of visits to this site came from Windows machines (sheesh…) with Linux in the #2 spot at not quite 40%.
• Firefox is the top browser used to visit this site at around 74% with IE at around 12%.

Now, a quick look at the future:

Currently, this site uses a combination of static HTML and WordPress. I like WordPress a lot, but it is not designed for sites that are more than just a blog and trying to manage a combination of static HTML and two WP installations is really, really annoying. My idea is to move to a more full-featured CMS (content management system) such as Drupal that could handle the whole site.

This would largely just mean a new look for the site, but it could also mean some change in content, since it would be much easier to publish non-news articles. If I decide to go ahead and move to Drupal, I will probably put up a poll about what type of content you are most interested in (news, tutorials, reviews, comedy, anything else you can think of.) If you have any thoughts, of course, I am happy to hear them now, too, though.

In short, the site is continuing to grow, though it is still relatively small, and the future looks great!

Hope you continue to enjoy the site and the content!

Yesterday this website reached 100,000 all-time unique visitors! I am very excited about what this site has been and what it will be in the future. Thanks to everyone who has visited this site and please keep coming back!

In the process of thinking about how to expand this site into new content areas, I started wondering how many regular visitors I really have. Yes, I use Google Analytics so I can see how many visits this site gets and how many times people come back and stuff, but statistics lie and anyway how many visits in what time period makes someone a regular visitor? Basically, it is very hard to use the stats provided by Google Analytics and decide I have x number of regular visitors. Because of this, I have decided to start a poll. The question is “Are you or do you plan to be a regular visitor to this site?” Answering the poll will help me get an idea of how many regular visitors I have. This, in turn, will help me expand and add content to this site.

You can vote on the Linux News page.

After just over 100 posts and about 4.5 months, here a few statistics on Linux Loop.

(Everything is as of the time of writing.)

General

• 133 Days Since Linux Loop was Launched

Content Numbers

Linux Loop News Blog:

• 102 Posts
• 63 Comments
• Average of .77 posts per day for all time
• Average of 1 posts per day for the past month

Guides and Tutorials

• 2 Original Guides
• 6 Links to Tested Guides

Visitors

In the last 30 days (NOT all time):

• 12,395 Visits
• 9,305 Visitors
• Almost 80% of all traffic comes from referring sites (links from other sites)

Since Linux Loop was launched, it has gotten visits from 124 countries. Linux Loop has received visits from the countries in green below:

(Click to zoom.)

Summary

I am very pleased with the number of visits Linux Loop has received and I hope that that number will continue to grow. Thanks to LXer for linking to my content many times, without it I would not be doing anywhere near this well. For now I am going to continue what I have been doing. There are no big changes coming soon, but please go ahead and leave feedback in the comments. Thank so much for reading this site and I hope you continue to do so.