I’m ready to celebrate the first anniversary of my website in less than four weeks with you. Without you this site would be nothing, what good is a blog that no one reads, that no one comments on ? I would like to tell you more about yourself, as stupid as it sounds – I took a long glance at my sites stats and will present some interesting figures, believe me.
My readers love firefox, 54.7% of you are using Firefox with another 2,6 using Mozilla or beta versions of the upcoming Firefox 2.0 browser. The Internet Explorer makes it to 34.1% and Opera to 4.2%. The large number for Internet Explorer comes mostly from search engines, if you are a visiting my site regularly you most likely are using Firefox.
85.5% are using a Windows operating system, 8% Linux and 4.7% Mac Os. Most are using Windows and I do not see that this will be changing in the near future. I plan to buy a new pc at the end of this year and this one will solely run on either free bsd or a linux distribution. I will create a blog about it, my steps into the Linux world and write about all the problems and solutions I have faced.
Most of you stay between 0 and 30 seconds, reading one article I presume but about 5% of all visitors stay more than 30 minutes on my website. Not sure if they are simply forgetting to close it or are really using my website though ;).
I would like to remind everyone that the Ghacks First Anniversary Competition is still running. To sum it up: Write an article, I publish it, the best three articles recieve a paypal payment of 50$, 30$ and 20$. This competition ends the day before the anniversary which is 2. October 2006.

Anniversary coming up, need suggestions
I would be on of the 5%, discoverd your site a few days ago and been browsing allot trough it, you’ve good some good article’s.
And congratulations on your anniversary =)
Happy Anniversary Ghacks !
:)
Happy Birthday!
I come here from my RSS reader (feedreader)usually, so I guess that makes me an IE user (even though I use FF all the time). Maybe your FF user numbers are higher than you think…
The same situation with BomboChipolata. I use GreatNews, so my visits are logs as IE, but I use FF. Anyway: Happy Aniversary! And good luck with the other blog you have in mind. I will stick to this for long time.
Happy Anniversary!
I found your log a few days ago and I have enjoyed perusing it. Thank you for your information :D Please keep up the good work.
Cheers…
I’ve Been a regular visitor since day 1,congrats on yr 1st anniversary Martin !
Good to read you’re having a go with LINUX,why wait until you’ve got a new pc ? Dump the windoze & do it now !!
I have been a reglar visitor of your site since the first month. I remember the old website interface and all. What new thing are you going to implement on your anniversary???
Happy Anni! Keep up the good work, gHacks is the first feed in my aggregator…..I find your site to be very useful.
wohoo for ghacks :D
WOW. Thanks a lot guys, it is nice to read so many good replies to our anniversary.
About the new things: This is indeed a good question, do you have something special in mind that I could offer ? Will think about this for myself..
One thing that I’am able to reveal now is that there will be ghacks shirts.. I know, maybe not that appealing to most of you but still, I will wear them all the time, hehe.
Happy birthday dears!
Oh, and I am your average Windows and Firefox using gnome, that has already submitted a post…
Now, give me the money!
(yes, it’s a gun, I’m not THAT happy y’know)
I’ve just found your site and I’m finding it very useful and informative already. Thanks for the cool articles and congratulations on your one year anniversary.
Wow, happy birthay GHacks!
This site is one of the best around.
I like the simple design.