Foto-Biz.com: 3 Years Later

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 31. March 2011 - 17:53

I started http://foto-biz.com 3 years ago in April 2008. I only “advertised” (made public) the website after writing 25 posts.

  • Mar-2011: 15,000 people
  • Redesigned the website three times
  • 923 posts in 3 years → 307 posts per year

I started http://foto-biz.com to do something different, but the “monster” grew. I spend on average 8 to 10 hours per week, writing, maintaining, updating the website. It's not just the writing and posting, it's also all the other maintenance like backups, keeping up with the security…

For Mar-2011:

  • I received 77,921 emails! Of which 75,661 were spam! Between the mail server and my email program, they've caught 75,592 spam emails or 99.92% of the spam! The rest is the good old delete key.
  • http://foto-biz.com was attacked 836 times in Mar-2011 alone. That's almost 27 times per day! Nobody broke in (I'm knocking on my desk as I say that). And no I'm not gloating, those are just my stats.
  • 4,585 searches. Most people look around and click around. Only 17.5% of the visitors use the search. Maybe it's because that the website is so well organized with the categories? Or I'm doing something wrong. I could use the “cloud tags” but I would be seriously penalized by Google for too many links.

What computer do people use to view http://foto-biz.com

Percentage
Windows 63.9 %
Macintosh 24.5 %
Mobile 6 %
Linux 4.9 %
BlackBerry 0.2 %
Java Mobile 0.1 %

Mobile is iPhone, iPad, and Google Android

What people use to view http://foto-biz.com:

Percentage
Firefox 33.2 %
MS Internet Explorer 22.9 %
Safari 18.5 %
Google Chrome 13.4 %

Where visitors come from:

  1. US
  2. Italy
  3. Canada
  4. Poland
  5. Netherlands
  6. Germany
  7. Russian Federation
  8. Australia
  9. France
  10. United Kingdom
  11. Denmark
  12. Brazil
  13. Belgium
  14. Singapore
  15. Finland
  16. Switzerland

and many others including Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nepal and Nicaragua.

Both, the US military and the FBI are regulars on http://foto-biz.com What surprises me the most is: why I'm so popular in Italy?