Happy New Year!

At the tone, the time will be, 2006.

Happy New Year!

The Peter Files Blog has had 16,625 visits since its first post on February 19, 2005 and approximately 25,000 page views.

In May we started using a free web counter, OneStat, that tracked countries of origin, for those that could be identified, and watched as the number of hits from around the world increased.

Oh the wonder of the the World Wide Web, by years end 111 countries had been tracked.

1.	United States	9,659		64.99%
2.	United Kingdom	814		5.48%
3.	Canada	589		3.96%
4.	Germany	554		3.73%
5.	Other	313		2.11%
6.	France	271		1.82%
7.	Australia	229		1.54%
8.	Netherlands	217		1.46%
9.	Italy	137		0.92%
10.	Spain	122		0.82%
11.	United Arab Emirates	120		0.81%
12.	Belgium	113		0.76%
13.	Switzerland	109		0.73%
14.	Sweden	98		0.66%
15.	Poland	88		0.59%
16.	Singapore	82		0.55%
17.	Japan	76		0.51%
18.	Norway	71		0.48%
19.	India	66		0.44%
20.	Turkey	66		0.44%
21.	Denmark	62		0.42%
22.	Finland	52		0.35%
23.	Austria	48		0.32%
24.	Russian Federation	47		0.32%
25.	Israel	44		0.30%
26.	Brazil	41		0.28%
27.	Saudi Arabia	41		0.28%
28.	Peru	34		0.23%
29.	New Zealand	33		0.22%
30.	Mexico	33		0.22%
31.	Thailand	28		0.19%
32.	Malaysia	27		0.18%
33.	Ireland	27		0.18%
34.	Argentina	25		0.17%
35.	Oman	25		0.17%
36.	Czech Republic	24		0.16%
37.	Iran	23		0.15%
38.	Philippines	23		0.15%
39.	Venezuela	23		0.15%
40.	Taiwan	22		0.15%
41.	Chile	22		0.15%
42.	Korea (South)	21		0.14%
43.	Greece	20		0.13%
44.	Romania	20		0.13%
45.	South Africa	20		0.13%
46.	Portugal	19		0.13%
47.	Iceland	14		0.09%
48.	Hungary	14		0.09%
49.	Egypt	13		0.09%
50.	Kuwait	11		0.07%
51.	Morocco	11		0.07%
52.	Bulgaria	11		0.07%
53.	Qatar	10		0.07%
54.	Slovenia	9		0.06%
55.	Uruguay	9		0.06%
56.	Croatia (Hrvatska)	9		0.06%
57.	Hong Kong	8		0.05%
58.	Lithuania	8		0.05%
59.	Estonia	7		0.05%
60.	Yemen	7		0.05%
61.	Ukraine	6		0.04%
62.	Guam	6		0.04%
63.	Azerbaijan	6		0.04%
64.	China	5		0.03%
65.	Luxembourg	5		0.03%
66.	Nigeria	5		0.03%
67.	Puerto Rico	5		0.03%
68.	Vietnam	4		0.03%
69.	Jordan	4		0.03%
70.	Colombia	4		0.03%
71.	Cyprus	4		0.03%
72.	Dominican Republic	4		0.03%
73.	Czechoslovakia (former)	3		0.02%
74.	Bermuda	3		0.02%
75.	Brunei Darussalam	3		0.02%
76.	Latvia	3		0.02%
77.	Indonesia	3		0.02%
78.	Mauritius	3		0.02%
79.	Lebanon	3		0.02%
80.	Senegal	3		0.02%
81.	Pakistan	3		0.02%
82.	Sudan	3		0.02%
83.	Uganda	2		0.01%
84.	Moldova	2		0.01%
85.	Malta	2		0.01%
86.	Myanmar	2		0.01%
87.	Maldives	2		0.01%
88.	Bolivia	2		0.01%
89.	Dominica	2		0.01%
90.	Ecuador	1		0.01%
91.	Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	1		0.01%
92.	Ghana	1		0.01%
93.	Gibraltar	1		0.01%
94.	Bahamas	1		0.01%
95.	Belize	1		0.01%
96.	Bahrain	1		0.01%
97.	Benin	1		0.01%
98.	Nepal	1		0.01%
99.	Nicaragua	1		0.01%
100.	Macau	1		0.01%
101.	Northern Mariana Islands	1		0.01%
102.	Macedonia	1		0.01%
103.	Libya	1		0.01%
104.	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1		0.01%
105.	Tunisia	1		0.01%
106.	Trinidad and Tobago	1		0.01%
107.	Yugoslavia	1		0.01%
108.	Zimbabwe	1		0.01%
109.	El Salvador	1		0.01%
110.	Slovak Republic	1		0.01%
111.	French Polynesia	1		0.01%
	Total	14,863		100.00%

Amazingly just over 2% could not be identified, it appeared. Nearly 2/3rds are from the United States of course, but the breadth of the other countries is remarkable. As winter has its grips on Chicago, I cannot help but wonder about the person who clicked from French Polynesia, what drew them here, the weather report?

In the Fall I added pesky google and Amazon ads which have generaged less than $10 in revenue. Thanks to those who clicked on the Google ads. If someone buys from Amazon after clicking there from here we see some revenue too, so consider it, they now have a deal with Target and some other suppliers so the odds of finding something you need through the search box are greater than ever. And of course, you can always get an iPod through the ads here.

Most of all, the blog is achieving my main objectives which has been to have fun, write creatively, find a non-technical writing voice, and learn some html code. From that point of view it has been a very sucessful year with more than 300 posts under my belt now. I hope you have enjoyed them. If this is your first visit to the Peter Files Blog, I encourage you to dive into the archives, there is a lot of fun stuff there.

With American Idol starting up again, you might want to search for my posts on that in the blog search box, or check out some of the posts in "My Favorite Posts". I need to update that. Be sure to check some of the sites on my blogroll too.

If you are a regular visitor, thanks for stopping by. Be sure to leave a comment one of these visits. If you find another safe fun site, be sure to leave a link.

Peter

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