Matt’s Journal

Here are a few facts you maybe interested in knowing about this blog:

1. I started this blog in January 2006, meaning it will be two years old come the New Year.
2. There are currently 201 posts and 293 comments, contained within 27 categories and 119 tags on this blog.
3. Since the 8th June 2007, this blog has had 81904 hits and 7520 complete sessions.
4. Since applying Adsense, this blog has generated $104.06 (around £51).
5. In the two years it’s been active, the blog has been redesigned around 10 times (I can never see it ending!).
6. I get more hits from the US than from my native UK (US = 63%, UK only = 2.83%).
7. This blog has always run on Wordpress (self hosted), except for the 2 weeks in January 2006 when it got spammed to death on another platform.
8. The most popular pages are: Barclays PinSentry, Using TVersity to stream to your Xbox 360 and Faster Download Speeds with uTorrent.
9. Akismet has protected my site from 6,844 spam comments.

It’s interesting to look back and see how it all started, I hope it continues to grow and people enjoy reading it.