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Impressum Dr. Dieter E. Zimmer Autor, Herausgeber, Übersetzer Claudiusstraße 6 D-10557 Berlin (Mitte/Tiergarten) Telefon (nur Festnetz): 030-39740920 Fax: 030-39741652 Inhaltlich Verantwortlicher gemäß § 10 Absatz 3 MDStV: Dieter E. Zimmer (Anschrift wie oben). Haftungshinweis: Trotz sorgfältiger inhaltlicher Kontrolle übernehme ich keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links. Für den Inhalt der verlinkten Seiten sind ausschließlich deren Betreiber verantwortlich. Alle originalen Inhalte dieser Seiten sind urheberrechtlich geschützt. Sie dürfen nur zur privaten Nutzung geladen werden. Diese Website ist optimiert für den Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, für eine Bildschirmauflösung von 1680 x 1050 Pixel und eine Farbtiefe von 32 Bit. Andere Browser haben zeitweise Schwierigkeiten mit der Darstellung der richtigen Schriftgrößen.
Note (January 1, 2010) When I started my new website on April 12, 2006, it was as an experiment. I had no idea if it would be of use to anybody and if I had anything to offer the Internet community at large would find at all interesting. All I was sure of was that information about me and my books would not be sufficient. The pages would have to offer "content," and the search engines would have to dig it up before anyone could reach it. Only then the website stood any chance of attracting readers who did not come for my sake. More than three and a half years later the time has come to once more review a few statistics. From April 12, 2006 to December 31, 2009, the website had 619048 visitors altogether (not counting visitors returning within half an hour). In 2009, 45.5 per cent of the visits were by search engine robots. The other 54.5 percent (129968) presumably were real persons. They came from more than 75 countries, the majority from the German speaking ones (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and, for the English language pages, from the anglophone countries hidden in the top level domains com, net and edu, followed by France, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, the Czech Republic and on to the Cocos Islands, San Marino and Tuvalu. In 2009, the search engine robots identified by the webstatistics my ISP furnishes were msn/bing (42687 visits, or 38%), Yahoo (39595, or 35%) and Google (28385, or 25%). This is in stark contrast to the referrals by search engines: 55% of the visitors came by way of Google (previous year 30%), 1.7% by way of msn/bing and 0.8% by way of Yahoo. That is, 1 visit by Google robots yielded 2.5 user visits, while it took bing 19 visits to procure 1 user and Yahoo 31. Apart from its other uses, Wikipedia has become a major search engine: 9.6% of the visitors came by way of Wikipedia. In 2009, these were the operating systems used by visitors: Windows 88%, MacOS 10%, Linux 2%. (In 2008, the figures were: Windows 86%, Linux 8%, MacOS 6%.) The browsers too show a predilection for Microsoft: Internet Explorer 48% (compared to 59% the year before), Mozilla/Firefox 41% (29), Safari 8% (4); Netscape is hanging on with less than 3%. That is, Mozilla has been gaining, Linux has been losing. There are more than a thousand webpages of text and images on the present website, equalling a few thousand pages of printed text. Most of them have been clicked at some time or the other. However, there are a few clear favorites. In 2006, the top positions were held by the ZEIT articles on "wild children" (wildekinder1989), published in 1989, twins (zwillinge1989), also from 1989, and the excerpts from my book on battery chicken from 1983 (huehner1983)−much to my surprise, for the book had been my biggest flop, and it is clearly outdated. When the first LolitaUSA pages were launched in June 2006, the picture changed. In 2007 and 2008, these were the favorites: (1) LolitaUSA. (2) "Wild children" (wildekinder1989). (3) Nabokov Family Web (nfw_toc). (4) Chicken (huehner1983). (5) Nabokov's Berlin (nabberlin2002). (6) Twins (zwillinge1989). (7) Language use on private Internet pages (unverbesserlichkeit2005). (8) Personal recollections of the end of WWII (kriegsende2005). (9) Theories of aggression (aggression1989). (10) On grief and mourning (trauer1981). In 2009, the favorites were these: (1) The LolitaUSA pages (they alone accounting for about 44 percent of the visits). (2) Covering Lolita. (3) The Nabokov Family Web. (4) "Wild children." (5) Chicken. (6) Nabokov's Berlin. (7) Language use on private WWW pages. (8) Rhubarb and Caterpillars. (9) Berlin, 1952 (photos). (10) Fehlleistungen (so-called Freudian slips). The encryption of my e-mail address has been a thorough success. While my old address that had been on my previous homepage was receiving up to 110 spam mails a day (the number dropped to 35 after new legislature), the new address which appears nowhere on the new website has received only about a dozen in one year. |