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I didn't know I was famous...

Written by johnleemk on 12:16:37 pm Dec 20, 2005.
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15 year old drops out and whaps Malaysia. (Update, 1 April 2007: this link no longer works. An archived version is available on this site.) I'm not sure whether I should take it as a compliment or insult that Ivy League students are taking time off from their studies to dissect and criticise my personality. Regardless, that was an interesting discussion. I managed to add my two cents at the end.

Something else that's interesting: While Googling stuff about Ops Lallang, I stumbled on this gem.

Quoted from: The Sun
As one Wikipedian, using the moniker Johnleemk, says:

"There are glaring omissions in that almost all the facts included in the article are those positive about Anwar…Not even the allegations of Anwar's opponents, whether true or false, were included in the article…"

Wow. Something I wrote got published in a national newspaper. And not those crappy letters I've written in to Malaysiakini too. (Just one or two examples...) Interesting.


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johnleemk
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Posted at 12:47:14 pm Oct 15, 2005
http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/analog.htm
http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/webalizer.htm

(ignore the lack of pictures)

What, you're lazy to read them? Fine then. Here are some interesting statistics...
  • In the month of October, the average amount of hits (page loads) a day is 983.
  • Since the month began, there have been a total of 13762 hits.
  • The most common ISP used by our visitors is TM Net, followed by Jaring. (Let's ignore all the bots of search engines, shall we?)
  • People from 19 different countries have visited in October alone, ranging from Canada to Malaysia to the US to Singapore to Oman to Japan to Hungary.
  • The most common sites to refer people to this site since it began were malaysia-today.net, haloscan.com (the comments site for limkitsiang.blogspot.com), jeffooi.com, malaysiakini.com and google.com.my.
  • The top three browsers used to access this site were (in order of most pages accessed) Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
  • The three most popular forum topics were (in reverse order) this, this and this.

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johnleemk
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Posted at 4:57:55 am Dec 1, 2005
http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/awstatsnov05.html
http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/webalizer_200511.html

In the month of November, the average amount of hits per day was 1101. We had a total of 33040 hits. The most common browsers are now Firefox, IE and Opera (in that order). We had a total of 521 unique visitors. I'm lazy to elaborate on anything else.
johnleemk
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Posted at 9:38:01 am Mar 5, 2006
Okay, finally updating again. I'm adverse to uploading the stats pages again, so I'll just copy and paste relevant stuff for last month. We got 9212 hits, of which 162 were unique visitors (excluding search engine bots, etc.). Our busiest day by far was 11 Feb 2006, where we got 1351 hits. (I wonder who linked to us, or if all the search engines just started updating their indexes on that day.)

For countries, my bean counters seem to have some disagreement. One claims most traffic is coming from Malaysia, with the rest mostly being from search engines, the UK, Singapore, or US education institutions. Some other countries listed by this fellow include South Africa, Japan, Italy, Canada, and India. The other one puts the bulk of traffic as coming from the US and Australia, with Malaysia far behind (ostensibly with 600 hits, as opposed to 2000 each for the US and Australia). This one also lists the same countries I mentioned, but also has the European Union, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

I have some interesting stats on visit duration. Supposedly 47% of all visitors stop reading after 30 seconds at the most, but 8.8% spend more than an hour on the site (I know I can't be that 8.8%). Another 8.3% spent between 30 minutes and an hour on the site.

The most popular browser of our visitors is Firefox, with Internet Explorer close behind. Opera is a distant third. Some guy with a Mac out there is using Safari, too.

Interestingly, 93% of all visitors directly entered the URL into their browser, or used a bookmark/favorites entry. (This means a lot of people are returning visitors.) 5.5% followed a link from somewhere else (mostly my Blogspot profile, Malaysia Today, my Wikipedia profile, and Vamp's blog. I'm also still getting hits from Malaysiakini, where a letter wrote once linked to here). Of the 1.2% from search engines, the bulk are from Yahoo!, with Google a distant second (Yahoo! has 2/3rds, Google has most of the remainder). Interestingly, there are a couple of hits from AOL France. Strange.

Now, what you're all waiting for...the search keywords people used:
iroatm	6	14.2 %
literature in malaysian schools 3 7.1 %
what do u think malays 2 4.7 %
method of teaching reading in malaysian schools 1 2.3 %
patriotic national song-malaysia 1 2.3 %
the qualities of a best malaysian 1 2.3 %
social contract between malay and chinese 1 2.3 %
what do the malays celebrate? 1 2.3 %
why do we teach literature in malaysian school 1 2.3 %
history of malaysian schools 1 2.3 %
pornografi malaysia 1 2.3 %
lee ming keong 1 2.3 %
http //iroatm.cjb.net 1 2.3 %
statistics reports on malaysian school spm 1 2.3 %
http //www.iroatm.cjb.net/index.php 1 2.3 %
moral values taught in malaysian schools 1 2.3 %
patriotic song at malaysia 1 2.3 %
essays for malaysian schools 1 2.3 %
school sucks 1 2.3 %
malaysian students don t read book 1 2.3 %
the reason for students weak in speaking in malaysian students 1 2.3 %
malay lazy 1 2.3 %
leaving school for moral contributing 1 2.3 %
social contract in malaysia 1 2.3 %
safety in malaysian schools 1 2.3 %
http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/08 1 2.3 %
http //www.iroatm.cjb.net/forums/index.php?fid=7 1 2.3 %
articles on literature in malaysian schools 1 2.3 %
why it is very important for malaysian educational? 1 2.3 %
malaysian curriculum change 1 2.3 %
parliment speaker speech malaysia 1 2.3 %
pornografi of chinese 1 2.3 %
lazy malays 1 2.3 %
johnleemk 1 2.3 %

johnleemk
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Posted at 5:57:16 am Feb 2, 2007
A quick summary of the month of January:

  • We had about 6000 visits to the site; the daily average was about 200 visits
  • The busiest hour is 11PM, Malaysian time (GMT+8)
  • The most popular article was The Death of Malaysia, closely followed by this dreary thing about proxies. The next best performer, Pak Lah: To Resign or Not Resign barely had half the pageviews of the proxy article.
  • The three most-used keywords to find this site on search engines were all names of people; the first was "johnleemk", the second was "siti nurhaliza" (I blame this article), and the third was "nur amalina che bakri" (who I only wrote about once, here).
  • About 60% of pageloads came from people who either bookmarked the site or subscribe to one of the feeds; the rest came from either links or search engines.



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