Site History For 2004
site history for 2005
End of year statistics:
| 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | |
| pages | 547 | 512 | 434 | 325 | 188 |
| regular photographs | 2592 | 2081 | 2070 | 1769 | 1264 |
| wallpaper photographs | 890 | 673 | 490 | 184 | |
 airshows
and military museums |
220 | 168 | 146 | 39 | |
| fighters |
45 | ||||
| bombers |
19 | ||||
| attack |
19 | ||||
| naval |
36 | ||||
| non-combatants |
30 | ||||
| displays |
23 | ||||
| helicopters |
15 | ||||
| civil |
16 | ||||
| museums |
16 | ||||
| life
on earth |
439 | 354 | 248 | 90 | |
| amphibians |
14 | ||||
| ants |
10 | ||||
| beetles |
18 | ||||
| birds |
89 | ||||
| bugs |
14 | ||||
| butterflies |
38 | ||||
| caterpillars |
36 | ||||
| dragonflies |
23 | ||||
| fungus |
12 | ||||
| grasshoppers |
11 | ||||
| horrors |
21 | ||||
| mammals |
18 | ||||
| moths |
14 | ||||
| reptiles |
29 | ||||
| spiders |
33 | ||||
| underwater |
59 | ||||
| New
Zealand |
57 | ||||
| activities |
12 | ||||
| cities |
12 | ||||
| North
Island |
12 | ||||
| South
Island |
21 | ||||
| travel |
119 | 70 | 51 | 37 | |
| Asia |
21 | ||||
| Caribbean
basin |
21 | ||||
| Europe |
17 | ||||
| Middle
East |
33 | ||||
| Pacific |
27 | ||||
| USA |
55 | 34 | 23 | 18 | |
| activities |
9 | ||||
| cities |
23 | ||||
| seasons |
7 | ||||
| states |
16 |
| Summary by Month | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Daily Avg | Monthly Totals | ||||||||
| Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | Visits | Pages | Files | Hits | |
| Dec 2004 | 149248 | 131713 | 7429 | 4046 | 126849 | 84240326 | 125453 | 230313 | 4083105 | 4626716 |
| Nov 2004 | 145050 | 129597 | 7479 | 4182 | 120041 | 84413546 | 125465 | 224391 | 3887916 | 4351501 |
| Oct 2004 | 188011 | 168672 | 10466 | 4995 | 160100 | 157231476 | 154870 | 324464 | 5228845 | 5828361 |
| Sep 2004 | 157536 | 142457 | 8111 | 4488 | 134386 | 128984258 | 134649 | 243334 | 4273731 | 4726103 |
| Aug 2004 | 119378 | 106341 | 6063 | 3161 | 105488 | 92781577 | 98017 | 187963 | 3296591 | 3700730 |
| Jul 2004 | 390186 | 330535 | 17459 | 10183 | 262272 | 296277504 | 315686 | 541244 | 10246591 | 12095792 |
| Jun 2004 | 307786 | 266156 | 13720 | 7725 | 195059 | 216968726 | 231779 | 411611 | 7984695 | 9233608 |
| May 2004 | 94059 | 85918 | 4951 | 2610 | 74125 | 74078869 | 80931 | 153506 | 2663477 | 2915857 |
| Apr 2004 | 98651 | 90136 | 5285 | 2687 | 73891 | 70526853 | 80635 | 158561 | 2704080 | 2959557 |
| Mar 2004 | 102316 | 93428 | 5600 | 2790 | 79901 | 78709888 | 86493 | 173628 | 2896286 | 3171800 |
| Feb 2004 | 91245 | 83400 | 4960 | 2492 | 69544 | 64952047 | 72277 | 143865 | 2418620 | 2646118 |
| Jan 2004 | 69258 | 63162 | 3915 | 1730 | 50347 | 53570028 | 53634 | 121394 | 1958035 | 2147022 |
| Totals | 1402735098 | 1559889 | 2914274 | 51641972 | 58403165 | |||||
2004/12/30 added a whip scorpion from Vietnam to the Horrors wallpaper page.
2004/12/29 added a photo of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center to the USA Cities wallpaper page.
2004/12/28 added an Enstrom F28A to the Helicopter wallpaper page.
2004/12/27 added the Po Klang Garai Cham towers in Vietnam to the Asia Travel wallpaper page.
2004/12/26 added a red base Jezebel to the Butterfly Wallpaper page.
2004/12/22 added a two-striped jumping spider from Vietnam to the Spider wallpaper page.
2004/12/21 added a Vietnamese Air Force MiG 21 "Fishbed" fighter jet to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/12/20 added a photo of Halong Bay in Vietnam to the Asian Travel wallpaper page.
2004/12/19 added a strangely shaped Vietnamese spider with a transparent abdomen full of eggs to the Spider wallpaper page.
2004/12/01 added a flock of circling American white pelicans to the Swimming Birds wallpaper page.
2004/11/30 added a relief of Akhenaten and his family to the Middle East travel wallpaper page.
2004/11/29 added an OV-10 Bronco fire bomber to the Civil Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/11/26 added a Miramar Airshow 2004 highlights page and a Miramar Airshow 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/11/24 added a spider guarding its eggs to the Spider wallpaper page.
2004/11/23 added a photo of people sitting on an Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park, New York to the USA Activities wallpaper page, as well as a Jacqueline Cochran Airshow 2004 highlights page and a Jacqueline Cochran Airshow 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/11/22 added a T-2 Buckeye to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/11/19 added an HH-60 Pave Hawk to the Helicopter wallpaper page.
2004/11/18 added a photo of Dahab to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page, and a female two-tailed swallowtail to the Butterfly wallpaper page.
2004/11/17 added a Nellis Airshow 2004 highlights page and Nellis Airshow 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/11/16 added a Thunderbirds sneak pass to the Aircraft Display wallpaper page, and a photo of the F-22 Raptor using afterburner to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/11/15 added an F-22 Raptor to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2005/12/19 by a better photo of an F-22 Raptor, which in turn was replaced on 2009/04/06 by an even better photo of an F-22 Raptor.
2004/11/10 added a photo of the battle mural at Cacaxtla in Mexico to the Caribbean Basin Travel wallpaper page.
2004/11/09 added a green lynx spider to the Spider wallpaper page.
2004/11/08 added a C-46 Commando to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2007/05/01 by a better photo of the same C-46 Commando.
2004/11/05 added a photo of Devonport to the New Zealand Cities wallpaper page.
2004/11/04 added Galata Tower in Istanbul to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/11/03 added a U2 spy plane to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/11/02 added a blue-spotted cornetfish to the Miscellaneous Underwater Life wallpaper page, and a page of Highlights of the Vandenburg Air Force Base Airshow 2004, together with a Vandenburg AFB Airshow 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/11/01 added a mating pair of jagged ambush bugs to the True Bug wallpaper page.
2004/10/29 added a C-119 Flying Boxcar to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/10/27 added a blue death feigning beetle from the Valley of Fire in Nevada to the Beetle wallpaper page.
2004/10/26 added a photo of the grounds of Himeji Castle in Japan to the Asia Travel wallpaper page, and a photo of the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl as seen from the town of Cholula to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/10/23 added an F-4 Phantom II to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/10/19 added a carved stone relief from the Temple of Philae in Egypt to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/10/18 added an AH-1 Super Cobra to the Helicopter wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2011/06/14 by a better photo of an AH-1W Super Cobra.
2004/10/15 added an unidentified Australian damselfly to the Dragonfly and Damselfly wallpaper page.
2004/10/14 added some dolphins in New Zealand's Bay Of Islands to the Mammal wallpaper page.
2004/10/13 added Muriwai Beach to the New Zealand North Island wallpaper page.
2004/10/12 added the Ballerina Clown statue at Venice Beach in Los Angeles to the American Cities wallpaper page.
2004/10/11 added an Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir jet fighter to the fighter aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2006/11/13 by a better photo of a Kfir.
2004/10/10 added a Kern County Air Show 2004 Highlights page, together with a Kern County Air Show 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/10/09 added a Prescott Air Fair 2004 Highlights page, together with a Prescott Air Fair 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/10/08 added an unidentified Mexican grasshopper to the Grasshopper wallpaper page.
2004/10/07 added a photo of Gambel's quail to the Forest and Field Bird wallpaper page.
2004/10/05 added the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa (Cacahuamilpa caves) to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/10/04 added a Sea Fury flying in formation with a Spitfire to the Aircraft Display wallpaper page.
2004/10/01 added a mockingbird mobbing an American kestrel to the Raptor wallpaper page.
2004/09/30 replaced an existing photo of an F4U Corsair on the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page with a better shot of the same aircraft, which was replaced on 2011/04/25 by a better photo of an F4U banking sharply.
2004/09/29 added a relief of Pharoah Akhenaten and his family offering lotus blossoms to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/09/28 added a thorn shaped treehopper from Mexico to the Bug wallpaper page.
2004/09/27 added an E-2C Hawkeye 2000 to the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/09/26 added a page of Point Mugu 2004 Airshow Highlights together with a Point Mugu 2004 Airshow Photo Gallery.
2004/09/24 added a photo of a pair of familiar bluets laying eggs to the damselfly wallpaper page.
2004/09/23 added a wall of skulls from the Templo Mayor in Mexico City to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/09/22 added a photo of the Grand Canyon to the USA States wallpaper page.
2004/09/21 added some black-necked stilts to the Wading Bird wallpaper page.
2004/09/20 added an F-18F Super Hornet pulling a vapor cone to the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/09/17 added a trio of horse guardsmen outside Buckingham Palace to the European Travel wallpaper page.
2004/09/16 added a tailless whip scorpion to the Horrors wallpaper page.
2004/09/15 added a spotted snake eel to the Underwater Horrors wallpaper page.
2004/09/14 added a photo of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds climbing into the blue to the Aircraft Display wallpaper page.
2004/09/13 added a carved relief from Abu Simbel to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page of Ramses II smiting his enemies.
2004/09/12 added a page about the Valley of Fire.
2004/09/10 added a balanced rock from Nevada's Valley of Fire to the USA States wallpaper page.
2004/09/09 added some mountain scenery from the Sinai peninsula to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/09/08 added a large red centipede from Mexico to the centipede wallpaper page.
2004/09/07 put up a brown hooded owlet moth caterpillar on the Caterpillar wallpaper page as a replacement for an inferior earlier photo of the same species.
2004/09/03 added a desert blister beetle to the Beetle wallpaper page.
2004/09/02 added a UH-19 Chickasaw helicopter to the Aircraft Museum wallpaper page.
2004/09/01 added a scorpion I found in my bedroom to the Horrors wallpaper page.
2004/08/31 added a Red Sea melon butterflyfish (also known as a black-tail butterflyfish or polyp butterflyfish) to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/08/30 added the Templo de Santo Toribio at Xicohtzingo in Mexico to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/08/27 added a white and black wasp to the Ant, Wasp and Bee wallpaper page.
2004/08/26 added a Gloster Gladiator biplane to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/08/25 added a caterpillar next to the husk of a dead caterpillar to the Caterpillar wallpaper page.
2004/08/24 added the village of Anadolu Kavagi on the Bosporus to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/08/23 added a spider guarding her egg case in downtown Mexico city to the Spider wallpaper page.
2004/08/20 added an ancient painted mural called The Paradise of Tlaloc at Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/08/19 added a Montezuma cattleheart swallowtail to the Butterfly wallpaper page.
2004/08/17 added a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer cargo plane to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/08/16 added a Mexican treehopper to the Bug wallpaper page.
2004/08/14 added the statue of Diana the Hunter in Mexico city, and the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/08/12 added a black widow to the Spider wallpaper page.
2004/08/11 added a Kaman HH-43 Huskie helicopter to the Aircraft Museum wallpaper page.
2004/08/10 added an attractive Mexican grasshopper to the Grasshopper wallpaper page.
2004/08/09 added Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano to the Caribbean Basin Travel wallpaper page.
2004/07/29 added a C-2A Greyhound to the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2011/04/29 by a better photo of a C-2 Greyhound.
2004/07/28 added the inside of the dome of the Mohammed Ali mosque in Cairo to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/07/27 added an Arabian surgeonfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/07/26 added a western spotted leaf-nosed snake to the Reptile wallpaper page.
2004/07/23 added an FJ-4 Fury to the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page, and a Chino airshow 2004 highlights page together with a Chino airshow 2004 photo gallery.
2004/07/22 added a photo of kids playing in Chicago's navy pier fountain to the American Activities wallpaper page.
2004/07/21 added a world war two Messerschmitt Me163 Komett rocket-powered fighter plane to the Aircraft Museum wallpaper page, and created an American Activities wallpaper page.
2004/07/20 replaced an existing photo of an ermine moth on the Moth wallpaper page with a better one.
2004/07/19 put a photo of San Diego's Coronado Hotel on the American Cities wallpaper page.
2004/07/16 replaced an existing photo of a Douglas Dauntless dive bomber on the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page with a better one.
2004/07/15 added a pair of vermilion biscuit stars from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Underwater Invertebrate page.
2004/07/14 added the Devil's Punchbowl waterfall in Arthur's Pass to the New Zealand South Island wallpaper page.
2004/07/13 added a photo of a tree in Fall foliage to the USA Seasons page.
2004/07/12 added an S-64 Skycrane to the Helicopter wallpaper page.
2004/07/09 added a photo of the inside of a dome of Aya Sophia in Turkey to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/07/08 added a C-47 Skytrain to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2014/05/08 by a better photo of a C-47 Skytrain.
2004/07/07 added a chuckwalla to the Reptile wallpaper page.
2004/07/06 added a chipmunk to the Mammal wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2008/04/14 by a better photo of a chipmunk.
2004/07/05 added a page about the American state of Illinois, with an Illinois photo gallery and a page about the Wildlife of Volo Bog in northern Illinois.
2004/07/02 added an early style "razorback" P-47 Thunderbolt to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2009/06/02 by a better photo of the same razorback P-47 Thunderbolt.
2004/07/01 added an adult lyretail grouper to the Fish wallpaper page.
June 2004 statistics:
2004/06/30 added an Alpha jet trainer to the Non-Combatant wallpaper page.
2004/06/29 added Costa Rica's La Fortuna waterfall to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/06/28 added a woolly bear to the Caterpillar wallpaper page.
Recorded the first day ever with more than 36,000 unique visitors:
| Daily Statistics for June 2004 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | ||||||
| 28 | 1494697 | 16.19% | 1271311 | 15.92% | 60059 | 14.59% | 36522 | 15.76% | 33710 | 17.28% | 35477872 | 16.35% |
2004/06/27 added the back of Tutankhamun's chair to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/06/25 Recorded
the first day ever with more than 19,000 unique visitors:
| Daily Statistics for June 2004 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | ||||||
| 25 | 828145 | 8.97% | 722842 | 9.05% | 34526 | 8.39% | 19649 | 8.48% | 18178 | 9.32% | 19236504 | 8.87% |
2004/06/24 added Burt Rutan's White Knight space launch jet to the Civil Aircraft wallpaper page.
Recorded the first
day ever with more than 13,000 unique visitors:
| Daily Statistics for June 2004 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | ||||||
| 24 | 586816 | 6.36% | 516591 | 6.47% | 25249 | 6.13% | 13555 | 5.85% | 12639 | 6.48% | 13491907 | 6.22% |
2004/06/23 added a photo of Islamic Cairo to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
Recorded the first
day ever with more than 5,000 unique visitors:
| Daily Statistics for June 2004 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | ||||||
| 23 | 220573 | 2.39% | 193236 | 2.42% | 9930 | 2.41% | 5405 | 2.33% | 5921 | 3.04% | 4928198 | 2.27% |
2004/06/22 added Hoover Dam to the USA States wallpaper page.
Thanks to the SpaceShipOne
page, recorded the first day ever with more than 4,000 unique visitors:
| Daily Statistics for June 2004 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | ||||||
| 22 | 192473 | 2.08% | 175683 | 2.20% | 8585 | 2.09% | 4560 | 1.97% | 5473 | 2.81% | 4368346 | 2.01% |
2004/06/21 added a photo to the Civil Aircraft wallpaper page of Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne landing after its first flight into space, together with a page describing the First Flight of SpaceShipOne into Space.
2004/06/18 replaced an existing photo of a P-38 Lightning on the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page with a better one.
2004/06/17 added a prickly red sea cucumber to the Underwater Invertebrates wallpaper page.
2004/06/16 added a sun spider to the Horrors wallpaper page.
2004/06/15 added a yacht on Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, to the New Zealand Activities wallpaper page.
2004/06/14 added a Mitsubishi Zero to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2011/05/19 by a better photo of the same Zero.
2004/06/11 added a coral fungus from Wisconsin to the Fungus wallpaper page.
2004/06/10 added a photo of the freshwater spring at the McCallum Palm Grove in the Coachella Valley Preserve to the American States wallpaper page.
2004/06/09 added a brightly colored female long-nosed leopard lizard to the Reptile wallpaper page, together with a USA Reptile photo gallery and a page about the Lizards of the Valley of Fire in Nevada.
2004/06/08 added a shot of the Mohammed Ali mosque in Cairo to the Middle East travel wallpaper page.
2004/06/07 added a cryptic Costa Rican mantis to the Grasshopper wallpaper page.
2004/06/04 added a picasso triggerfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/06/03 added a photo of the Bellagio water show in Las Vegas to the American Cities wallpaper page.
2004/06/02 added a pair of S-3 Vikings to the Naval Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/06/01 added a horned lizard to the reptile wallpaper page.
2004/05/28 added a mantid to the Grasshopper wallpaper page.
2004/05/27 added a page about Australia, a page about Sydney's Harbourand a Sydney photo gallery, and also added a Mark XIX Spitfire PS890 with contra-rotating propellers to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/05/26 added a red colored bolete to the Fungus wallpaper page.
2004/05/25 addedVolo Bog in Illinois to the USA States wallpaper page.
2004/05/24 added a Mark XVIII Spitfire TP280 to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/05/21 added a Senegal dove (also know as a laughing dove or palm dove) to the Forest and Field Bird wallpaper page.
2004/05/20 added a royal angelfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/05/19 added the Mark V Spitfire EP120 "City of Winnipeg" to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/05/18 added a photo of a pair of ferries on Sydney Harbour to the Pacific Travel wallpaper page.
2004/05/17 added a German world war two Fieseler Fi 156 Storch to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/05/14 added a photograph of the cataracts at Aswan in Egypt to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page, along with a page showing things Around and About Aswan, with an accompanying Southern Egypt Photo Gallery.
2004/05/13 added a black saddlebags to the Dragonfly wallpaper page.
2004/05/12 added a photo of Brooklyn Bridge at night to the USA Cities wallpaper page.
2004/05/11 added a photo of Hollyford Valley to the New Zealand South Island wallpaper page.
2004/05/10 added a checkerboard wrasse to the Fish wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2006/12/27 by a better photo of a checkerboard wrasse.
2004/05/07 added a pair of Soviet L29 Delfin trainer jets to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page, together with a March Field Air Show 2004 Highlights Page and a March Field Air Show 2004 Photo Gallery.
2004/05/06 added a snapping turtle to the Reptile wallpaper page.
2004/05/05 added a statue of the goddess Hathor at the temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt's Valley of the Queens to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/05/04 added a Phaeton sphinx moth caterpillar to the Caterpillar wallpaper page.
2004/05/03 added a photo of the 2000 New Year Celebrations in Times Square to the USA Seasons and Celebrations wallpaper page.
2004/04/30 added a fantail to the Forest and Field Bird wallpaper page, as well as a page of basic photography tips called Point! Shoot! and some intermediate photography tips called Beyond Point and Shoot.
2004/04/29 added to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page a photo of the church at Zarcero in Costa Rica.
2004/04/28 added a Belvedere helicopter from the Royal Air Force museum at Hendon to the Aircraft Museum wallpaper page.
2004/04/27 added a broomtail wrasse to the Fish Wallpaper page.
2004/04/26 added a KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refuelling tanker to the Non-Combatant Aircraft wallpaper page.
2004/04/23 added the Fijian moth Nyctemera secundiana to the Moth wallpaper page.
2004/04/22 added a V1 flying bomb to the Aircraft Museum wallpaper page.
2004/04/21 added the Red Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt, to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/04/20 added a page of Chicago Landmarks and a Chicago photo gallery, and also added a rattlesnake to the Reptile wallpaper page.
2004/04/19 added an aerial photograph of the Las Vegas strip to the USA Cities wallpaper page.
2004/04/16 added a photo of the Old Government Buildings, second largest wooden buildings in the world, to the New Zealand Cities wallpaper page.
2004/04/15 replaced an existing photo of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Yankee Lady" taking off with a better photo.
2004/04/14 added a Fijian sphinx moth called Theretra pinastrina intersecta to the Moth wallpaper page.
2004/04/13 added a Costa Rican tree frog to the Amphibian wallpaper page, and split the USA wallpaper page into a separate USA Cities wallpaper page, USA States wallpaper page, USA Seasons wallpaper page and USA Celebrations wallpaper page.
2004/04/12 added a photograph of a large boulder in Nevada's Valley of Fire to the USA wallpaper page.
2004/04/08 added a red-backed butterflyfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/04/07 added Cave Stream to the South Island of New Zealand wallpaper page, and also added a Yankee Air Museum page, a Yankee Air Museum photo gallery and a page about Cold War Jet Fighters at the Yankee Air Museum.
2004/04/06 added the St Louis Arch to the USA wallpaper page.
2004/04/05 added the temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel in Egypt to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/04/02 added a Japanese swallowtail butterfly called Byasa alcinous to the Butterfly wallpaper page.
2004/04/01 added a northern desert iguana to the Reptile wallpaper page, an El Centro Airshow 2004 page, an El Centro Airshow 2004 Highlights page, and an El Centro Airshow 2004 Photo Galleries page.
2004/03/31 added Auckland Harbour to the New Zealand Cities wallpaper page.
2004/03/30 added the Step Pyramid of Zoser to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/03/29 replaced an existing photo of a head-on pass by the US Navy "Blue Angels" jet display team to the Aircraft Display wallpaper page.
2004/03/28 added a masked butterflyfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/03/26 added a page about Egyptian butterflyfish of the Red Sea.
2004/03/25 added a freshwater crayfish from the Coachella Valley Preserve in southern California to the Miscellaneous Underwater Life wallpaper page.
2004/03/24 added an F-16 Fighting Falcon and P-51 Mustang during an "Heritage Flight" format display to the Aircraft Display wallpaper page.
2004/03/23 added a white-lined sphinx moth caterpillar to the Caterpillar wallpaper page.
2004/03/22 added the Coachella Valley Preserve's Willis Palm Grove, with snow-covered Mt San Gorgonio in the background, to the USA wallpaper page.
2004/03/19 added a Fijian dragonfly to the Dragonfly wallpaper page.
2004/03/18 added a juvenile lyretail grouper to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/03/17 added a Fijian stick insect (or walking stick) to the Grasshopper wallpaper page.
2004/03/16 added a photo of the Turkish Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/03/15 added a page about the city of Christchurch in New Zealand, and replaced an existing photo of a C-121 Constellation on the Non-Combatant Military Aircraft wallpaper page with a better photo.
2004/03/12 added another photo of Tutankhamun's gold death mask to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/03/11 added a photo of kids at Narrow Neck beach to the New Zealand Activities wallpaper page.
2004/03/10 added a peacock grouper to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/03/09 added a page about the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Fiji, and a photo of the Fijian island of Taveuni taken from Bouma National Park to the Pacific Travel wallpaper page.
2004/03/08 added a photo of large whirligig beetles on Volo Bog, Illinois, to the Beetle wallpaper page.
2004/03/05 added a Bohadschia graeffei sea cucumber to the Underwater Invertebrates wallpaper page.
2004/03/04 added a photo of the Egyptian beach resort of Dahab to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/03/03 added a gray heron to the Wading Bird wallpaper page.
2004/03/02 added a photo of a waterfall in the Monteverde Cloud Forest of Costa Rica to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page.
2004/03/01 replaced a photo of an A-10 Thunderbolt II ("warthog") on the Attack Aircraft wallpaper page with a better one, and put a photo of the Palm Springs Wind Farm with Mt San Gorgonio in the background on the USA wallpaper page.
2004/02/27 added a page of British jet aircraft at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, together with an Imperial War Museum at Duxford photo gallery.
2004/02/26 added a marine corps UH-1 Iroquois ("Huey") search and rescue helicopter to the Helicopter wallpaper page.
2004/02/25 added the Mosque of Mohammed Ali in Cairo to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/02/24 added a symbiotic fish and jellyfish to the Miscellaneous Underwater wallpaper page.
2004/02/23 added a photo to the Caribbean Travel wallpaper page of tropical jungle meeting the Caribbean at Manzanillo in Costa Rica.
2004/02/20 added a photo of oil tankers on the Bosporus to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/02/19 added the Royal Air Force "Red Arrows" military jet display team to the Aircraft Display wallpaper page.
2004/02/18 added a photograph of sunset at Aswan to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/02/17 added a group of Red Sea raccoon butterflyfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/02/16 added a page about the Pyramids of Dahshur in Egypt, and a Timeline of Egyptian History.
2004/02/13 added a photo of Meteor Crater in Arizona to the USA wallpaper page, which was replaced on 2010/12/10 by a better photo of Meteor Crater.
2004/02/12 added a Spilomyia fly to the Horrors wallpaper page.
2004/02/11 added a hot pool at Whakarewarewa village to the North Island of New Zealand wallpaper page.
2004/02/10 added a cormorant from Turkey to the Diving Bird wallpaper page.
2004/02/09 added Tutankhamun's outer coffin to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/02/08 added a page about the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur in Egypt, together with an Around Cairo photo gallery.
2004/02/06 added a B36 Peacemaker at the US Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio, to the Aircraft Museum wallpaper page.
2004/02/05 added the Blue Mosque to the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/02/04 added a photo of route 66 to the USA Wallpaper page.
2004/02/03 added some Red Sea garden eels from the Eel Garden in Dahab, Egypt, to the Miscellaneous Underwater wallpaper page.
2004/02/02 added a Westland AH1 Scout to the Helicopter wallpaper page.
2004/02/01 added an Egyptian museum photo gallery.
2004/01/31 added a page showing the death mask and coffins of pharoah Tutankhamun in the Egyptian museum in Cairo, with another page with statues of Tutankhamun.
2004/01/30 added a page about Egypt and put Tutankhamun's gold death mask on the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/01/29 added a Mediterranean gecko photographed in suburban Palm Springs to the Reptile wallpaper page.
2004/01/28 added the avenue of the sphinxes at Luxor temple to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/01/27 added an american avocet in winter plumage to the Wading Bird wallpaper page.
2004/01/25 added the P-38 Lightning "Porky II" to the Fighter Aircraft wallpaper page, it was replaced with a better one on 2004/06/18.
2004/01/23 added an emperor angelfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
First day ever with
over 2,000 unique visitors to the website:
| Daily Statistics for January 2004 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | ||||||
| 23 | 90126 | 4.20% | 82777 | 4.23% | 6562 | 5.41% | 2237 | 4.17% | 2856 | 5.67% | 1970745 | 3.68% |
| 24 | 67293 | 3.13% | 60740 | 3.10% | 4058 | 3.34% | 1764 | 3.29% | 2353 | 4.67% | 1575815 | 2.94% |
| 25 | 77832 | 3.63% | 70363 | 3.59% | 3941 | 3.25% | 2039 | 3.80% | 2670 | 5.30% | 1776311 | 3.32% |
| 26 | 90706 | 4.22% | 83079 | 4.24% | 4870 | 4.01% | 2483 | 4.63% | 3511 | 6.97% | 2117172 | 3.95% |
| 27 | 91929 | 4.28% | 84396 | 4.31% | 4662 | 3.84% | 2492 | 4.65% | 3160 | 6.28% | 2105942 | 3.93% |
| 28 | 95285 | 4.44% | 87045 | 4.45% | 4872 | 4.01% | 2553 | 4.76% | 3168 | 6.29% | 2342693 | 4.37% |
| 29 | 85251 | 3.97% | 78813 | 4.03% | 4650 | 3.83% | 2636 | 4.91% | 3257 | 6.47% | 2237457 | 4.18% |
| 30 | 106671 | 4.97% | 97887 | 5.00% | 6281 | 5.17% | 2490 | 4.64% | 3378 | 6.71% | 2845331 | 5.31% |
| 31 | 86237 | 4.02% | 79014 | 4.04% | 5752 | 4.74% | 2205 | 4.11% | 2717 | 5.40% | 1694325 | 3.16% |
2004/01/22 added a photo of Aya Sofya (also know as "Hagia Sophia" or the "Church of the Divine Wisdom") to the Turkish section of the Middle Eastern wallpaper page.
2004/01/21 added the US Navy's SH-60 Seahawk variant of the Blackhawk helicopter to the Helicopter wallpaper page.
2004/01/20 added a pair of red sea bannerfish to the Fish wallpaper page.
2004/01/19 added a photo of feluccas on the Nile at Aswan to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/01/18 added the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak Temple to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/01/15 added the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur to the Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page.
2004/01/14 created a Middle Eastern Travel wallpaper page and added a photo of the Giza Pyramids to it.
2004/01/13 added
a lionfish
to the Underwater Horrors wallpaper page.
End of year statistics:
| 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | |
| pages | 512 | 434 | 325 | 188 |
| regular photographs | 2081 | 2070 | 1769 | 1264 |
| wallpaper photographs | 673 | 490 | 184 | |
| airshows
and military museums |
168 | 146 | 39 | |
| life
on earth |
354 | 248 | 90 | |
| travel |
70 | 51 | 37 | |
| USA |
34 | 23 | 18 |
| Summary by Month | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Daily Avg | Monthly Totals | ||||||||
| Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | Visits | Pages | Files | Hits | |
| Dec 2003 | 53884 | 48748 | 2847 | 1292 | 36183 | 37138547 | 40081 | 88262 | 1511202 | 1670433 |
| Nov 2003 | 55199 | 50526 | 2881 | 1386 | 37411 | 37272881 | 41598 | 86439 | 1515801 | 1655982 |
| Oct 2003 | 59606 | 54562 | 3167 | 1477 | 41602 | 46812061 | 45792 | 98188 | 1691438 | 1847814 |
| Sep 2003 | 57544 | 51898 | 2958 | 1398 | 49478 | 36775276 | 41958 | 88758 | 1556958 | 1726327 |
| Aug 2003 | 50618 | 45968 | 2620 | 1191 | 41231 | 30227581 | 36928 | 81247 | 1425026 | 1569181 |
| Jul 2003 | 50854 | 46347 | 2695 | 1200 | 36935 | 31449868 | 37219 | 83551 | 1436773 | 1576490 |
| Jun 2003 | 41419 | 37583 | 2182 | 1027 | 29282 | 29898544 | 30822 | 65466 | 1127495 | 1242579 |
| May 2003 | 45111 | 41103 | 2476 | 1194 | 30375 | 29145022 | 37025 | 76785 | 1274211 | 1398467 |
| Apr 2003 | 46581 | 42590 | 2735 | 1286 | 33313 | 31278648 | 38595 | 82050 | 1277713 | 1397456 |
| Mar 2003 | 49154 | 45064 | 2635 | 1321 | 35589 | 33851361 | 40959 | 81714 | 1397008 | 1523802 |
| Feb 2003 | 43766 | 40297 | 2378 | 1150 | 27498 | 28625164 | 32220 | 66585 | 1128329 | 1225475 |
| Jan 2003 | 32696 | 30154 | 1791 | 878 | 22657 | 26456383 | 27225 | 55535 | 934787 | 1013585 |