On occasion I’ll link to something that I put up on the server in my basement. One advantage of doing this is that I can gather statistics and see who’s actually reading this junk, and who makes with the clicky clicky. Here’s what I learned:
I am my own biggest fan, by an order of magnitude. 2000 hits from 192.168.1.1 (anything inside my house). 200 to the next biggest consumer which was … googlebot. Ick! Ick! Away, googlebot. I just made a robots.txt file to exclude you. Away!
After that it’s someone on RoadRunner in MN (Hi Tim!) and someone at Oberlin (hello?), someone in New Hampshire (hello?) and someone at “oshean.org”, the ocean state higher education thingamabob (hello?). Falling below the “hundred hits so far this month” mark, we have elessar.engin.umich.edu, a baby bell on the west coast (
I am my own biggest referrer (most hits come from this very journal). Duh. After that it’s redmed and rev_e‘s friends list. Maybe lots of people read the good Rev’s friends page. Maybe he just makes with the “reload” with inhuman speed and fury. Below that is something called “fuzzysquid.com/LJ.php”. I am so not looking into that right now. Away, robots.
You people are active at 9am, and again at 7pm. It’s a nice clean bimodal distribution. Wait, that probably means that *I*’m active at 9 and again at 7 … since 95% of the hits are me.
Other than that, the only really noticeable thing is that the three PDFs that I’ve put up lately got the most unique hits of anything I posted … and most of those were legit (i.e: non-googlebot). So, I should write more. Go me.
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