The Vagaries of the Internet
The 20,000th person to visit this site, as measured by Sitemeter.com, was someone from Houston, Arkansas who did a Google search for “alcohol on sunday oklahoma” at 4:43: 09 p.m. today, staying for “0 seconds.” Getting ready for a road trip I guess. Appropriately, given the title of the blog, they were getting ready, rather than working, while surfing from something called Windstream Communications. An example of one of Google’s algorithm’s failures based on a couple of posts I’ve done on Georgia’s stupid liquor laws.
The next person to visit the site was Jay, checking to see if I’d responded to his comment on my last post about the decline of the AJC. I haven’t, I’ll get around to it. Keep clicking to see.
Which brings us to the next person, number 20,002, coming from AJC.com, clicking in from the kind link to the last post from Scott Freeman, a Creative Loafing (Atlanta’s weekly “alternative” paper, with a daily online presence) writer. CL does a daily online post called Atlanta blogs today. I’m one of the links today. Thanks. The AJC person stayed for a minute and 53 seconds: a speed reader. I got several longer looks from AJC people earlier in the day, the highlight being a visit from someone from Cox Newspapers in Washington, DC. They all came via the link from Creative Loafing. Again thanks, Scott, the folks at the AJC are paying attention to you; and, you got me a good share of the 51 hits and 106 page views so far today.
To all of you who wander past on a regular basis, thanks. For those of you visiting today from the Creative Loafing link, thanks, come back and I invite you to visit some of the people who comment and who are listed in the Recommended sidebar. Some good writing is available at the click of your mouse.
7 comments:
Interesting little blog you got here.
My wife and I just moved down to these parts so I could take a teaching job at Clayton State.
If you don't mind, I'll link to you (my blog is http://walkinbrain.wesflinn.com).
WF
The 20,000th came and went and I missed it. That's what I get for over-reliance on the feed reader. That link should net you some new readers. It's a good bet that some of them will stick around, you know, rather than working.
Did you get FISA clearance for the web traffic monitoring you are doing? Kind of spooky.
Dave -- the 20,000th person to visit? Or the 20,000th visit?
There is a difference.
If I return to your site ten times in a week -- from my phone, my work connection, and my home connection -- that would be recorded as ten visits by three unique visitors. But, try as I might to emulate the trinity, I am still but a single visitor.
Only reason I ask is not to let any air out of your balloon, but to see just how far behind I really am...
As of today, since I started keeping track June 10, 2007, I have had 5,703 visits from 1,612 unique visitors, most of whom seem to be searching for "porn for beginners" and leaving immediately -- most likely because there is only "porn for pseudointellectuals" there.
Alas Pos, it is only 20K total, you counting for more than your share. Sitemeter doesn't give a unigue count, at least in the free version. As I think I said in a post or a comment not too long ago, according to Big Rick, I have twenty faithful readers with not much to do; and, I'm greatful to all of you.
Jay, I had a clearance from the last Attorney General in process; then, he just disapperared. I'm doing this on a recess appointment basis, or something like that. So far Mukasey doesn't seem to mind, Obama voted for the immunization of the telecoms and I know McCain won't give me a problem. So, I'm thinking, I'm cool.
I have plenty to do. I'd just rather be doing something else...
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