So it's become a habit of mine to post statistics every 3 months and show some of the growth we've had and a review of what we've done. Of course this is exactly halfway through the year and we're on the verge of finishing some new services but it's still a great time to look at what's happening.

So the first thing to take a look at is the growth we've seen in unique visitors. In Q1 we had 4,450 unique visitors total, averaging 1,480, but in Q2 we had 6,700~ total unique visitors with an average of 2,233~ per month. That's almost a 66% increase in traffic. Amazing, especially considering we haven't added much in these last 3 months in terms of new services as we did in previous times. Our hours of viewership is still spread fairly evenly throughout the day, all 24 hours, and is pretty well spread throughout the world as a whole. Top countries, in order, were the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Sweeden, China, Germany, France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

Now some more technical stuff: The search engine spider that crawled the most was Yahoo followed by Google, MSN, and Ask. This is rather interesting because traffic from searches comes from, in order of most to least, Live.com/MSN, Google, Yahoo, Baidu, GoodSearch, and Ask. Speaking of refers, Digg was once again a prominent source of traffic with over 900 uniques in the 3 month period, followed by Stumbleupon with about 100. Individual sites and blogs where we got traffic include UneasySilence, HGANB Forums, Mozila Labs, Download Squad, Scobleizer, and Six Revisions.

Some great news on the browser front, Firefox usage is still the dominant browser in our visitors with 71.2%, followed by IE with 18.4%, Safari with 6.8%, Opera with 2.1%, and a mix of Mozilla, Camino, Netscape, and others for the remaining percentage. Even with Firefox 3's release fairly late in the quarter Firefox 3's usage was around 9% of the 71.2 and IE 8 even showed up with .3% of it's 18.4. As far as OS's go it's about the same as last time. Windows usage actually went down, to 74.7% with the majority being XP users with 36.7%, Vista with 28.2%, and surprisingly 7.9% using ME. The rest was a mix of 98, NT, CE, 2000, 2003, and 'WTF?' 3.xx? Someone's having fun with useragent switcher. Mac usage was 12.8%, all but less than .1% using OS X. Linux distros took up almost 11.5% with the dominating bunch Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora. The rest of the OS makeup was mobiles, unknowns, and spiders.

We haven't been pushing our RSS feeds, still, nor have we been using FeedBurner how we should be but based on unique hits we have around 1,180 subscribers to all our RSS feeds combined, the majority for the main website.

Plans we have for the next 3 months are relatively undecided yet, but we plan to launch soundUp, an updated and fully configured installation of OpenX, for Athena, Flexible Adsystem, complete and push out a major overhaul to imgUp, and add more advanced URL creation to our URL Shortener including bookmarklets, and possibly an API. Plus don't forget that we will be doing live iPhone 3G release coverage on July 11.

It's really amazing to see the growth we've had and I want to thank you, the people reading this, for coming back and in some cases getting involved in the comments. It's great and I hope you keep coming back.