Search gems - and a few stats

The strangest google search that ended up on this blog for quite some time:

• methodist college belfast nappy

While we're in statistics overload, of the last 100 visitors to Alan in Belfast:

• 47% used Internet Explorer (27% on IE 6.*, 20% on IE 7.0)
• 41% used Firefox (or Mozilla)
• 11% used Safari
• 1% Opera

And in terms of operating systems:

• 84% Windows XP
• 11% Mac OS X
• 2% Microsoft Vista
• 1% Linux
• 1% Windows 98
• 1% other

Oh, and the monitor resolutions of the snapshot of 100 visitors ranged from 800x600 (10%) up to a massive 1680x1050 (4%).

Before you get worried about your privacy, these stats are sent out every time you request to download a page from a webserver. (Some browsers will allow you to spoof some of the data. Opera is usually underreported as people set it to pretend to be IE to increase compatibility.)

As well a flood of seasonal hits looking for GPS devices, some of the other search terms include:

• youtube mouse belfast (the guy who bit the head of a mouse)
• flashmob belfast (I don't think there is one planned)
• jobs at ikea belfast (don't think there's anything listed yet)
• knocknagoney tesco jobs (bit late for a Christmas job!)

as well as a flood for

• torchwood series 2 and torchwood series two.