Last year a whopping total of 13006 posts went up! That's an average of 1083.83 posts a month and 35.63 posts a day. It's up from 10,090 posts in 2008. I haven't missed a single day posting in the entire year and plan to keep it that way. The total number of posts since the inception of the site on July 20, 2005, is 35,045.
For the year we had 2,565,300 Visits and 5,804,265 Pageviews. That would be 7028 visits and 15902 pageviews a day. That's quite a bit considering there aren't many subsections in the site. Everything new goes up on the front page. Aside from the homepage, what is the most popular thing on MATRIXSYNTH? Synth Babes at 37,629 hits. The most visited posts for the year? From Which the Gristleizer Came at 7573 hits followed by New SEM from Tom Oberheim at 6,112 and Schaltzentale - Incredible Steampunk Modular at 5,554. Since the inception of the site we had a total of 6,679,552 Visits and 13,310,057 Pageviews!
Total Visits:
2009: 2,565,300
2008: 2,010,102
2007: 1,383,340
2006: 513,060
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 6,679,552
Total Page Views:
2009: 5,804,265
2008: 3,865,863
2007: 2,519,689
2006: 912,490
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 13,310,057
As for world domination we are still short a few countries. North Korea is still avoiding me. Click on the map for the full size. Green means someone from that country visited MATRIXSYNTH! Google Analytics is off though. If you look at last year's map you'll see Niger is green while this year it is white.The top visits are as follows:
1. United States 1,061,288
2. United Kingdom 228,943
3. Germany 164,705
4. Canada 147,475
5. France 123,881
6. Italy 87,409
7. Sweden 80,801
8. Netherlands 72,783
9. Japan 59,820
10. Belgium 51,663
And that's it folks. Enough with the numbers. Time to get back to posting synths. I want to end this with a HUGE THANK YOU!!! As I say every year, this site is not about me. It's about synths and what people (YOU and me) are doing with them. Years from now we will be able to look back on a little bit of synth history. Thank you for being part of that. I wish you all one hell of a new decade!
cheers,
matrix
Update: I've been thinking about what I'm most looking forward to in the new year on the synth front. For me it will be building out my eurorack modular and either the Apple tablet, a Windows tablet, or both! There's too much cool software out there that I don't use simply because I don't have a tablet. What are you looking most forward to on the synth front?
I think that world maps proves that americans love synthesizers more than the Germans and the Japanese combined.
ReplyDeleteSome how I think I'm responsible for a good part of the numbers in the Netherlands. I'm here many times a day.
ReplyDeleteWhat were the revenue figures? LOL.
ReplyDeletethanks for providing the world with this blog you are amazing!
ReplyDeletehave a great synth-year matrix
I think 2010 will mark the launch of a major new music production platform - the Apple Tablet. Once all those iPhone music developers port their current apps over to the tablet, and then start adding features, I believe we'll see the same kind of paradigm shift that we saw with the release of the original iPhone.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year matrix,keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteam I the only guy from portugal visiting this site?
Happy new year! Thanks for the great site, and thanks for posting my vids, and all the great vids and pictures that keep me going throughout the day.
ReplyDeleteYep the Apple tablet will rock 2010. I love Matrixsyth.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Matrixsynth!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI'm a sucker for stats, so I definitely appreciated this post. :)
I'm simply looking forward to what might come - Hoping to see at least moving images and sound of an upcoming Kaossilator, Electribe or a Kaoss Pad follow-up, but I'll settle for a still image of whatever is to follow the Kurzweil PC3K. Bring on the Winter NAMM! Counting down the days..
ReplyDeleteI can't get access to blogspot from China so I need to use vpn to do so.
ReplyDeleteWhen I view anything on blogspot it will appear to be a connecton from South Korea while I am in China in fact.
For the same reason I guess maybe there is someone from North Korea viewing this site. Just appeared to be somewhere else.
Happe new year!
Interesting! Thanks Meng Qi.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! Hopefully one day, Meng Qi, China will be a free country! That's what one of the things I'll be praying for in this new year.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! No Finland at the top ten :/.
ReplyDelete@Alan;
ReplyDeleteduh, US is bigger dude.
i am curious how this comes out when calculated over the percentage of the total population of the country.
i bet The Netherlands would be at number 1.
:)
Happy new year and thank you for the GREAT work matrix!
ReplyDeleteRespect from Italy
Yes!!! Matrix... keep on the great work... your blog is really an amazing and inspiring hybrid "data-base"... happy new EAR to you!!! Respect & best wishes for 2010... (Smith)
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