Sith Lord is Visitor 10,000!

Yes indeed, I'm sure it can't have failed everyone to notice that The Colonel's Eagle has received its 10,000th visitor. I'm pleased to announce that the nefarious SITH APOLOGIST has won the much sought after prestige of being the 10,000th* visitor and the coveted prize that goes with it.

The apologist of all Sith arrived on Sunday August 13th at 14:29. He stayed for a whopping 2 hours 47 mins reading 17 pages, most likely containing material he missed during his long absence recently.

Be not envious, as this would only lead you down the Sith's dark path (and forever will it dominate your destiny) and instead; join me in congratulating Sith Apologist as he wins a genuine United States Special Operations Command lapel pin (pictured left), identical to the worn by myself and US Special Operators on off-duty civilian clothing.

The Colonel's Eagle has grown exponentially since its inception and has many frequent returning visitors. Stick around folks and let's see if YOU can be visitor number 20,000 for which the next prize will be up for grabs.

*he was actually visitor 9999. A random Yank who didn't read the site regularly and was only here to find Spiderman stuff was 10,000. A French dude was 10,001 but all French are disqualified from participation for being a shower of wankers. The closest hitter was thefore the Apologist.

Figures for May

Well it appears that The United Kingdom snuck ahead there for a while. I wonder how long that will last?

The Firefox Browser has received a whopping 48% support since the introduction of an "optimised for Firefox" button. Strangely for a time earlier in the month, this page did not load correctly in IE, which is at 51% of browser shere.

They're still some wacky visitors to this blog, a Macuser asked Google for "posted trailer full episode gay military"?

Other popular hits are from searches using:

• Rogue Trooper
• Mission: Impossible 3
• Superman Returns
• Marscoc
• Spiderman
• Myagi wisdom
• Marvel Movies
• Diamondquest
  

A Norwegian asked Google.no "schmidt und bender test"
and finally, disgustingly a Liverpudlian was seeking "teenage shags" and was directed here.

About 40% of the most recent hits have to do with Sin Episodes: Emergence so I'm off to download it now.

1000 Hits in 24 Days!

Visitor 5000 hit on April 1st but visitor 6000 hit on Monday night! I'm not going to bother congrat- ulating them or thanking them because they're French. Still, it's an impressive statistic. So much so that I'm not even going to bother giving a damn about visitor 7, 8. or 9000 but a prize will be given to visitor 10000!* or the closest visitor after that, that I can actually identify and contact. At this rate I'll need it in about 6 weeks LOL.

The pie chart figures show a dramatic and disturbing downturn from visitors here in Ireland but increased visitors from every other corner of the planet and the absence of visitors from the evil empire of Unknown Country is noted.

Good news on the browser front IE is down to 51%, Firefox at 38. Safari has dramatically risen to 6% while the dregs are shared between Mozilla, Netscape and Opera.

As for what brings people here:

• marsoc
• gladiatrix
• "schmidt & bender"
• Spiderman 3 teaser
• adventures of briscoe county
• secnav donald winter

A google for "sentences for cathoilc priests" found a random comment from Cubaboy.

I'm curious as to why someone in Information Systems, U.S. House of Representatives in Washington would come here too look at info on the Thunder Chickens. Maybe they were looking for info on the most recent Osprey mishap the other day ago involving the Chickens themselves. Don't worry lads I won't be reporting that another one dropped out of the sky. Only positive spin on the military here :D

Finally, a big hello to all my readers in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio (or at least the one who keeps coming back).

*Before you all start clicking incessantly after 9900, I'll be resetting the counter or not counting more than 10 individual non-consecutive visits within a 24hour period and/or more than 1 consecutive visit at a time interval less than 30 minutes in length. Meaning you can't just sit there and refresh the page.

New statistics and visitor 5000!!

Well I haven't published my figures for a while and I guess this is a good time as any even though there's nothing much to report. Almost the entire United States have been searching for the Spiderman 3 teaser poster, the X-Men 3 trailer, infomation on MARSOC and the Osprey all of which I covered in depth here.
All the perverts seem to have migrated here insted according to Cubaboy himself.

I did get one search for "sizemore prosthetic" which obviously linked a result to an older article and one for "multiple orgasms" which bizzarely brought someone here as did "last neighbours episode"??

I'm not going to publish browser share figures as the dominance of IE6 is too depressing and upsetting.

Elsewhere though, this caught my eye while researching bird-flu. You know you're truly famous when you do a common search for something and your own photograph appears somewhere you didn't put it.

Congratulations to the person in Santa Ana, California who on Apr 1 2006 at 7:59:01 pm GMT became visitor # 5000 after clicking to come here following a search for the "schmidt & bender 3x12 variable power day scope". Congratulations: you've won a prize. Reply here to redeem it.

Visitor 3000 you've won!

I just got Visitor 3000 An American in Gaffney, South Carolina. Leave a comment to claim your prize.

Situation Report Jan 2006

Well first of all greetings and welcome to all the people who are now reading this from www.irishblogs.ie and www.planetoftheblogs.com. They basically aggregate the latest posts from all submitted blogs created or maintained by people from or in Ireland, which I'm sure is handy for folk with a broad range of interests. As well as that I was listed on the Blogger.com start page on Jan 5th which earned me a few hits. Anything that makes me more famous and gets me more attention is good yes?

I got an E-mail at the weekend telling me that I've not published statistical data in over two months! Since that's one more E-mail asking me to publish data than E-Mail's asking me not to publish data, here it is:

Here's the Country Share graph for the last 100 visitors. The US (including quite a lot of hits from all branches of the military) has taken the lead and responsible for almost half my hits, Ireland and the UK hold exactly a quarter of all hits each.

Firefox has risen in popularity from 28.57% in November to 30% as of today.

I was also asked what I was currently watching, reading or playing, and told that other blogs have that information updated regularly on them, so I've added all that data to the sidebar to your right.

I'm told that 2500 hits in less than 4 months is very good and is probably attributed to my popular topics which show up in search engines. Some visitors so far this year arrived by putting the following terms into their search engines:

• how much does a whopper cost
• "my dad is bruce lee" lyrics
• mummy iii (someone in Peru)
• hans zimmer
• xxx whopper
• Hemel Hampstead (Herdfordshire Co.Council still seem to be researching Hemel)
• Ed Harris
• Marsoc (the new US Marine Corps Special Operations Command)
• eminem - feck (my sentiments exactly, but I'd have said "Eminem - Fuck")
• picture of a colonel (I'm sure they found what they were looking for- Remember: Signed Photographs of me are available on request)
• cjcs pete (He's General Pace to you sonny)
• rachel mcadams
• padjo junkbox (must have picked up on a comment left by Cubaboy)
• ciaran creedon (you forgot to bookmark didn't you)
• peanut butter girlfriend dead
• my ipod has frozen after being dropped
  
• underworld evolution walther (Selene's gun is a Walther P99 with a stainless steel slide, a gorgeous weapon, but I prefer the matt black James Bond version which I carry as my personal sidearm- the benefit of being on detached service)
  

Most amusing is that someone in Lancashire, England came here to find where Hemel was by asking google: where is hemel hampstead.

There's been almost a two dozen hits from various states in the US with variations on searches for the theme for E-Ring and the X-Men 3 trailer, obviously hot stuff, and disturbingly a Student at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland (where Colonel Creedon himself earned his commission) came here to learn about the New Secnav!

Here's the best one however: For some bizarre reason I can't possibly figure out was the American looking for "johnasson panties". I'm left wondering did he just want a picture or the actual items themselves? Well I'm sorry mate; Scarlett didn't leave them here last night so she must have taken them with her this morning...

I'M BACK

Miss me? I was away for a few days of meditation before the Christmas rush, to re-energise myself. It's all go now!

Congratulations to the unknown Canadian who was visitor number 1000 a few days ago!

More facinating statistics

Someone mentioned last week that I didn't publish any visitor infomation to "The Colonel's Eagle" for last week. This is basically because I didn't intend it to be a regular feature, but here it goes for this weeks visitors.

As you can see there's been some hits from such far off lands as Finland, Qatar, Singapore, Korea (South) and several hits from a number of South American countries.

Sith Apologist demanded browser details, as he "did his bit" for Firefox. I think he certainy did as Firefox has risen from 5% to 28.57% of the type of browser that people used to access this site last week. Various incarnations of IE still naturally have the lions share at 63.26% the remainder is divided between Netscape and Safari. Mozilla and Opera have vanished.

And yes, the US Military visits here have increased...

To tired to title this

Well thankfully the Cork Guiness Jazz Festival is over so I guess it's time to sober up and get back to it here.

It 's facinating the difference a week can make to a site's traffic, as evidenced by this new chart.

The UK has lost it's lead in visitors and is just slightly behind Ireland, but I've a lot of 'fans' in the US. (Admittadly I just came up in generic searches for Stargate, Star Wars, Marine Corps etc.)

I've even been vistited from the French!!! :O

Sunday, A Day of Rest.

This graph shows distribution of visitors to "The Colonel's Eagle".

As I'm still in the recovery stages of my 30th Birthday celebrations, I've just been taking it easy looking at some of my visitors statistics to this page today and I've found a few intresting things I'd like to share with you all.

Firstly, an 'unfortunate' 88% of surfers are using IE to browse, 5% Firefox, Safari 2% and the remaining 5% is shared between Opera, Mozilla and Netscape.

Of greater intrest is who is reading this. Well naturally, I know most of the people here, but what about the poor unfortunate people who unsuspectingly find themselves here?

A Canadian visitor was brought here when he asked Mysearch.com "what is the name of the muppet eagle". Another Canadian surfer asked Google "to others before the google folks fix this" as a seach term and he was to the Smurfs post.

An American in Denver, Colorado asked google to find him "colonel war eagle". The "War eagle" is a rare variation of the Colonel's rank insignia (in my logo at the top) where the head of the eagle is facing towards the arrows it's carrying. I suspect he's a collector of militaria like me.

Someone in Dublin did a google on"ciaran creedon" and was naturally brought here, obviously someone who misplaced the URL, remember to bookmark folks!

Someone in Atlanta, Georgia did a 'search.people.com' on Colonel Oliver North and a day later a countryman of his in somewhere called East Wenatchee, Washington googled the term "oliver north said i am innocent". Both were brought to my Oliver North post.

I became apprehensive when I saw that someone from the United States Government Centre for Disease Control in Stone Mountain, Georgia came here from another blog but what really got my attention was the two hits on Thursday last from, someone working for the 347th Communication Squadron of the United States Air Force who came here via a masked path so I can't tell what they wanted, or if they found it :-O

I'm off now to record Episode VII of 2IGTV a special bumper episode since it's been so long since the last one.