Our Hardworking Servers Thank You

We don't obsess over our traffic numbers like some websites, but we do keep an eye on our stats. And we found some interesting things about 2008:

• We had just about 1m pages viewed, up significantly over 2007, which was our first full year of operation.
• Visitors came from 210 countries, but about 70% were from the U.S. Our largest audience is in New York City, followed by London and Sydney. At the other end of the scale, we had 14 visits from Polynesia.
• Visitors spent over 20,000 hours at the site (a number that's probably lower than reality due to the way it's calculated).
• People searching Google for keywords such as "midlife crisis" were our primary source of new visitors, but "what's in a twinkie" -- where we're the #1 result on Google -- sent over 2,000 visits our way.

And the results of one ad hoc personality test are in: nearly 10% of LifeTwo visitors use a Mac, a higher percentage than you'd expect based on unit sales.

Thanks to everyone who helped make last year a good one, and we're looking forward to a great (rest of) 12009!

--- These statistics-gathering programs don't track anything about you as an individual; they only aggregate the data passed between our reader's browsers and the LifeTwo website. This includes IP addresses (so the stats tools can -- for instance -- determine that people using Comcast in the San Francisco area visited 10,000 times), browser, and operating system.