hathix.com’s second birthday & year in review

hathix.com Tá críochnú suas a 2ú bliain ar an saol. Mar a tháinig chun bheith traidisiún, Tá mé ag déanamh blog post béim ar gach rud déanta agam le bliain anuas agus ag cur le breathnú ar cad atá i ndán don bhliain seo chugainn.

Check out na bliana seo caite recap – an chéad uair riamh – agus lean mé isteach i roinnt stats agus nuacht ón mbliain sophomore hathix.com 's.

Na himeachtaí móra

Ba bhliain seo caite mo bhliain a chruthú, nuair a d'fhorbair mé hathix.com agus na bogearraí a bhaineann (apps agus cluichí.) This year I narrowed my focus and worked on a handful of major projects that represent huge upgrades to hathix.com:

• Cabra mobile, the ultimate studying app brought to phones, tablets, and the web
• Baker’s Dozen, a web adventure game and sequel to Sprinkle Safari

Roinnt smaller projects that still deserve mention:

• An online hub for graphing calculator programs (for TI graphing calculators.)
• A simple and powerful home page.
• Further updates to the desktop version of Gabhar.
• More work on the hathix blog.

Let’s take a look at these – but first, some yummy website stats.

Delicious website stats

2012-2013 was a great year for hathix.com. It completely obliterated last year’s totals – it got 11 times as many visitors as last year! Here are some more stats – important, interesting, or just meaningless – for you to chew on.

Ós rud é Feabhra 13, 2012:

• 60,738 cuairteanna (11x as high as last year)
• 133,670 pageviews (9.94x as high as last year)
• Visitors came from 168 tíortha (81 more than last year)
• 19,203 outlinks
• 89,284 nóiméad – nó 62 laethanta – spent on the site by visitors (8.49x as much as last year)

hathix.com’s best day was July 30, 2012, when 634 people visited.

hathix.com has really grown tremendously since last February – back then, it was a rarity to get above 50 hits a day. Now it’s rare for hathix.com to get less than 300.

Some more breakdowns:

• 91% of visitors came from desktop, 9% from mobile
• Top browsers: Chrome (46%), Internet Explorer (25%), Breiseáin Firefox (16%), Safari (12%), Opera (1%)
• Top operating systems: Windows (80%), Mac (10%), Android (5%), Linux (2%)
• Top countries: Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá (56%), Ríocht Aontaithe (5%), Thailand (5%), Canada (3%), Germany (2%)
• Top search engines: Google (43%), Cuardach Íomhá Google (45%), Bing (8%), Yahoo (1%)
• Eochairfhocail is coitianta inneall cuardaigh: mla format, mla format template, ainmhithe chartúin gleoite, box, mla template
• Biggest referring sites: giveawayoftheday.com, google.com, facebook.com, google.co.th, google.com.vn
• Most common local times to visit: the late afternoon and evening: 4-5pm, 8-9pm, 3-4pm, 5-6pm, 2-3pm
• Least common local times to visit: the early morning: 4-5am, 5-6am, 3-4am, 6-7am, 2-3am

Cabra mobile – studying on the go

My biggest project this year was creating a version of Gabhar, my free studying app, for phones and tablets (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc)

I began developing it in summer 2012 and released it in August. I’m going to make a more detailed blog post on Cabra mobile later, but suffice to say it’s been a huge success. It’s gotten 22,051 uses online.

It’s available on Android, iOS, Chrome, Breiseáin Firefox, and pretty much any other platform you can imagine. It’s essentially a web app so you can use it on any device that has internet connection.

Baker’s Dozen – a sequel to Sprinkle Safari

You’ll recall that I spent a lot of time last year developing a web adventure game, Sprinkle Safari. Bhuel, once I’d finished that I really felt like diving back into the world of missing donuts, ainmhithe chartúin, bumbling bad guys, and cheesy dialogues, so I started work on a sequel to Sprinkle Safari, which I’ve dubbed Baker’s Dozen.

I’ve spent a ton of time working on it – I’ve been at it since May – and yet it’s far from completed. That should tell you a bit about how deep I intend to make it. For now, is féidir leat play some sample levels to get a feel for what the final game will be like.

I’ll make another big blog post when the game’s finished. Fan tiúnta.

an blag hathix

I’ve continued work on the hathix blog and made quite a few blog posts. The blog’s been extremely successful and gotten a ton of visitors.

• 12 posts this year
• 56,873 cuairteoirí (not all of these are counted in the hathix.com stats)

The blog’s best month was December 2012, when it received 11,238 views. Its best day was December 10, 2012, when it received 1,090 views!

The top posts:

• MLA template (23,998 views)
• Socraigh na 40+ ainmhithe chartúin gleoite (10,570)
• More cute cartoon animals (8,892)
• 7-Zip (1,076)
• Sprinkle Safari isteach (1,046)

Some other projects

There are always a few side projects I have that I never really publicize. Here are a few I’ve been working on:

• A hub for programs for TI graphing calculators. Here you can download programs to help you with math/science classes or calculator games for boring days in math class.
• An even better home page. This summer I gave hathix.com’s simple home page a serious revamp to look and work even better. Check it out – you may like it.
• More updates to the desktop version of Cabra. The latest version (0.7.0) lets you redeem points you earn from studying for virtual prizes – a great motivator. I’m planning more major releases in the future that integrate more with Cabra mobile.
• A secret project that has absolutely nothing to do with computers or technology. Watch this space.

So in conclusion…

2012-2013, hathix.com’s second year, has been a year of huge growth (11-fold!) and major new projects. I think I did a good job of building off of my previous software/website development and acquiring some new skills in the process.

2013-2014, year #3, is going to be a tough one for me personally as I finish up my junior year of high school, enter senior year, do college applications, and prepare for college. Despite that, I’m still going to spend some time on my favorite hobby, hathix.com. Year #3 will focus on refining existing projects on hathix.com and finishing ongoing projects. I don’t anticipate any major new developments. Other goals:

• More growth – at least twice as many hits as this year
• More marketing – getting the word out about hathix and its blog/software/games.
• More consistent blog posting – at least 2 blog posts per month.
• More diversification – perhaps creating some content that has nothing to do with technology.

Year #2 has really turned hathix.com from a baby to a legitimate website. I’m looking forward to the next year, which promises even better things.