{"id":1773,"date":"2008-09-11T03:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:30:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-11T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T12:59:59","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1773\/","title":{"rendered":"How popular I am"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Today I noticed Dreamhost has a page with some of those stats. No idea how to read them, nor I really care.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you are curious, here the stats that I gather from the hosting company.<\/p>\n

That are kind of weird, as I stopped blogging in May 2007 and resumed more sporadically in September.<\/p>\n

Could someone explain that, and the difference between “reqs” and “pages”?<\/p>\n

Stats<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n

August 2008<\/b><\/p>\n

Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending Sep 01 2008 at 2:46 AM.<\/p>\n

Successful requests<\/b>: 600,969 (122,329)
\nAverage successful requests per day<\/b>: 19,374 (17,475)
\nSuccessful requests for pages<\/b>: 20,321 (3,582)
\nAverage successful requests for pages per day<\/b>: 655 (511)
\nFailed requests<\/b>: 28,728 (769)
\nRedirected requests<\/b>: 129 (4)
\nDistinct files requested<\/b>: 16,154 (2,410)
\nDistinct hosts served<\/b>: 31,139 (1,296)
\nData transferred<\/b>: 17.11 gigabytes (3.46 gigabytes)
\nAverage data transferred per day<\/b>: 564.82 megabytes (506.06 megabytes) <\/p>\n

Since 2005<\/b><\/p>\n

Successful requests<\/b>: 26,952,758
\nAverage successful requests per day<\/b>: 21,730
\nSuccessful requests for pages<\/b>: 1,258,912
\nAverage successful requests for pages per day<\/b>: 1,014
\nFailed requests<\/b>: 2,747,368
\nRedirected requests<\/b>: 632,606
\nData transferred<\/b>: 1.82 terabytes
\nAverage data transferred per day<\/b>: 1.50 gigabytes <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
month<\/th>\n#reqs<\/th>\n#pages<\/th>\n <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Apr 2005<\/td>\n74081<\/td>\n3602<\/td>\n\"+\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2005<\/td>\n220271<\/td>\n8332<\/td>\n\"++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 2005<\/td>\n290042<\/td>\n15685<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 2005<\/td>\n345241<\/td>\n18226<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2005<\/td>\n390331<\/td>\n25896<\/td>\n\"++++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 2005<\/td>\n349225<\/td>\n24867<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2005<\/td>\n2126969<\/td>\n33783<\/td>\n\"+++++++\"\"\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2005<\/td>\n772307<\/td>\n14951<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2005<\/td>\n831798<\/td>\n15027<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 2006<\/td>\n756081<\/td>\n19851<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 2006<\/td>\n582753<\/td>\n15291<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2006<\/td>\n720480<\/td>\n18557<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 2006<\/td>\n741392<\/td>\n19481<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2006<\/td>\n888423<\/td>\n25298<\/td>\n\"++++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 2006<\/td>\n1422682<\/td>\n31917<\/td>\n\"+++++++\"\"\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 2006<\/td>\n813391<\/td>\n20367<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2006<\/td>\n1062365<\/td>\n22608<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 2006<\/td>\n1140998<\/td>\n22507<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2006<\/td>\n919720<\/td>\n26405<\/td>\n\"++++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2006<\/td>\n774836<\/td>\n15918<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2006<\/td>\n751842<\/td>\n18024<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 2007<\/td>\n793804<\/td>\n28062<\/td>\n\"++++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 2007<\/td>\n787727<\/td>\n23291<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2007<\/td>\n931587<\/td>\n18905<\/td>\n\"++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 2007<\/td>\n947641<\/td>\n20497<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2007<\/td>\n612713<\/td>\n90812<\/td>\n\"+++++++++++++++++++\"\"\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 2007<\/td>\n350314<\/td>\n168910<\/td>\n\"++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 2007<\/td>\n309463<\/td>\n138651<\/td>\n\"++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\"\"\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2007<\/td>\n265648<\/td>\n100576<\/td>\n\"+++++++++++++++++++++\"\"\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 2007<\/td>\n231319<\/td>\n51293<\/td>\n\"+++++++++++\"\"\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2007<\/td>\n166951<\/td>\n38495<\/td>\n\"++++++++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2007<\/td>\n317330<\/td>\n9731<\/td>\n\"++\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2007<\/td>\n411579<\/td>\n12836<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 2008<\/td>\n472759<\/td>\n11432<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 2008<\/td>\n518934<\/td>\n13694<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2008<\/td>\n534054<\/td>\n14470<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 2008<\/td>\n570940<\/td>\n14547<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2008<\/td>\n688676<\/td>\n26904<\/td>\n\"++++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 2008<\/td>\n673631<\/td>\n22094<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 2008<\/td>\n632170<\/td>\n12546<\/td>\n\"+++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2008<\/td>\n600734<\/td>\n20311<\/td>\n\"+++++\"\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 2008<\/td>\n159556<\/td>\n4262<\/td>\n\"+\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}