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June 28, 2005

A quick tour through site statistics

Every once in a while I take a quick glance at my site statistics, mostly on the lookout to see if I'm approaching my bandwidth limit. I'm not.

But it also shows up some interesting things. For example:

  • The biggest consumer of bandwidth this past month was my explanation of Annakin's immaculate conception, all because I linked to it from one LJ comment.
  • Apart from just direct requests, i.e. people hitting the URL directly or by bookmark, some of the most common "referrers" are image search engines. Now, I don't think these are just the indexing bots, since I see those showing up elsewhere in much higher numbers. These are actual click-throughs for people looking for an image. To which I must ask, what images are people searching for and finding on my site?
  • I took a quick look through the most common search strings in hopes of solving that mystery and was startled, amazed, and a little disappointed. The current top 5 search terms are: football cheerleader, felching, Colin Powell, Bush Pussy, and male cheerleader. The previous champion, muppet porn, has fallen all the way to number 8.
  • I probably need to look at reorganizing some of my category archives, particularly the wordy ones. At present, if you go the Narrative or Politics archive, you get a single, huge page with everything but comments included. I might switch those to only showing what's in the lead-in entry (vs. the extended entry), but I might also want to time-index some of them. Alas, I'm not sure MT supports the time-index in category archives. We'll see.

That's it. I now return you to your previously schedule program: Bush and Colin Powell Felching Cheerleaders.

Blog by Dan at June 28, 2005 10:44 AM

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