Waaaaa

[indri]

I just installed hit counters on my website for the first time. As soon as I uploaded the edited pages, I logged in to get my stats.

And someone was reading my webpages!

I know this shouldn't surprise me but...I dunno, I always think of my website as a bit of a ghost town, with most of my feedback coming from somewhere busy like All About Spike. But no, it seems I can log in randomly and find people reading.

*is stunned*

Brief note to speakr2customrs: I've had a quick look at the site you mentioned. GPL is good but I'm wondering if it's not designed for people running their sites off home servers. I'm just using a .Mac site for weenies.

Update: I've just had a visitor who got there by searching for "Weetabix". I hope the poor sod isn't just looking for breakfast cereal info...

I must resist the urge to just sit, hitting "refresh". Must get back to writing more fic.

Last update, really: Turns out I'm the third link from the top if you google for "Weetabix". That's scary. (I'm fourth from the top under "indri" and top under poor old "archaeoindri".)

Comments

[shapinglight]

I have no idea how web counters work. So you can actually tell when people are visiting your site? Can you tell what they're reading as well?

[indri]

The particular one I'm using tells you how many people visited your site on any given day or month since you installed the counter. It tries to measure how many of them are different people and how many (but not which) pages they've clicked through to. It doesn't count the better-known robots. It also gives some info about how they got there and what country they're from (if it can tell).

You register at a website and then copy some invisible html onto your webpages.

I haven't installed one before because I was afraid there would be very few hits and I'd get depressed.

[shapinglight]

That's interesting. if I ever manage to get through peasant_'s html lessons to the point where I have an actual website that works, I'll have to try this.

On the other hand, it's possible I'd end up depressed then.

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

I must resist the urge to just sit, hitting "refresh"

Hehe. When I first got a website with stats, I was utterly addicted to that. It's so nice to know people actually, like, visit and apparently read. My stats aren't very high, but it's enough to make it worth it - don't knot how I lived without them ;)

[indri]

I'm finding the referring links amusing. While sometimes people google for a story name, other times it's for "motorcyclist loses jaw".

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Yes, Google produces some weird results. Among recent referrals to my site (entirely devoted to Buffy) are:

bullfighting barbie
luminous socks
invisible zombie armadillos
and
copulating dogs videos free