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I don’t know about you, but my gaming time is pretty limited nowadays. When I do game with others online, I don’t want to join in with a bunch of griefers, cheaters, and immature players. Where then can I look for some like-minded players? Well, here at 40Tech, we’ve got a great community, with many mature commenters and friends. Perhaps some of you would like to do some gaming, in the right environment, and with the right game and platform? If so, let’s set up a time that we can game together.
If you like tech and have something to say about it, we want to hear from you! We’re always looking for new points of view at 40Tech — that’s why we got into this blogging thing in the first place; to share our thoughts, maybe help some people out, and hear what you have to say about it all.
We’ve had some fantastic guest posts from a few of our regulars, recently, and we would love to have enough to feature at least one of you every week. Hell, if you want more exposure to the wonderful world of the web, and maybe the opportunity to chat with the the folks who created some of your favourite software, you might even want to aim for a regular writing gig with us. We can’t pay you, of course — this is a hobby blog man! — but we get good search engine love and have a blast hanging out with our awesome readers.
If you want to write for us, we want to chat with you! Take a read over our guidelines, and get in touch!
The end of the year is fast approaching, which means that it must be time for . . . a year-end list. In this list, we’re going to look at the ten most popular posts of 2010 on 40Tech, based on page views. Please note that these are posts that were published in 2010. Is this a silly exercise, since posts from earlier in the year had more time to accumulate page views? Yep. Is that going to stop us from taking a look at the stats anyway? Nope.
We know that we all like tech, or at least that we recognize the necessity of it. But beyond that, how much do we have in common? If you wonder how you match up with the “typical” 40Tech reader, here are some stats for you to chew on. These numbers are for the last 30 days, and are gathered from Google Analytics.
Nationality
48% of you are from the U.S.A. The next closest is the U.K., whose residents make up 7.2% of the visitors here, followed by Canada, at 6.3%. Australia has 3.2%. Only the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain exceed 2%. Of our U.S. visitors, 8.64% of you are from California, 4.02% are from New York, and 3.66% are from Texas.
The Browser Wars
Chrome has almost caught up to Firefox as the browser of choice among 40Tech readers, but isn’t quite there. Firefox accounts for 33.09% of the visits, with Chrome registering 29.96%. Safari is a distant third at 18.02%, with Internet Explorer at 14.81% and Opera at 1.8%.
Operating Systems
64.77% of you use Windows, while 20.21% of you use Macs. The other operating systems that had numbers worth noting were iPhone (4.2%), iPad (3.92%), Linux (3.58%), Android (2.13%), and iPod (0.52%). (Don’t tell Google that iPhone, iPad, and iPod aren’t actually the names of operating systems). All totaled, mobile devices make up 10.93% of the visits to the site.
Screen resolutions
You folks sure do use a wide variety of screen resolutions, including 1280×800 (16.41%), 1680×1050 (11.17%), 1440×900 (10.98%), and 1280×1024 (10.26). Several other resolutions rounded out the rest of the stats.
Odds and Ends
About 48% of you are using a version (or older) of Flash player that was outdated back in September, and has security vulnerabilities. Check your version, and update if you don’t have the current version.
Most of you use are on a high speed connection, although 12.28% of you are using dial up. To you, we apologize. We don’t test 40Tech on slow connections, so hopefully the site speeds are tolerable.
How do you fit in with the rest of the crew? (And did we miss any exciting stats that interest you? Perhaps screen colors excite you? We’ve got stats on that, too.).
What Do You Want to See More Of?
We’re a bunch of “self-admitted and proud of it” Grown-up Geeks here at 40Tech – and I’m including you lot in that statement as well. We’re all here because we love tech, we love toys, and we love hanging out in a place where opinions are respectfully given and received. Sharing interesting bits of information and learning from each other is what 40Tech is all about – and that’s led me to wondering: What do you want to see more of on 40Tech?
We’ve written a fair bit on Evernote and productivity methods, as well as digital security and interesting hardware and software reviews (both mobile and desktop). What do you want to read more of? What do you guys want to talk about? Drop some suggestions in the comments, or contact us and suggest a post or two. Why do you read us? We really want to know!