Interesting, I guess you probably can pick me out of the crowd as I'd bet I'm the only opera user. Poal name drop loved that part and thanks for it.
No, you're not the only Opera user. ;-)
I use Opera sometimes, but mostly on mobile lately. I most often use Firefox, but Opera does get used - and is pretty much what I always use on mobile. So, no. But, I know where you live - so I could probably dig that out and check IP addresses and try to geolocate them. I'm way too lazy for that - though it'll narrow it down automatically, depending on where I look.
Also, there other actually other Opera users besides us. Opera is 4th most popular and Opera Next is 5th most popular. (I'm not even the only Opera Next user.)
Poal accounts for something like 7ish% of my traffic.
It's fucking amazing how much traffic the site gets - for what it is. I'm baffled that folks read it AND read it as frequently as they do. People sometimes spend over an hour there. The time measurements are fuzzy, however. I don't REALLY know when they leave - so the stats only count those who view multiple pages.
Stats are always a bit fuzzy and unrefined. I don't feel like doing the analytics thing from Google. So, I have to deal with the things available. I do love me some numbers, however.
Honestly I'd love to have better analytics here. However I am very averse to using anything google if I can avoid it. I know you don't venture out of your subs much so now is a good a time as any to mention we might be starting a podcast for the site. I'd be willing to bet you'd be a pretty cool guy to have on. This weekend should be the first one and if I can get my shit together server wise it'll be hosted on a private vps. Maybe have a listen it'll be announced on poal when it happens. Wish me luck.
Good luck and look into Piwik. I think they changed their name to Motomo, or similar.
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