Can you tell things are a little different around here? Yes my design bug has struck again, this time with a new theme which is pretty different from my previous ones… but I’m loving this one 10x more!

As well as a new face lift, the about me page has been updated as well as other little snazzy features in the footer (a random selection of 8 blogs I love which changes on page load and the latest music I’ve listened too). I fixed some bugs what existed from the previous theme, in particular the search feature which now 100% works and changed the permalinks to include the date posts were written, so if you’ve previously linked to a post using the old permalink then you’ll get an error page (sorry, but’s a sacrifice I had to do!).

As you can see the theme is rather pastle(y) in color, maybe that’s because I’ve been munching french macaroons since I got here and I can’t get enough of them… pistascio & vanilla are my favourites

So there you have it, a brand new look…. what do you think?

OMFG It FINALLY happened! I’ve had just over 1 Million visitors to my little blog since it opened in 2003 *gasp*. Last night I was writing a post about my stats and it was 700 short of 1 Million, then I lost my post as I closed the window by mistake and now as I’m writing this I have 1,000,367 total visitors and 7 people online right now *waves*.

I wonder who the 1 millionth visitor was

So want to know some interesting statistics?

Along with the 1 millionth+ visitors (and growing), there has been 12,006,641 hits on my blog since August 2006. The majority of my visitors spend on average 18.49 minutes reading my blog, 87.52% are returning visitors and 12.48% are new visitors. 77.83% of my visitors come here directly, and 21.14% come from referring sites (those lovely people who link to me).

The top 20 referrers are:

1. Texan in Kuwait
2. 248am
3. Nonowa’s Nonsense
4. Uaeyah
5. Z District
6. Blackpearlz
7. Spikey Q8
8. Bloboz
9. Dreamy Eyes
10. Njan7
11. Kuwait Style
12. Scarlet Lights
13. UAE Dunes
14. 248pm
15. Calmness
16. Couchavenue
17. Sou-Varne
18. Arabo
19. Swair
20. Shopaq8eya

The top 20 countries visiting my blog are:

1. UAE
2. UK
3. Kuwait
4. Qatar
5. Canada
6. Bahrain
7. Saudi Arabia
8. Lebanon
9. Malaysia
10. USA
11. Germany
12. Sweden
13. Singapore
14. France
15. India
16. Oman
17. Egypt
18. Jordan
19. Hungary
20. Australia

Others (to name a few) include China, Spain, Pakistan, Romania and Czech Republic… so my blog is pretty international ha! How exciting! I’m actually really suprised at the variety of different countries visiting.

I wonder who the person Kitchener, Canada is who spent 18 mins on my blog and has visited over 19 times in July… or what about the person in Massachusetts, USA who spent 11 minutes on my blog and visited 18 times… or even the person in Slough, UK who spent a whooping 55 minutes browsing my blog and visited 75 times this month alone *gasp*.

Pretty interesting… say hi next time you people

I really hope that my blog continues to grow and grow and I really wanna thank you guys out there for commenting AND making my blog popular

Now I wanna ask you all some questions….

What do you HONESTLY think about my blog and what I write?
Would you change anything about it?
What do you HONESTLY think about me, myself… the person behind the blog?

I’m not gonna censor anyone’s comments, you can praise me or insult me… I just want a really honest reaction from my readers, all those 1 Million+ of you

I decided to check my site stats to see how people actually find my site on the net… to my surprise here are the Top 10 keywords

1 naked men
2 lebanese flag
3 leona lewis
4 falling man
5 the falling man
6 allah
7 big butts
8 fernando alonso
9 men naked
10 big butts.com

+ Now, when have I posted naked men? I haven’t seen any :hehe: damn it!!!

+ I do have a thing for Fernando Alonso so that’s ok

+ Big butts? What does my ass have to do with things?

+ The falling man was a post I talked about 9/11 and a photograph of ‘The Falling Man’, Aussie Vogue linked me in their website and I’ve seen numerous other sites link to my website on my post

+ Leona Lewis, sure… I’ve talked about her tons of times

+ Allah? Hmm… no comment

+ Lebanese Flag? That baffles me!

My forum; Ananyah Cafe is 3 years old today! I’m so proud of it :rofl: we started small way back in 2003, then grew to over 500 members, alot became inactive and were deleted, and now we have 200+ members who are regular posters.

I never expected this project of mine to be sucessful, but I’m glad it has been & enshalla the forum will continue to grow!

We have members from all the gulf states, greece, uk, usa, canada, pakistan, austria… to name a few. If you’re interested to join, then click here to register