Okay, it's Saturday...time for some fun. Thanks to Google Analytics, we know more about our readers than we actually realize. It's not the "Big Brother" looking over your shoulder stuff. More like, well, analytic stuff, just like it says.

So, after 23 days online, here's some interesting information about The Icon:

We've experienced 4,225 visits to our site

Of those, 1,536 are unique visitors

Our visitors have totaled 33,364 page views

An average visitor checks out 7.9 pages per visit

That average visitor spends 6:06 minutes on the site during the visit

33 percent of visitors are new

66 percent of visitors are returners

57 percent use Internet Explorer

21 percent use Firefox

15 percent use Safari

39 percent are cable subscribers

30 percent use DLS

15 percent use T1 lines

We have visitors from 13 countries:

The vast majority are from the United States

33 visits were from Canada

21 from Switzerland (our guess: Ben Kruse)

6 from Brazil (probably Ken and Renee Snare)

2 from Russia

2 from Japan (probably Rick Emmert)

2 from Colombia

1 from Costa Rica

1 from Greece

19 unknown

Of all these visitors

1,422 first go to "15 minutes with..." and once there spend an average of 3:06 minutes of reading time

1,004 first go to columns

976 first go to obituaries

878 first go to images (photos)

Here's a chart showing daily views:

Oct. 10 75

Oct. 13 183 (2,159 total views)

Oct. 14 187 (2,346 total views)

Oct. 15 213 - our first time to crack the 200 viewer barrier

Oct. 16 172

Oct. 17 122

Oct. 18 114 (we failed to add new material for 2 days because we were out of town!)

Oct. 19 266

Oct. 20 276 (3,509 total views)

Oct. 21 234

Oct. 22 228

Oct. 23 276 (4,225 total views)

There's more, but so little time, since your 6:06 minutes of average reading time is almost up.