A quick look at my blog's web statistics
Posted by Tom Moertel Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:43:00 GMT
Every so often I check the stats for my blog to see which articles are popular and learn how people are finding the blog. I just checked the stats today, and, if you are curious, here is a summary of what I found.
Most popular articles
As of today, for the month of July 2006, the ten most-visited articles on my blog are as follows:
- (235) Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails
- (229) Verizon FiOS fiber-optic Internet service: a first look
- (149) Good stuff: Aldo Coffee Company
- (127) Concurrent port scanner in Haskell
- (121) Mining gold from the Internet Movie Database, part 1: decoding user ratings
- (118) New server arrives: my adventure in Dell customer-support Hell
- (110) Open-source statistics: R and ESS
- (103) Power parsing with Haskell and Parsec
- (093) Dell-support follow-up survey
- (089) Unofficial answers to FAQs about Giant Eagle’s ‘fuelperks’ gas discount
The numbers in parentheses are the articles’ relative-popularity scores. Each score tells you how popular an article was when compared to the blog’s root page, which has a reference score of 1000.
Most popular search keywords
The ten most popular search keywords that led people to my blog are as follows:
Many of these were combined with other terms as part of a search phrase. For example, “rails” was often used in the following phrases:
- rails link_to
- rails button_to
- rails button helper
- rails link_to html_options
- rails form confirm
- confirm form post rails
- user agent in rails
Spam
Over the last 30 days, there have been on average 244 attempts per day to post spam to my blog (stdev = 96).
That’s it
And that’s the stats!
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