Interesting statistics for your viewing pleasure:
- Most popular search term that leads people to barnson.org: Rice Pudding“
- Second-most popular term: “Cream Cheese Frosting“
- Most commented-on article ever: “Where do you really stand on politics?“. (closed to further discussion)
- Second-most commented on: “Autism or Demonic Possession?“(closed to further discussion)
- Average requests per month: roughly 100,000
- Percentage of bandwidth used by serving mp3’s: 43.39%
- Post that has gotten me more hate mail than any other: “Garageband, Reviews, and my take (I think because of my fairly high google ranking for some bizarre reason is why)
- Most registered users ever online at one time: 5
- Most unregistered users ever online at one time: 33
- Most mystifyingly-popular post: “Back by popular demand: The art of tying shoes“.
Hope you enjoyed the list!
Censorship..
First off, very very cool.
Okay, my darker thoughts..
Autism vs. Demonic Posession: Okay, I understand almost, but it isn’t like your old posts. That one is fairly tame by comparison.
Where do you stand on Politics: What was wrong with that one, other than that it was spirited? Just because you say how YOU feel? I dunno..
Closing?
Well, I don’t think it’s censorship to say “the topic is closed, start a new one if you want to talk about that again” 🙂
I closed the topics because I was getting anon postings that really were quite incendiary. “Closing” a topic just means that people can’t add more comments — not that I’ve pulled them from my site 🙂
The politics one and demonic possession ones were really going off on a tangent from anon posters. People wanting to get into a serious discussion of the behavior of demons and stuff like that. I’m thinking of setting up most of the older topis to “retire” after a while so I don’t worry about things appearing on threads years old. Not sure yet though.
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Matthew P. Barnson
Ahh my bad
In that case, yes, retiring a post afeter a month or so is a good idea..
Similarly strange stat….
Over at MurphyMaphia.com my highest refering page is http://www.evaengler.com I have no idea who this woman is nor can I find a like to my site from hers. Nevertheless, this site is the hands-down (10 to 1 over any other single referrer) leader in sites referring to mine.
Referrer spam
I’ve noticed my referrer logs getting cluttered lately with spam. An obviously falsified referrer, pointing to the front page of what seems to be a porn site. They come, request a few pages, and leave. Weird sort of spidering, and the only person that ever sees it is… me. Yet it’s obviously targetted advertising towards my referrer log. Glad my referrer log isn’t publicly available, though, because my guess is that they hope to raise their Google PageRank by ending up on people’s log pages for a particular term or something.
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Matthew P. Barnson
Your reference to my name
I am eva engler. What do you mean by this statemen :” your highest refering page ? “
It means links…
Whenever a web browser sends a request to a server, if it came to that server due to a hyperlink, it sends the URI from which it came.
For instance, let’s say I linked to slashdot.org. Now, what happens when you click the link is that the slashdot.org server gets the request, and along with the request, your browser says “http://barnson.org/node/286” (this page) “referred me to you.”
So what Paul is saying is that your site (assuming it is your site) has more people clicking links pointing to his site than any other. Sort of like, for me, Google is my biggest referrer due to my web site having several popular articles, notable among them a silly little article on shoe-tying.
By way of reference, I know that you came to my web site from this rather lengthy URI. The URI is in my referrer history, as is the fact that you use Netscape Navigator version 7.1. You really should upgrade to Firefox, you know.
By the way, what you are doing is referred to as “Ego Surfing”, where you go hunting for your name on the Internet. It’s a fun pastime, isn’t it? I should write a blog entry about it!
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Matthew P. Barnson