Sunday, April 5, 2009
By: Matthew Doucette
Statistics are always fun. Here's our 2008 stats, plus the top 10 most visited articles in that time frame:
Xona.com 2008 stats by day
Xona.com 2008 stats by week
Xona.com 2008 stats by month
The Top 10:
- What is "wuauclt.exe" and "wuaudt.exe"? (xona.com/2004/08/26.html)
- How to Delete Undeletable Files or Folders (xona.com/2004/08/19.html)
- Domain Hacks (xona.com/domainhacks)
- Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena (xona.com/opticalillusions)
- Visual C++ .NET Standard Edition - Free Optimizing Compiler (xona.com/2004/06/29.html)
- Xona.com (xona.com)
- SpinRite 6.0 - HD Maintenance, Recovery, and Repair Software (xona.com/2004/06/07.html)
- Domain Hacks Suggest (xona.com/domainhacks/suggest)
- Windows XP Setup Tweaks & Tips (xona.com/2004/05/22.html)
- Inspirational Quotes (xona.com/quotes/inspirational.html)
Domain Hacks is our domain hack search utility. We coined the term "domain hack" in late 2004 when we introduced our domain hack search. Read Domain Hacks & Email Hacks for more information.
The Xona.com listing is, of course, our main page.
Windows XP Setup Tweaks & Tips was our first article. It was written in early 2004.
11..20:
- Proper Way to Recreate My Computer Desktop Icon (xona.com/2004/07/16-2.html)
- Education Quotes (xona.com/quotes/education.html)
- Financial Quotes (xona.com/quotes/financial.html)
- Domain Hacks & Email Hacks (xona.com/2004/11/03.html)
- Run Tasks in Low Priority (xona.com/2004/07/22.html)
- How To Upgrade phpBB (xona.com/2006/04/24.html)
- Reset Windows XP's Default Desktop Color (xona.com/2006/07/22.html)
- Uninstall 180 Search Assistant (xona.com/2004/07/18-2.html)
- WinRAR Tip #7: Batch File Backups (xona.com/2006/07/05g.html)
- Rare Parsec Facts (The TI-99/4A Video Game) (xona.com/ti994a/parsec.html)
I wonder if the financial quotes were mostly miss-hits. As of the time of this writing, we are #1 in google.ca and #2 in google.com for "financial quotes":
It should be noted that Uninstall 180 Search Assistant is surely outdated by now.
WinRAR Tip #7: Batch File Backups is just one of many WinRAR Tips. It is an excellent backup and storage tip, which shows how to create time-stamped RAR file backups that do not overwrite previous backups.
Does anyone remember Parsec or the TI-99/4A? It is one of our favorite games of all time, on our very first computer.
21..30:
- Uninstall Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) (xona.com/2005/03/16.html)
- IE7: Disable Language Bar (xona.com/2007/01/24.html)
- Blue Colored Filenames (xona.com/2006/07/11.html)
- Quiet Your Hard Drive / Case Vibration Noise (xona.com/2006/08/02.html)
- Intelligence Quotes (xona.com/quotes/intelligence.html)
- Domain Hacks Suggest Top-Level Domains Used (xona.com/domainhacks/suggest/tld.html)
- Customize Your Windows Explorer Shortcut (xona.com/2004/07/18.html)
- The TI-99/4A Home Computer (xona.com/ti994a)
- WinRAR Tip #3: Delete Multiple Files out of Multiple RAR Files (xona.com/2006/07/05c.html)
- Domain Hacks Information (xona.com/domainhacks/info.html)
We use to own ti994a.com, but gave it away before making use of it. It looks like it is up for sale now. I won't link to it as who knows where it will link to tomorrow.
31..40:
- How do Variable Argument List Functions Work? (xona.com/2006/07/27.html)
- ZoomView (xona.com/zoomview/)
- WinRAR Tip #5: Run with Multi-Threading (xona.com/2006/07/05e.html)
- Wallpapers (xona.com/wallpapers/)
- Visual Studio .NET Keyboard Shortcuts Macro (xona.com/2005/08/02.html)
- Scientific Quotes (xona.com/quotes/scientific.html)
- Minesweeper and Random Number Generation (xona.com/2004/07/27-2.html)
- Smallest Positive Floating Point Values (xona.com/2006/07/26.html)
- Turbo Pascal's 64-bit comp Type (xona.com/2006/07/29.html)
- Chess Quotes (xona.com/quotes/chess.html)
If you haven't heard of our Windows ZoomView app, check it out. Great for graphics designers and programmers.
Our wallpapers section is quite lacking, but look soon for Duality: ZF walllpapers. Many wallpapers we had originally appeared on matthewdoucette.com, which now links to xona.com, and were removed due to excessive hotlinking. It is too bad we had to reject a lot of visitors due to this abuse. jasondoucette.com still has additional wallpapers.
#37, #38, and #39 are all very cool computer math articles by Jason.
41..50:
- Action Quotes (xona.com/quotes/action.html)
- Hectomillionaire vs. Centimillionaire (xona.com/2006/12/17.html)
- Personal Quotes (xona.com/quotes/personal.html)
- Anti-Aliased Text: Better or Worse? (xona.com/2004/08/03-2.html)
- Quotes (xona.com/quotes)
- Monopoly National Championship Quiz Answers (xona.com/2004/07/23.html)
- Programming Quotes (xona.com/quotes/programming.html)
- Anti-Spyware Software Suggestions (xona.com/2006/06/21.html)
- Negative Quotes (xona.com/quotes/negative.html)
- Duality ZF (xona.com/dualityzf)
Do you know what a Hectomillionaire is? As of the time of this writing, we are #1 and #2 in google.ca and google.com for "hectomillionaire":
Who doesn't love Monopoly?
Duality ZF, our upcoming Xbox 360 game, finally makes it on the list at #50. Hopefully year 2009 will bump it to the top. It will be released later this month (April 2009).
Our Preferred Top Articles:
Thought you might find it interesting to see our preferred top articles:
- Duality ZF (xona.com/dualityzf)
- Xona Games (xona.com/games)
- Domain Hacks (xona.com/domainhacks)
- Freeware (xona.com/ware)
- Articles (xona.com/articles)
Duality ZF is number one, as it's our current project; We are very excited about it! Also, note that some of these articles barely existed throughout the 2008 year.
That is all.
About the Author: I am Matthew Doucette of Xona Games, an award-winning indie game studio that I founded with my twin brother. We make intensified arcade-style retro games. Our business, our games, our technology, and we as competitive gamers have won prestigious awards and received worldwide press. Our business has won $190,000 in contests. Our games have ranked from #1 in Canada to #1 in Japan, have become #1 best sellers in multiple countries, have won game contests, and have held 3 of the top 5 rated spots in Japan of all Xbox LIVE indie games. Our game engines have been awarded for technical excellence. And we, the developers, have placed #1 in competitive gaming competitions -- relating to the games we make. Read about our story, our awards, our games, and view our blog.