Getting found
June 18th 2008 09:23
While we were in England, we carried around three memory cards with our digital camera, and amazingly, in spite of their small size, managed to bring all three of them back home with us, something we didn’t manage to do with several other items we’d taken. I mention this because I suppose it’s quite something to be found on the Internet at all, so I should be grateful that people do find things I write.
Every day I get three reports from Orble.com, as no doubt many other people do. The first lists the total number of hits, the second the number of individual readers, the third the homepages and categories and the last the posts. I’m not entirely sure what the third and fourth stats actually tell me, but they’re there anyway.
Today I reached an all time high in the number of hits: 1196. Now you’d think that meant that a certain number of people had hit one or other of your sites that many times in total. That’s what I’d assume, but if that’s the case a lot of them shift on pretty quickly, because the number of individual readers is only 412. I don’t know where this second figure actually comes from, because the detailed stats that Orble gives you don’t seem to tally up with this figure. Never mind, as long as someone’s checking out the site that’s okay. Pity a few more of them didn’t leave comments or vote for the posts. That would make a difference.
I didn’t really start to write about the stats themselves, anyway, but more about the two posts that receive the most attention. For ages the one on this blog that’s got the most attention relates to the Titanic museum. I’m not sure why this is so popular, but there you go. Check it out for yourself.
On my other blog, the top post is a fairly new one, relating to the download record Mozilla Firefox is trying to top so it can get in the Guinness Book of Records. It was written about three weeks ago, and the event it relates to has already begun. In fact, because New Zealand time zone-wise is ahead of everyone else, all 17,857 NZ pledgers will have been downloading Firefox 3 before anyone else.
Every day I get three reports from Orble.com, as no doubt many other people do. The first lists the total number of hits, the second the number of individual readers, the third the homepages and categories and the last the posts. I’m not entirely sure what the third and fourth stats actually tell me, but they’re there anyway.
Today I reached an all time high in the number of hits: 1196. Now you’d think that meant that a certain number of people had hit one or other of your sites that many times in total. That’s what I’d assume, but if that’s the case a lot of them shift on pretty quickly, because the number of individual readers is only 412. I don’t know where this second figure actually comes from, because the detailed stats that Orble gives you don’t seem to tally up with this figure. Never mind, as long as someone’s checking out the site that’s okay. Pity a few more of them didn’t leave comments or vote for the posts. That would make a difference.
I didn’t really start to write about the stats themselves, anyway, but more about the two posts that receive the most attention. For ages the one on this blog that’s got the most attention relates to the Titanic museum. I’m not sure why this is so popular, but there you go. Check it out for yourself.
On my other blog, the top post is a fairly new one, relating to the download record Mozilla Firefox is trying to top so it can get in the Guinness Book of Records. It was written about three weeks ago, and the event it relates to has already begun. In fact, because New Zealand time zone-wise is ahead of everyone else, all 17,857 NZ pledgers will have been downloading Firefox 3 before anyone else.
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