stats (again)
Posted by Ian Holsman
so in my never ending question to get my page analyzed in every which way I installed railstat for my blog. if you want to see how popular this blog really is go look for yourself. I’ll keep it up for a little bit.. but in general I like to keep this stuff protected.
why?
well.. two reasons.
I don’t know how well this application is written, and although I keep track of security alerts as part of my day job, i’d rather minimize the footprint on my home box.
It’s a open abuse for spam. there are a lot of bots out there which use fake referrals for things like casino’s and viagra and it from what I can see this page doesn’t use ‘nofollow’ and is wide open for abuse in that fashion.
It’s none of your damn business how many hits I get anyway ;-)
at the end of the day, the numbers are meaningless, as they don’t take into account RSS feeds, and there is no ‘time scale’ and from what I can see most people don’t ‘browse’ blogs, they come directly in to a page via a search or RSS feed, or they just hit the front door.
But I still like to look at them.
and talking about stats, why can’t del.icio.us show me ALL the people who have tagged a url on this host? inquiring minds want to know.