I love statistics.

For instance the average reader of my blog checks in at one of four key times during the day. Mornings around 10 am, lunch, afternoons around 3 pm, after dinner around 7 pm and before bed about 10 pm. Of course there are variables and outliers but these are the general peak times of day.

Most of my readers find the blog through search engines. The VAST majority coming through Google. Like 99 percent through Google. Some come through Bing or Baidu etc.

The most popular landing page is Home from which people browse. Next to that my most popular post last year was The Study Quran: A Non-Muslim View followed by I Don’t Chew My Cabbage Twice and Cooper Black Diamond #240.

This is the area I also learn of interesting new websites like blackbox.ai or Ecosia not to mention odd referrals from classroom.google.com. Actually classroom.google.com is the fourth most used referral site in the past three years. I’d like to think there’s a teacher out there somewhere using my poetry in their class.

In the past year the top 10 countries my visitors come from are – Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India, Australia, Belgium, China, Japan and Ireland. Interesting. I love this stuff. Even as I have been writing this post I have had a visitor from Poland. Cool.

In the past three years Manitoba is the largest region from which people visit followed, puzzlingly by Virginia/D.C. (Washington). Perhaps the CIA, who knows. The top 10 cities that I have had visitors from over the past three years include: Winkler/Morden, Winnipeg, Washington, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Brussels, Menlo Park, Ashburn and New York City.

If we narrow down to just today so far the top cities from which my visitors have come include Winkler/Morden; Allen, USA; Reading USA; Warsaw Poland; and Duncan Canada. In the past week someone from Council Bluffs, Iowa has been browsing the site. Do I know someone from Council Bluffs? Hello Council Bluffs.

In the past year users by device broke down as follows: 72 percent desktop/laptop; 27 percent mobile and 1 percent tablet. Chrome was the most popular browser followed by Safari in a distant second. Firefox and Opera were in there and in a distant last was Edge (which I personally like).

The breakdown by OS shows Windows at the top of the list with about 60 percent of my visitors followed in order by iPhone, Android, Mac and Linux.

The most popular day and time for people to look at my blog this year is Tuesday at 4 pm. Hmmm.

Posts from my blog have been shared more than 3,800 times with Reddit being second only to Facebook by a sliver,

Anyhow, all that and loads more that I love sifting through like Smaug through his pile of gold. Great fun.