Blogoversery!

It's been a year! Our first real post (the first with food in it) went up exactly one year ago!

Since then, we have participated in numerous blog events, becomming more or less regulars on Paper Chef, as well as full-blooded daring kitcheneers (both bakers and cooks). Jenny even won Paper Chef with this recipe!

We've also learned a lot of new stuff, most memorable to us is the art of making and lovingly devour macarons, how to put our ice cream maker to good use and the virtues of steaming over boiling *insert favorite food stuff here*.

In total we racked up 132 posts during the year, which is about one every three days (!), much due to vigorous posing in the beginning. Curiously enough, there's a negative correlation between the number of posts in a month and the number of visitors in that month: the more posts the fewer visitors. Probably has something to do with the vigorous posting in the beginning and the brand build-up over time :-)

Since we didn't add Google Analytics until a bit later we don't have statistics for the whole year, but on the other hand, we didn't have many visitors in the beginning either, so just think of this as one years worth of statistics!

We had 2,539 absolute unique visitors, which is more than we ever dreamed of achieving, thank you all, and especially those of you who actually return! That some just drop by for a short visit never to return again is evident from the fact that we had a grand total of 3,857 visits, so some of you had to return to make those two numbers agree.

Some people got to our blog by searching for something, and if you typed "black cherry ice cream recipe" in the Google search field, you're really trend sensitive, that's our top search phrase. Weirdly enough, you don't end up on the most popular page (excluding the front page) with that search phrase. The most popular page was Berries in fizzy jelly.

For a long time, our typical visitor was a Swede running Firefox on a Windows machine, but for the whole year, Americans are now more numerous than Swedes. Still running Firefox on a Windows machine though. The year has also seen some technological breakthroughs as well, some people reached our blog on their iPhones, one even through a Playstation 3! (If you have any experience viewing the blog on a small (hand held) device, please let us know if it looks awful, or at least if it looks awfuller than other similar sites.)

So, there you have it! Happy blogoversery to us, and please come again (both you, our esteemed visitor, and blogoverseries)!

The neighbor of the beast over for tea

Today, we have had 777 absolute unique visitors!

Since 666 is the number of the beast, 777 (and 555 as well) have to be the neighbor of the beast. Being a bit of a geek, I decided to have tea with Phil, Prince of Insufficient Light and Ruler of Lower Heck to celebrate. I'm so glad I'm not sharing slow-corporate-cubicle-death with Dilbert, but then again, slaving away in academia for peanuts isn't all it's cranked up to be either... :-)

New record!

Wow, I turn my back for two days, and the “absolutely unique visitors” counter jumps over 300 by a good margin. Wednesday's record peek of 45 visits probably helped! The old visits record of 22 was actually no less than doubled!

We'll have to put in some ads to cash in on y'all! :-)

New Layout!

So, we finally got too tired of the old brown layout, and decided to lighten things up. Hope you like it, we even got ourselves a little deer!

Absolute(ly) Unique Visitor(s)

Yesterday, our all-time “Absolute Unique Visitors” counter over at Google Analytics passed the 200 mark! Our typical visitor is still living in Uppsala and uses Firefox on a Windows machine.

Also, yesterday was when our absolutely unique real life weekend guest left, leaving a larger void than we would have thought. We had the pleasure of watching this distinguished gentleman while his humans were away. His name's Whisky, and he's the kindest and sweetest cat I've ever met.

Jubilee

On Wednesday, February 25th this blog was visited by its 100th “absolute unique visitor” according to Google Analytics! Yay! Go us! :-) Our typical visitor runs Firefox on a Windows computer in Uppsala, Sweden... wait a minute, that's Jenny and me! I guess we attract a lot of people “just like us”... in a kinda' eerie way. :-)

Anyhow, thanks for all the traffic, even if no one comments, we still know we're being read, and that's what really counts!