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My first article on this blog was the first in the “Dynamic Control Creation” series. I wrote it because I was frustrated with how ASP.Net worked and wanted to share my discoveries/workarounds with other frustrated developers. After a period of time Google picked up my article and I started to receive a decent amount of traffic and some positive feedback. Here at work I use ASP.Net for a majority of my applications and so the blog has continued to focus on it primarily. An interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that site traffic has a very consistent pattern — which I attribute to my focus on ASP.Net. Above you see a graph — from Google Analytics — that shows daily traffic over the last five months. Each valley in the graph made up of the numbers for Saturday and Sunday which are consistently very small compared to the weekday traffic.

I’ve done a few inquiries and looked at a few other sites I have stats for and found that this isn’t all that common. When other sites match my pattern they have a high number of work time surfers coming to their site as I do. I use this loose research to conclude that ASP.Net is widely used in the workplace and much less common for personal/weekend projects. PHP blogs and websites have a very consistent amount of traffic on all days of the week as many weekend programmers surf for information.

What does this signify for ASP.Net? Very few people use it for fun for one thing. I certainly don’t when I don’t have to. In fact I am phasing it out at work slowly too, starting most new projects in PHP — which I’m not really a fan of either. Companies across the globe are buying into Microsoft server products and technologies and forcing it down their employees throats.

How do your traffic statistics look? What is your main theme/topic? Would you prefer to use a different programming language at work? Leave a comment, I’m very interested.