Twin powers

The kittens are resting between bouts of mischief.

WordPress April round-up

WordPress has published some statistics for April:

• 240,494 blogs were created.
• 281,729 new users joined.
• 2,533,704 file uploads. (Y’all use the new uploader a lot more.)
• About 740 gigabytes of new files. (Estimated, better number next month.)
• 317 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. (Compare to last time we published transfer numbers.)
• 3,258,032 posts and 1,330,355 new pages.
• 5,775,721 comments.
• 4,903,485 logins.
• 655,178,604 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 408,359,440 on self-hosted blogs. (1,063,538,044 pageviews total across blogs using our stats system. We broke a billion!!)
• 63,730,680 pageviews in RSS feeds.
• 884,208 active blogs, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
• 152,005,525 unique people visited WordPress.com-hosted blogs.

Random facts:

• About 30% of pageviews go to blogs with their own domains.
• 43% of pageviews to permalink pages.
• 30% of pageviews go to blogs in languages other than English. The most popular? Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian.
• 63% of our visitors were from outside of the United States.
• About 93% of pageviews were to people not logged in.
• People logged in somewhere using OpenID 84 thousand times.
• Blogs using the Digg3 theme got 5.26% of total traffic.
• There were 475 posts made via the Atom API (234,831 with XML-RPC).
• We sent 3,761,059 emails.

So many of our stats fall along 70/30 lines it’s scary.

Swim workout May 7

LotStreetWiz very nicely woke me up at 6:00 with coffee and a snack, then dropped me off at the pool.

Approximate workout in 25-yard (22.5m) pool:

• warm-up: 3 x (50 yards breast stroke + 50 yards front crawl) = 300 yards
• 3 x (100 yd. breast stroke + 100 yards front crawl with pull-buoy) = 600 yards
• three-position sculling with pull-buoy: 50 yd.
• cool-down: 2 x 50 yd. side stroke: 100 yd.

Total, 1050 yd. (945 m)

Worked on cardiovascular stamina, smoother stroke in crawl.

The leaves of the chestnut trees are now bigger than my hand. I saw a grey pigeon with two white tufts of feathers over its eyes.

After that I had breakfast, dropped in at Autodesk (formerly Alias|Wavefont), and took the streetcar home to get my computer working. I added a one-mile walk at the end of the streetcar ride.

Then in the evening it’s an hour of Pilates.