Welcome to the Statbot. I’m Yuvi, a 17 year old guy, and a stats freak by accident who loves it now. I’ve previously published stats about Engadget, Scoble(Linkblog), Raymond Chen, Matt Cutts, Louis Gray,TechCrunch, Digg & Techmeme(all predating TheStatbot.com) My personal blog is here, and this place is exclusively for the fun stats that I generate often. Expect stats about online “public” behavior of various popular folks on twitter,friendfeed, their blogs, flickr, etc. Also, you’ll see stats about communities - The Digg community, theWikipedia one, the slashdotters, “farkers“, the folks who leave comments at Engadget, those who answer questions on Yahoo answers, the folks who writemaintain Firefox, those who complain at the MSDN forums- the list is endless. Wherever there is a community, I’ll measure it.

Custom Analysis

Also, if you need custom analysis of your own website/twitter/friendfeed/whatever, I can do that for a small price as well. This service will be available only from next Month onwards though (June 08).

You will also notice a few “unofficial” leaderboards popping up here in the future. Stay tuned so that you can get bragging rights.

Sponsorship

Once I pass 50,000 “pageviews”, I’ll start accepting sponsors. That will enable me to satisfy “my” stats addiction (and yours too!), undertaking several projects that will require infrastructure (mainly bandwidth) which are out of my reach now. Also, I’m college bound, so any financial gain I make is going to beextremely useful, both for my current Indian college education and for my ambitious US Postgrad program.

Thank Yous

A coupla thank-yous, in no particular order: Rob Lagesse, Louis Gray, Sudar, Rory, Sriram, Chuck and ofcourse my dad Sorry to the many people I’ve missed out - you know who you are!

Technical Note

The app that generates stats is named GoodFather, after Rob Lagesse. It consumes XML, generated by a suite of applications collectively named Avee (named for my friend Avantika) GoodFather is pure VB9, while Avee is a collection of VB9 and Python (for larger sites, like Digg) scripts. Flames on my choice of platforms welcome )