Spirit of the time -- 2007/08

Yay --- the 75th Anniversary was, well, absolutely beautiful --- there is something inherently good about 75 that even trying to pen to words is to limit it to a definition --- Mad love, mad respect to everybody and I mean ai'body!

But, now, I will break down the annual report, the Zeitgeist: Spirit of the time of 75 since last year April 2007.  Here we go, it's going to be a very long post, so bare with me.

Internally.

1. 1987 Photographs
2. 11239 Comments
3. 138 People
   1. 53 'graphers --- 4 not active, yet.
   2. and a couple more we hoping they will return.

Hmm,, that's it on the inside, now for the outside.

Externally

The numbers, the stats:

1. 10,669 unique visitors
2. 57,131 visits
3. 499,659 page impressions/views (+862,074)
4. 3,349,240 Hits, if these still matter (+874,152)
5. 100.71 GB of Bandwidth transferred

Where do we come from?  Well, it's easier to tell you where we didn't come from, almost the entire planet, except those countries where the 'regime/government' is not so, popular.  I think a picture will give you a better idea of what is.

Make sense?

Well, lets see from where in South Africa (considering we are all mostly connecting from South Africa)

Rosebank, Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Bramley, Cape Town, Pretoria, Sandton, Modderfontein, Randburg, Durban, Claremont, Germiston, Midrand, Bellville, Brakpan, Westdene, Laudium, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth, Pietermaritzburg, Monument, Centurion, Rooderpoort, Kempton Park, Stellenbosch, Pinetown, East London, Brits, Mmabatho, Witbank, Vereeneging, Pietersburg, Parow, Potchefstroom, Alberton, Florida, Wadeville, Westville, Bloemfontein, Olifantsfontein, Northcliff, Onderstepoot, George, Benoni (straight outta), Saldanha, Grahamstown, Klerksdorp, Louis Trichardt, Mondeor, Medunsa, Mosselbaai, Wellington, Upington, Umlazi, Rustenburg, Middleburg, Newcastle, Braamfontein, Richards Bay, Honeydew, Empangeni, Alice, Boksburg, Caledon, Vanderbijlpark, Malmesbury, Tzaneen, Strand, Greytown, Witrivier and Umtata.

Phew, ons est galore, né?

1. So when do we most 'damage', well, last year November was the busiest month and this year it's March (but I suspect this will change as the year goes on).
2. Thursdays and Tuesdays are the busiest days of the week, especially during between 9am and 2pm.  BUT, most of us (67%) spend less than 30 seconds on the site --- then 10% of use spend at least an 1 hour a day.

What do we use to get on 75:

1. 65% use windows
2. 16% on Mac
3. 19% (Linux, symbian)

What browsers:

1. Firefox (43%) is still kicking Internet Explorer (36%)
2. Safari, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Opera and Camino

An interesting but not so important note is that: 90-95% of us come into 75 directly, without being refered from another site.

Popular search engine is Google, then Windows Live, AOL and Yahoo, and the following are popular phrases, boobs is still on the list, :-(

1. 2007
   
   1. Lucky dube
   2. Photography
   3. Bongiwe Walaza
   4. Mantsho
   5. Thando Zamxaka
   6. Boobs
   7. 75
   8. Ntjapedi
   9. Inkomazi
   10. Eskamel
2. 2008
   1. photography
   2. bongiwe walaza
   3. journal
   4. 75.co.za
   5. 75
   6. marapyane
   7. maphungubwe
   8. login
   9. boobs
   10. khumbelo

Who else, brings people here (Mad respect and ta!):

1. Osiris
2. Talking to K -- blog not running any more, ;-(
3. Amatomu
4. Photoblogs
5. Studio83
6. HIPPnotic -- ta for tequila shots!
7. Facebbok
8. Findsa
9. Jova
10. makhaya.org
11. mokokoma.co.za
12. fluffydice
13. Media Update

I think it's imperative that I do drop 75.Gamma by end of this month -- and we begin planning for more 'get togethers' -- I think, there is something special here, can't put my finger on it, but it's there.

To another day, week, month, year, dare I say decade? --- Mad love, respect to everybody and for the 'Graphers for blessing us with ill, dop(dot)e/r, fantastic, snap(')d and beautiful photography.

Oh, I apologise for not staying forever last night, the flu was starting to act up --- I had to nurse it.

More sunsets, (looking at Daniel, good to meet you fella, now that the ice is broken, we can get down and do more), ;-) --- Getting a phone call from Rudzani and Makhaya, was without a doubt, beautiful.

1ove, most definately.