Tag Archives: statistics

My 2021 in music scrobbles

Posted on Saturday, 12. March 2022 by hmvh

While we’re on a roll with music and metadata, let’s throw coronavirus and statistics into the mix. What I did do was scrobble the metadata embedded within a stash of local MP3 files — usually playing “100 random songs” as background music while going on with my salaried work or other activities. Last.fm has a personal profile on me. This post is about distorted data and false analyses. Continue reading →

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Meta blogging

Posted on Thursday, 6. August 2020 by hmvh

Any housekeeping writing about how it’s been a while since you’ve written, or how you changed some obscure part of your blog, doesn’t tend to age very well and is seldom particularly compelling in retrospect. The exception are genres like technical or design blogs, where the meta is part of the message. But certainly the world doesn’t need any more “sorry I haven’t written in a while” posts. Continue reading →

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Statistics, analytics and trends

Posted on Tuesday, 10. October 2017 by hmvh

On February 1st, 2017 my first website finally went 404. Its host, arcor.de, shut down. Nonetheless, in its 15 years online the site allowed me to observe a shift in online users’ behaviour and trends. Here are a few observations based on the final statistics before the site went dark. Continue reading →

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Mobile visitors

Posted on Saturday, 24. September 2016 by hmvh

My little page about South African Bulletin Board Systems doesn’t pull in a lot of visitors. What surprised me most about the influx of readers was the devices they used. Almost half are mobile devices. Continue reading →

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The end of the decade is nigh

Posted on Thursday, 31. December 2009 by hmvh

While we’re rounding up what’s left of the current decade, allow us to reveal some statistics of nonsense within the vast hmvh network of shenaniganisms. It’s turned out that the most popular blog posting by far is the the pseudo-humouresque, quasi-investigative, and semi-critical-of-life-online essay called “The story of Moshzilla”. Continue reading →

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Second Anniversary

Posted on Thursday, 21. May 2009 by hmvh

What we have noticed over the past two years is an interesting shift in web browser usage. Sure, IE still rules the roost, with Firefox picking up a good quarter of the slack. Opera, Safari, and Chrome are trailing behind but it’s a pack of non-computer-based browsers that are making inroads as of late. Nokia and Symbian are two new “operating systems” looming on the horizon, and the Wii and PS3 are making up nearly a full percent of gadgetry used to browse the interwebs with. Continue reading →

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