Comments on: Top South African Blogs

By: NickDuncan

NickDuncan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:27:48 +0000

@griffin who do you host with ?

By: griffin

griffin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:01:20 +0000

Make that 500gb …

By: NickDuncan

NickDuncan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:57:00 +0000

Yup your blog is pretty graphic intensive, and considering your on the top 15 list, you get a sh*tload of visitors which makes sense for a high bandwidth count. myScoop is predominantly text based. But it seems to be doubling month on month…

By: griffin

griffin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:45:20 +0000

Only 2gb? Jislaaik. I klapped 80gb in January.

By: NickDuncan

NickDuncan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:38:50 +0000

@Chris Only around 2 gigs

By: Chris Dzhantov

Chris Dzhantov — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:03:57 +0000

@NickDuncan – Now that the fellow commentators here have posted about exceeding of scoops bandwidth limit … if it is not that big secret how much bandwidth have you used during December ? I was so curious back then

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:35 +0000

@griffin: You don’t need to install anything for Alexa to collect stats on your site, but if you have the Alexa toolbar installed, Alexa will gather stats on every site you visit.

By: NickDuncan

NickDuncan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:26:46 +0000

@Galen Ill be revising it soon enough and will actually put it in an HTML table instead of the picture – I was pressed for time at the moment of posting the article

By: Galen

Galen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:35:22 +0000

Is it possible to get access to a larger version of your Alexa results table? Perhaps it’s just me but it looks a little weather-beaten from here (ie. difficult to read).

Otherwise this is definitly a continuing theme. Keep it up!

By: griffin

griffin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:45:14 +0000

@Mike – sorry for my ignorance concerning Alexa. I still don’t understand what you mean by toolbars or widgets. I have none of those installed, though visiting Alexa and checking out my ranking, I see my site listed as ranking 89,985 internationally and 488 in SA. This, without me ever submitting anything to Alexa, so they must use some other external method.
As far as Feed readers go – you might be right, but in my case where people get e-mail updates via feeds, they only get blurbs or summaries, prompting them to visit the site to get the full story.
As for plainly reading straight from feeds, I have no clue. Your stats concerning Firefox vs IE are interesting. Most of my readers still use IE, alhtough its increasing favourably towards Firefox. 10 years ago 95% used IE. Now, IE constitutes 57% of browsers use, while Firefox is at 24% and Chrome, Safari and mobile making up the remaining smaller percentage.