One year of Planet Grep.

Well—almost, anyway. Planet Grep was launched on the 28th of November, 2005, at which date it managed to collect an astonishing 117 hits, for a total of 9,23M. At least that's what my awstats pages say (they're on samba.grep.be, but don't bother trying to read them—you need a Kerberos account in the GREP.BE realm to do so). I guess I should wait 'till the end of the month before posting a post such as this one, but I got interested due to the poking of one particular individual who would fit the target personae of Planet Grep had he had a blog.

It might be nice to try and figure out whether it's been a popular year. And I would say that this is the case: the next month, it surpassed the bandwidth usage of my regular site at grep.be, and by the end of January, it had almost double that amount (789M for Planet Grep vs 372MB for grep.be).

Pretty quick start, that.

These days, bandwidth usage has risen to a good 2G of bandwidth each month (on average), where it has stagnated (the peak was in june at 2,33G). That's about 55M per day, on average. Not bad for a simple business ADSL line.

Contrary to what I'd expected, the site is most popular on wednesdays (59M, or 646 pages on average), rather than in weekends. In fact, weekends sees the lowest number of hits (even if it still reaches a good 50M). But that's easily explained if we look at the hours during which Planet Grep is most often consulted: most of you seem to take a quick peek at this page just after lunch break (between 14:00 and 15:00). Shouldn't you be working, no?

Ah well. It might also be interesting to note that most of you use an RSS reader. 132039 hits were to /rss20.xml, 31297 were to /rss10.xml, and only 18594 hits were to the main page.

Which is probably the reason why 73.4 % of you use an unknown browser, and 56.1 % an unknown operating system. But at least Firefox and Linux occupy a good second place on both lists, which is what I care most about.

Let's see what happens a year from now, shall we?