At the end of each year I have a look at the website analytics to see which items were the most popular.

Over the year there were 70,000 unique visitors with 25% visiting the site on multiple occasions. The US provided 30% of the visitors and the UK 7% with Germany, India and France around 5%. As you might expect the majority were Mac users (56%), but there were also Windows (25%), iOS (12%), and Android (2.5%) users.

Of the Mac users, 51% are now using 10.14 (Mojave), 27% 10.13 with all older versions each well below 10%.

Chrome and Safari were the preferred browsers with both around 40%.

The most popular web pages were (other than the main page)

• Fortran on a Mac
• Cheminformatics on a Mac
• Data Analysis Application on a Mac
• iBabel
• ChemDraw 17 review
• LaTeX and MathML support in Pages

The popularity of the Fortran on a Mac page has continued for several years now and it has been updated several times with user provided information.

The most viewed blog pages in 2018 were

• Xcode 9.0 is available for download
• Scientific Applications under Mojave
• Mac OSX installer for Coot
• Scientific keyboards for iOS
• Tools for Mac Fortran Programmers

The update to Mojave seems to have been another daily smooth transition, with most software developers reporting no major issues.

A couple of recent additions have generated significant interest.

• Cheminformatics toolkits - A listing of Cheminformatics toolkits

• Data Science Libraries - A list of useful python libraries for data science

As has an article I wrote on my thoughts on scientific software

 

As of Safari Technology Preview Release 26, and WebKit Nightly Build, a WebGPU prototype is available for you to experiment with on macOS.

To enable WebGPU, first make sure the Develop menu is visible using Safari → Preferences → Advanced → Show Develop menu in menu bar. Then, in the Develop menu, make sure Experimental Features → WebGPU is checked. More details and demos here