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    Every year I like to do a couple of posts showing some analytics about the visitors to this site

    In this post we will be looking at the searches, the content and the countries that visitors came from


    Content

    Here are the top 25 most visited pages on this site during the year 2012.


    Searches

    Here is a list of the most used search terms, as you can see it is mostly SQL related, this makes sense since most of the content is SQL related

    sqlcop
    ssis interview questions
    sql mean
    operand type clash: date is incompatible with int
    string or binary data would be truncated
    operand type clash: int is incompatible with date
    cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation
    lessthandot
    wizard
    programmer vs developer
    sql 2008 backup compression log
    sp_change_users_login
    bi interview questions
    sql 2000 pivot
    alter column datatype in sql server 2008
    cidaemon.exe server 2003
    lessthandot + sqlserver
    sql server geography
    sql server activity monitor capture data
    ssis delayvalidation
    sql server mean
    annot define primary key constraint on nullable column in table
    mean sql
    msforeachdb
    code katas


    Countries



    Below is a list of the top 25 countries that visitors came from. Not surprisingly the United States is number 1, India is number 2. China is absent from this list, the other Asian country is the Philippines. The percentage are for the top 25 only not for the whole list.

    Country / Territory Percentage
    United States 36.73%
    India 9.39%
    United Kingdom 7.56%
    Canada 3.55%
    Germany 2.80%
    Australia 2.63%
    Belgium 1.78%
    France 1.71%
    Netherlands 1.70%
    Brazil 1.52%
    Italy 1.43%
    Spain 1.39%
    Poland 1.20%
    Sweden 1.20%
    Russia 1.15%
    (not set) 1.07%
    South Africa 1.01%
    Mexico 0.86%
    Turkey 0.84%
    Philippines 0.71%
    Israel 0.70%
    Portugal 0.70%
    New Zealand 0.66%
    Denmark 0.65%
    Switzerland 0.65%
    Total 100.00%

    Here is the breakdown by continent

    Continent Percentage
    Americas 44.84%
    Europe 30.24%
    Asia 18.76%
    Oceania 3.28%
    Africa 1.79%
    (not set) 1.09%
    Total 100.00%

    Cities
    A map of the cities can bee seen below

    Here is the list of the top 15 cities, you can also see those in the map above
    01. London
    02. New York
    03. Bangalore
    04. Chennai
    05. Hyderabad
    06. Sydney
    07. Chicago
    08. Pune
    09. Mumbai
    10. Toronto
    11. New Delhi
    12. San Francisco
    13. Melbourne
    14. Paris
    15. Singapore

    That is all for this post, tomorrow we are going to look at Mobile Devices, Operating Systems and Browsers

    About the Author

    User bio imageDenis has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. Although he worked as an ASP/JSP/ColdFusion developer before the dot com bust, he has been working exclusively as a database developer/architect since 2002. In addition to English, Denis is also fluent in Croatian and Dutch, but he can curse in many other languages and dialects (just ask the SQL optimizer) He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and three kids.
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