Blog Milestones

Congratulations to Conrad Barwa for the 1500th comment.

Also, my weblog now has had visitors from 100 countries. (Probably not technically accurate since I determined that by the top-level domains in DNS lookups of the IP addresses.) The latest two countries: Guyana and Sri Lanka.

Some time in the last month or so, I also passed a total of 50,000 visits according to Sitemeter. As an aside, Sitemeter consistently undercounts my visitors. There have been times when I am chatting with Amber or my sister and even though they are visiting my blog at the time, Sitemeter does not show any visit. However, the Apache logs on my server confirm their visit.

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By Zack

Dad, gadget guy, bookworm, political animal, global nomad, cyclist, hiker, tennis player, photographer

9 comments

  1. Congrats on hitting another milestone!

    However, I have noticed in the logs on my site, that it seems that over 50 percent of ‘visitors’ are actually various bots doing whatever it is that bots do. Sitemeter though shouldn’t be counting bots as it relies on an image being downloaded, which almost no bot download.

    Also, Why not just parse your Apache logs using one of the many free softwares available, instead of sitemeter?

  2. Very nice, but Zack, as you know we Indians need our sops and freebies, so what do I get for this honour. I was kind of hoping for some nubile young women or gold but I will settle for some free drinks; or some decent mangoes. Stuff here is awful.

  3. KO: Thanks. Yeah, the analog log analyzer that my web server uses shows a lot of bots. That’s one of the reasons I was using Sitemeter. The other is that Sitemeter gives me instant info while the log analyzer is scheduled once a day. Also, I can’t change many options for analog as it is configured by my hosting company.

    I have downloaded AWStats now which does separate bots from human visits. I have to set it up when I have some time.

    Conrad: Sorry to disappoint you but I am not in the nubile young women business. 🙂 And trust me you don’t want to eat Atlanta mangoes (technically not from Atlanta). So drinks it is. Beer or whatever else you prefer. Let me know when you are in Atlanta or NY/NJ area.

  4. Sorry to disappoint you but I am not in the nubile young women business. 🙂

    Sigh, somehow I didn’t think you would be. Well on the minus side, you will never win an Indian election with this attitude; on the positive side however, this will guarantee you a happier domestic life as wives, so I am told tend not to be happy about this kind of thing. Rather unreasonably, I think, but there you go.

  5. And if you could only know that your blog is up for award race at Asian Blog Awards? May be here you should need all of your family members to vote too 🙂
    on stats, I used to enjoy reading and staring RAW LOGs, which became pain in the ass and I ended up viewing one or another but never as satisfied as the simple long RAW LOGs give you the detail and fun. If I were ever so serious about logs analysis, I wouldn’t rely on popular software (most of which are free), however.

  6. Conrad:
    this will guarantee you a happier domestic life as wives, so I am told tend not to be happy about this kind of thing.

    See it was a choice between 9 (upto now) blissful years of marriage or the nubile young women business.

    Ejaz: I got a few referrals from there, so I know. I am wondering who nominated me and if I even qualify as a Pakistani weblog.

  7. See it was a choice between 9 (upto now) blissful years of marriage or the nubile young women business.

    Well, I am sure you are happy and all but I still can’t help feeling that you would be smiling a lot more in the photos if you were in the business.

  8. The one nominating you was none else than yours truly. So was it wrong? Your kasmir posts have been one of the best ones reported and I am already waiting for some more pictures.

  9. Stephens: Welcome.

    I did a search in the search engines on “company blog” and I found your web blog.

    Interesting!

    I also was interested in a blog for myself.

    Well, weblogs are fun and can be a good source of sharing info as well. Everyone blogs for a different reason though.

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