I’ve never ever looked at stats of my site over the years if not the bandwidth usage to check I wasn’t over the limit.
Today I noticed Dreamhost has a page with some of those stats. No idea how to read them, nor I really care.
I never wrote for popularity and I usually try to look at things and write from the critical perspective that most ignore or just plain refuse. Nonconformist, maybe, but always with a reason. I don’t build consensus around me, in fact I build dissent. Always the other perspective that is ignored or that people don’t want to hear. Fighting superficiality, because I think demagogy leads nowhere and what’s relevant is the merit of things, not their form.
I always thought my site was mostly a nest of spiders and spam bots. Google seems to like me a lot (and drives the ‘who’s online’ tab on the right, as the engine counts separately every session over a 10 minutes span). While the sporadic comments that appear should mean that what I wrote isn’t provoking many reactions, nor that I have all that many readers. On the other side my RSS feed has the full entries with the full html, so a few readers may as well never pass from here.
Anyway, if you are curious, here the stats that I gather from the hosting company.
That are kind of weird, as I stopped blogging in May 2007 and resumed more sporadically in September.
Could someone explain that, and the difference between “reqs” and “pages”?
August 2008
Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending Sep 01 2008 at 2:46 AM.
Successful requests: 600,969 (122,329)
Average successful requests per day: 19,374 (17,475)
Successful requests for pages: 20,321 (3,582)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 655 (511)
Failed requests: 28,728 (769)
Redirected requests: 129 (4)
Distinct files requested: 16,154 (2,410)
Distinct hosts served: 31,139 (1,296)
Data transferred: 17.11 gigabytes (3.46 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 564.82 megabytes (506.06 megabytes)
Since 2005
Successful requests: 26,952,758
Average successful requests per day: 21,730
Successful requests for pages: 1,258,912
Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,014
Failed requests: 2,747,368
Redirected requests: 632,606
Data transferred: 1.82 terabytes
Average data transferred per day: 1.50 gigabytes
| month | #reqs | #pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2005 | 74081 | 3602 |  |
| May 2005 | 220271 | 8332 |  |
| Jun 2005 | 290042 | 15685 |  |
| Jul 2005 | 345241 | 18226 | |
| Aug 2005 | 390331 | 25896 | |
| Sep 2005 | 349225 | 24867 | |
| Oct 2005 | 2126969 | 33783 | |
| Nov 2005 | 772307 | 14951 | |
| Dec 2005 | 831798 | 15027 | |
| Jan 2006 | 756081 | 19851 | |
| Feb 2006 | 582753 | 15291 | |
| Mar 2006 | 720480 | 18557 | |
| Apr 2006 | 741392 | 19481 | |
| May 2006 | 888423 | 25298 | |
| Jun 2006 | 1422682 | 31917 | |
| Jul 2006 | 813391 | 20367 | |
| Aug 2006 | 1062365 | 22608 | |
| Sep 2006 | 1140998 | 22507 | |
| Oct 2006 | 919720 | 26405 | |
| Nov 2006 | 774836 | 15918 | |
| Dec 2006 | 751842 | 18024 | |
| Jan 2007 | 793804 | 28062 | |
| Feb 2007 | 787727 | 23291 | |
| Mar 2007 | 931587 | 18905 | |
| Apr 2007 | 947641 | 20497 | |
| May 2007 | 612713 | 90812 |  |
| Jun 2007 | 350314 | 168910 |  |
| Jul 2007 | 309463 | 138651 |  |
| Aug 2007 | 265648 | 100576 | |
| Sep 2007 | 231319 | 51293 | |
| Oct 2007 | 166951 | 38495 | |
| Nov 2007 | 317330 | 9731 | |
| Dec 2007 | 411579 | 12836 | |
| Jan 2008 | 472759 | 11432 | |
| Feb 2008 | 518934 | 13694 | |
| Mar 2008 | 534054 | 14470 | |
| Apr 2008 | 570940 | 14547 | |
| May 2008 | 688676 | 26904 | |
| Jun 2008 | 673631 | 22094 | |
| Jul 2008 | 632170 | 12546 | |
| Aug 2008 | 600734 | 20311 | |
| Sep 2008 | 159556 | 4262 | |