Stats
Posted by Charlie
Perhaps this is a bit vain, but after my first week of blogging I was curious how many people had wandered through.
I’ve heard people say good things about awstats so I gave it try (although it is written in Perl of all things :) I now know the answer - 324. Thanks to all of you, that’s about 300 more than I thought! In case you’d like to check it out, I’ve added a link in the sidebar to the stats. They’ll update themselves every night around 3am.
Things that struck me:
- The large gif at the top made up 50% of the download bandwidth. Sure enough, the image was a 66k gif. I’ve now slimmed it down to a 28k jpeg.
- There are lots of bots out there - Google, Yahoo, MSN, Blogline, Feedster, etc.
- There have been exactly 2 referrals from search engines. Although they’ve all crawled the site, it hasn’t made it into the indexes yet. I remember it took about 10 days for Yue’s blog to show up in the index.
- The vast majority of referrals have come through Artima. But 18 have come through Peter’s blog - thanks Peter!
Last, thanks to Pat and his ruby script that automatically runs awstats.
