3,000 Visitors

What could be more fitting than, on the eve of my departure back to the United States for a month and a half, than to reach 3,000 visitors on Taiwanablog. On October 5th, 2008 we reached our next 1k milestone. This round saw a much wider range of hits coming in off of google due to my larger subject matter (and cleverly placed cliches and song lyrics). So while I can't account for everything, I will at least give you a taste of what I saw here these last five months.

Taipei fell to fourth place this time around with Neihu (Taiwan) coming in first at 144 hits, followed by San-Chung (Taiwan) at 120, then Chestnut Hill (USA) at 64. As for country related hits, the United States came in strong at 508 hits, with interest coming from 34 states: Massachusetts, California, New York, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Maryland, Kentucky, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Minnesota.

Taiwan- Neihu, San-Chung, Taipei, Taoyuan, Chungli, Xindian, Tai-Chung, Kao-Hsiung, Kang Shan, and Hsin-Chu.

United Kingdom- London, Sheffield, Kingswinford, Lambeth, Rochdale, Reading, Milton Keynes, Wombwell, Birmingham, and Skelmersdale.

Singapore

Thailand- Bangkok, Phitsanulok, and Phra Nakon Si Ayutthaya

The Philippines- Rosario, Tacloban, Legazpi, Manila, and Makati

Germany- Berlin, Wuppertal, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Darmstadt, Paderborn, Halle, and Olfen.

Canada- Medicine Hat, Etobicoke, Ottawa, Edmonton, Thorold, North Battleford, Halifax, and Victoria

Malaysia- Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Kuli.

India- Calcutta, Thanjavur, Cochin, and Chennai.

Australia- Sydney, Brisbane, and Darwin.

China- Luoyang, Dalian, Guangzhou, and Xianyang.

France- Paris, Neuilly-Sur-Marne, and La Tronche.

Hong Kong- Hong Kong and Kowloon.

And spatterings in Spain, Ireland, South Korea, the Netherlands, Brazil, Denmark, Peru, Indonesia, Peurto Rico, New Zealand, U.S. Virigin Islands, Jamaica, Malta, Greece, Japan, Dominican Republic, Israel, Belium, Switzerland, Poland, Brunei, Mongoli, Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emerites, and Costa Rica.

Of the 1,001 hits since May 13th, we saw 425 new visitors check out 1,498 different pages, spending an aver 1 minute and 32 minutes perusing the blog. Firefox became the internet browser of choice this time, beating out Internet Explorer 510 to 424.

448 people signed onto Taiwanablog directly while Google sent 298, Blogger sent 87, Facebook 74, Google Imagaes 54 (that's right- my pictures now come up on a Google Image search), Reach to Teach Recruiting sent 13, and then a spattering of other e-mails, browsers, and strangely enough, even Taiwanablog refered someone to itself!

217 google keyword searches brought visitors to my blog. "Taiwanblog" reigned supreme once more at 54 searches. Now, I am not going to write all 217 keyword searches, so I will share with you some of the more interesting searches that brought folks my way.

-23 related searches looking the lyrics to "Moondance" by Van Morrison
-shark hunting tips
-ingrid wenzler
-full moon party nasty
-king cobra charlie brown
-lady whipped
-(dis)orient
-3489c271a7ab929f4e19b1d90f2307694a1d5775445d349b540ad70438e34eba9f28aef082a1d74b
-an angry king cobra
-are wendy's frosties lactose intolerant safe
-bbq snake cobra+cooking
-best king cobra fight video
-black widow maker
-charlie brown string bean salad
-cow patties ann arbor
-crazy lady thailand
-how long is a night on the moon
-mothray
-national cow-tipping day
-planet naburi
-taipei hotsprings naked
-prostitutes buriram

The longest anyone spent on the site this time was around 13 minutes. I guess they couldn't find any prostitutes from Buriram.

Xiegualing!