Teleidoscope

Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Status of the Weblog: 2006 - 2007

Posted at 10:30 pm MST to Miscellaneous

Hello. Welcome.

I know there are readers out there. Please feel free to make real (as opposed to spam) comments. And email me using the link at the upper left of the blog if the commenting mechanisms aren't working right.

According to the logs, the weblog was accessed in 2006 on 74 separate days by 150 users who weren't bots, out of a total of 491 userids. The number of 150 is probably a bit high: at least 2 of the users are me (with different access points for Boulder and Boston) and the filter doesn't quite recognize all of the bot varieties, and a couple of those userids were the spammers I was struggling with last month.

The number 491 is inflated by the fact that the Yahoo indexing bots use a gazillion different ip addresses, unlike the indexers for most other sites, which I tend to think is a little obnoxious and probably inefficient.

Two of the bots that are still included in the 150 are YodaoBot, which seems to be a Chinese indexer, and wadaino.jp-crawler which is Japanese. I think it's neat that my sites are being indexed all overt he world, but tend to wonder how useful my ramblings will be to non-English speakers.

Checking the logs for the January 1, and January 2 up to about 9:30 pm, I see 19 non-bot visits on the first, and 17 non-bot visits for the second (so far), spread out over 11 non-bot users.

This makes me very happy: I need an audience in order to write, and knowing there are people reading my stuff helps keep the writer's block away.

So Thank You All. And once again, welcome.

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