Dom's Rambles

I installed a new web stats package this week seeing as the one that comes with the web space is basic to say the least. Okay, I could see how many visitors I’d had, their network and IP number, which pages had been accessed and which files had been downloaded (although in neither case by whom) but that was about it. For someone with the kind of quasi-stalkerish tendencies I have this was grossly inadequate, so I installed a better one.

While we’re talking statistics, the blog and website combined average between four and five hundred visitors a day (the photobucket site where the pictures live gets double that and the highest monthly figure we ever had was slightly less than 50,000 hits during June of this year). This is modest to the point of insignificance by Friends Reunited standards but it still represents the equivalent of a capacity crowd at the Hallam FM Arena every month and twice the population of Lincoln in a year. I don’t think that’s too bad for an overwrought neurotic venting his frustrations into cyberspace (obviously this isn’t as articulate or cerebral an outlet for said frustrations as, for example, starting a pub brawl, but then I can only dream of attaining such dizzying heights of sophistication).

I’m still figuring out the intricacies of the new software and how to interpret the information it provides, but I have been able to ascertain a number of things thus far. Firstly the site gets a lot of hits from the networked computers on a particular American university campus and from this I have deluded myself into believing that I have a cult readership amongst the student body. Also, I see that at two o’clock on Tuesday afternoon a certain Ms Harvey (or someone from her workplace) arrived at the site via a Google web search on my name. Really, I’m quite disappointed - and more than a little hurt - that you haven’t even got me bookmarked!