2008 Miscellaneous Mop-Up

As for big changes in 2009, I don't have too many planned. Not yet anyway.

Expect a few more course design project videos, perhaps no longer opening story links in new windows (only because that seems to be a web standard now) and yes, there might be advertising (contemplating joining an ad network devoted to golf sites).

Unique visitors and page views were up over last year, which is amazing considering the expected traffic drop off after Tiger went on leave. That was compounded by the economic crisis where the markets most tumultuous days definitely impacted visits here (and surely all other non-banking websites).

As always, the strength of this site remains the quality of the comments you all leave. I'm quite lucky to have such a diverse readership and it's always fascinating how many golf industry people are obsessed with comments made. That's a tribute to you all.

Please use this opportunity not to heap glowing praise but to offer any and all constructive criticism you'd like to share to help make this site better. And finally, while there really is no good reason I can think of to share this,  maybe someone out there will get a kick out of knowing this about the GeoffShackelford.com readership...

Operating System Preference:

WinXP 66.08%
MacOSX  14.78%
WinVista 6.6% (ouch!)
Unknown  6.38%
Win2000 2.77%
Win2003 1.56%
Win98  0.51%
Linux 0.48%
iPhone 0.35% (it's a start)
WinNT  0.14%
Win9x  0.1%
WinNT4  0.06%
WinMobile0.05%
Win95 0.05%
MacOS 0.01%
WinME 0.01%
Win310.01%
SunOS  0%
PlaystationPortable  0%
NintendoWii 0%
Playstation3 0%
Symbian 0%
NintendoDS  0%

Browser Analysis

IE6  30.36%
IE7  28.23%
Gecko(Firefox)  23.36%
Safari 9.77%
Unknown  6.37%
Opera9  0.44%
IE5  0.3%
Gecko  0.29%
Gecko(Camino)  0.19%
Gecko(NS7)  0.13%
Chrome  0.13%
KHTML 0.1%
Opera8  0.06%
IE  0.06%
Opera7 0.05%
IE4 0.04%
NS  0.04%
Opera6  0.01%
KHTML(Konqueror)  0.01%
Gecko(NS)  0.01%
Gecko(Phoenix)  0.01%
Gecko(Firebird)  0.01%
Gecko(Galeon)  0.01%