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Girlswithguns.org Turns OneLight the candles, and wrap the presents! One year ago this weekend, girlswithguns.org was launched upon an unspecting Internet. So though that I'd take a look at our visitors over the past 12 months - we can see you, y'know... Okay, maybe not see, but we can at least get certain information about you: where you've come from, what pages you visit, that kind of things.
In total, almost 7Gb of data has been requested, by the more than 50,000 surfers who have crossed our doorway. The exact number is uncertain, in part because I accidentally zeroed the visitor counter back at the start of September. :-( Since then, it's been a little over 33,000 in the past six months or so. Now, we're getting round about three hundred visitors per day, and if we keep that up for the next year, we'll be looking at 100,000 for the upcoming year, double the current estimated total.
Most of you tend to look at three or four pages per visit, though records are only kept for that on a month-by-month basis. Perhaps surprisingly, Europe supplies most guests: the GMT+1 timezone represents almost 30% of all visitors. GMT-5 (East Coast USA) is next, with GMT-6 (Middle USA) and GMT (Britain) in third and fourth.
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Service ProvidersAOL - 9% Roadrunner - 6% Cox - 3% Comcast - 3% Adelphia - 3% T-dialin - 3% Rima-tde - 2% How do you get here? For most people, the answer is through Google. The various branches (mainly .com; .de, .ca, .uk and .fr also contributed) brought twice as many people here as the next biggest referrer, Yahoo's search engine. Third, bizarrely, was a bulletin board to do with Boston music, called thenoiseboard.com - if anyone can shed any light on why, I'd be fascinated to find out, since I couldn't locate any trace of us there. They even beat our other pop culture venture, trashcity.org, which was fourth.
Three places which have given us direct links, were all quite close together. Darksites.net just came out ahead (1,097 requests), with alex-in-wonderland.com (991) and karatechics.com (828) close behind. Our thanks go to all three for their support.
Of particular interest are the terms you put into search engines which brought us up - yes, we can even see those! The clear winner here was "girls with guns", which brought over 2000 people here, almost three times as much as the second place entrant: "girls and guns". In third was "gun girls". Are we perhaps detecting a pattern here? Once we get past those generics, and also eliminate other sites (Karatechics, Jolly Roper) which we refer to, here are the top dozen searches:
- Chopper Girls
- Barbarian Queen
- Gladiatrix
- Toughwoman
- Nemesis 4
- Karen MacDougal
- Witchcraft X
- Underworld Guns
- Policewomen
- Aeon Flux
- Rosemary Vandenbroucke
- My Wife Is Gangster
There's a bunch of surprises here, not least the leader. I have no idea at all why "chopper girls" is so popular. On the rest of the list, it seems a combination of what people search for, and how rare information is about it. While one imagines more people would be looking for, say, "Lara Croft" than "Witchcraft X", the former returns 1,090,000 hits on Google, the latter only 886. Our Tomb Raider review will be somewhere in those million-plus sites; our Witchcraft X review is the first thing listed, at time of writing.
I'm always intrigued by the less obvious items that bring people to our doors. As a random selection, here's what some of the past 100 visitors have been looking for: "Ricci miscast", "Diva police", "women wrestling", "women in combat Israel", "Kill Bill O Ren death pic", "vampire with guns", "Annie Oakley gun", "Tomoko Watanabe trading card", and the somewhat mystifying, "cats with guns".
Finally, once we've lured you in, what proves the most popular? Here's the top twenty pages on the site, excluding administrative ones like the links and contents pages.
- Women Who Kick Butt box-set
- The Sidaris Zone
- Gun Girls
- The Arena - old vs. new
- Hell in the Cell
- Anna Nicole Smith double-bill: Skyscraper and To the Limit
- Nemesis 4
- Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
- Sweden's Princess Victoria Shows Off Combat Skills
- Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
- Cape Fear: Action heroines, comic-book style
- Barbarian Queen
- Amazons
- Hit Lady
- Big Boobs Buster
- Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers
- Gladiatrix
- Amazons and Gladiators
- Wrestling Queen
- My Wife is Gangster
Similar rules seem to apply here; the competition on most of these entries is a lot less severe than for the big blockbusters. One additional factor is that newer pieces have obviously had a shorter time to accumulate hits. It'll be interesting to see, this time next year, how things have changed, if at all. We'll update these lists then - so remember, we're watching you... :-)
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