Two top 5′s to start off 2010.

The top 5 most read articles from 2009 (i.e. the ones posted in 2009 and read in 2009):

1. Ubuntu 8.10 connect to Cisco VPN through vpnc
2. Nagios – how to determine the name of a service in Windows
3. Ubuntu 8.10 installation – GRUB error 18
4. Firefox equivalent of Internet Explorer’s “Every Time I visit the Web page”
5. Cursor keys not working in Ubuntu 8.10 VMWare client

The top 5 most read articles in 2009 (i.e. the ones posted any time that were read in 2009):

1. Ubuntu 8.10 connect to Cisco VPN through vpnc
2. Kensington Bluetooth 2.0 under Windows Vista 64-bit
3. Nagios – how to determine the name of a service in Windows
4. Ubuntu 8.10 installation – GRUB error 18
5. Blackberry desktop crashes when reading Outlook calendar

The Kensington Bluetooth article was written in October 2007, but still accounts for almost 11% of the total page views in 2009.

Some more random statistics over 2009:

• We had 16,928 page views in 14,094 visits (up about 300% over 2008)
• Over 80% of our traffic came from search engines, with Google accounting for 78%
• The highest referral came from the Nagios community website
• Firefox was used by 58% of the visitors, IE by 31% and Chrome by 5%.
• Windows was used by 67% of the visitors, Linux by 28% and Macintosh by 4% (iPhones were #4 with 0.15%!).
• The browser language setting was English for 83%, German for 2.6% and French for 1.6% (Guten Tag and Bonjour!)

2009 saw a big growth for Automation Adventures (about 300% more visitors and pageviews). Hopefully this trend will continue in 2010!

Happy New Year and thank you all!