I run a cool WordPress plugin called “blog stats” to get information on the popularity of my site.

It gives me stats such as the most popular keywords used on search engines to reach this blog. Some come with no surprise, such as “magic the gathering psp”, or “mtg psp”, or “wagic”. Other are a bit funnier, such as “what is wololo”.

It also gives me a count of the number of visits. The Tiff exploit created a huge peak, multiplying my number of daily visitors by 20 :

Such a peak can also be seen when some rumors about me running an exploit on firmware 5.50 appeared on the net.

The recent events also have had a huge impact on the number of downloads of Wagic itself. At first I was happy, but then I realized that more than 90% of the new downloads came from chinese IPs, probably because some popular Chinese websites made a confusion between homebrews and ISOs? Well, that or Magic the Gathering just became ultra popular in China for some reason 😉

Anyways, minus the 3 crazy days whith these thousands of Chinese downloads, The latest version of Wagic has still been downloaded between 5’000 and 10’000 times within a month (difficult to count precisely since other websites distribute the file too…)

And here I start to dream…wow, if I got half a dollar for each download, I could just quit my job and work fulltime on homebrew development 🙂  (Why doesn’t Sony have an Apple store, goddammit ???)