03: Zeitgeist 2009 – 2010

Hello — this is to another beautiful year gone past, yesterday marks three years since we started.  Much respect, love to e-v-e-r-y body coming through, contributing and appreciating the photography: the 'graphers rock!

With that — I shall give what is called the Spirit of the times, here we go, this is going to be long: 'khoka uMoya!

Inside:

• 7466 photographs
• 146 'graphers — rock on!
• 54072 comments on photographs!
• 27726 love on photographs — the rest I'll assume are secretely admired, :)

Popular tags for the period: 2009-April-19th to 2010-April-19th (from the most popular to the least) — the caveat is that this is based on new tags created during the same period:

ko nine, black and white, b&w, caprisel, gold reef city, kyalami estates, contemplations, kunta, coffee bay, thespian, lomography, may day, drill hall, night shot, alter native, anaconda, actors, gauteng province, urban voices, miyela, arts exchange, behind, following distance, kalk bay, ride, origins, back to self, friendship, jazz on the lake, red day, university of the western cape, identity theme, kew, dutchman, lula

All Time popular tags:

south africa, johannesburg, cape town, gauteng, sunset, black & white, light, portrait, theme, clouds, alexandra, b&w, sun, sky, reflection, home, newtown, love, woman, township, beach, village, caprisel, man, self, soweto, beauty, black and white, girl, gold reef city, friends, creative lifestyle, road trip, western cape

Outside:

• Unique visitors: 46,591 — less than last year ;(
• Page views/impressions: 1,155,751 — less than last year (but still pretty cool, that all photographs been viewed at least a million times, I like that :)
• Hits (to those who still need these): 5,413,780

Activity:

• On average 67% of us spend: 11 minutes and 52 seconds; (on the upside: 7.8% of us spend more than one hour here)
• We are here mostly on Tuesdays
• Between 7am and 8pm

How do we get here:

• Direct: 38%
• Referring sites: 38%
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Studio83
  • Osiris
  • StumbleUpon
  • Makhaya
  • Sinah
  • The Unexpected
  • Funnel
  • Kato Devbox
  • Rudzani
  • Mpumelelo Macu
• Via search: 24% (top searches are — at least no sondeza or boobs this time):
  • 75.co.za (huh?)
  • 75 (Yeah, baby!)
  • bongiwe walaza
  • sonia sedibe
  • burgundy fly
  • jimmy flexx
  • lebogang nkoane (stalkers!!!!)
  • sibongile makhaya
  • rusty
  • iintonga (what does this word mean?)
  • khumbelo makungo
  • racist asoka (huh? what is this?)
  • amakrwala
  • praia da rocha co.za

Where do we come from — like the years before, it is always better to give a map to look at:

If we focus on South/Africa (considering most 'graphers are from there) this is where we came from:

Alberton, Alice, Auckland Park, Beacon Bay, Bedfordview, Bellville, Benmore, Benoni, Benmore, Bertsham, Bloemfontein, Brakpan, Bramley, Brits, Bromhof, Bryanston, Butterworth, Caledon, Cape Town, Centurion, Claremont, Cramerview, Doornfontein, Durban, East London, Edenvale, Edgemead, Elandsfontein, Empangeni, Eppingdust, Emelo, Excom, Ferndale, Ficksburg, Fish Hoek, Florida, Fourways, Gallo Mono, Garden View, Garsfontein, George, Germiston, Glenstantia, Grahamstown, Greytown, Hadison park, Halfway House, Harrismith, Hatfield, Hennospmeer, Honeydew, Isando, Jeppestown, Johannesburg, Kempton Park, Kimberley, Klerksdorp, Knysna, Kwa Dlangezwa, Kyalami, Lanseria, Litchenburg, Lonehill, Mafikeng, Mamelodi, Medunsa, Messina, Middelburg, Midrand, Mmabatho, Modderffontein, Mondeor, Monument, Mosselbaai, Ndabeni, Nelspruit, Newcastle, Northcliff, Northway, Oakdale, Olifantsfontein, Onderstepoort, Oudshoorn, Overport, Paarden Eiland, Parkdene, Parow, Paulshof, Phalaborwa, Pietermaritzburg, Pietersburg, Pinetown, Port Elizabeth, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Primrose, Randburg, Richards Bay, Rivonia, Roggebaai, Roodepoort, Rosebank, Rustenburg, Saldanha, Sandton, Sanlamhof, Saxonwold, Secunda, Senderwood, Silverton, Somerset West, Stellenbosch, Stilbaai, STrand, Sun City, Sunninghill, Thohoyandou, Tongaat, Tzaneen, Uitenhage, Ulundi, Umhlanga Rocks, Umkomaas, Umlazi, Umtata, Upington, Vanderbijlpark, Vereerniging, Vorna Valley, Wadeville, Walmer, Welkom, Wellington, Westdene, Westgate, westville, Wierda Park, Witbank, Witkoppen, Witrivier, Witwatersrand, Woodmead and Wynberg.

*phew!

So, to detail All of Africa, I'll list just the countries (in the next years Zeitgeist I'll focus on all of Africa with more details of which cities — alas if you want that too, do let me know, I can always add on to this)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambiqu, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Suda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

What browsers (platforms do we use):

• Firefox (Yay!): 46%
• Internet Explorer: 34%
• Safari: 9%
• Chrome: 5%;
• Opera and Opera Mini: 2% and 1.25% (respectively)
• There is Blackberry, HTC and Samsung (with less than 1%, but they show up)

Mobile Device OSes (1.5% of visits):

• iPhone
• SymbianOS (Nokia I am assuming?)
• BlackBerry
• Windows
• Android

That should do it --- let me know if you need to know more — Somebody suggested we celebrate this:

a braai, a picnic, a drinking, a slaughtering, a something — I am game, let me know what you think we could do. :)

To another year. *toasting the 'graphers and everybody that enjoys the beauty of their work.

this is photography.

1ove, community.