I look at log file summaries for clock every few weeks, just scanning to give myself a snapshot. This morning, I decided to take a look at the actual log files, as I do more often at work. As always, a few interesting lines in there, and this was just from the first 7 hours of Sunday, May 23.
Lots of requests from Cyveillance (63.148.99.233), as Gulker mentioned a year ago. Makes even a lazy man want to do something to block them, just because.
A few reasonable requests from “Pompos/1.3 http://dir.com/pompos.html”. Never heard of the Dir.com search engine. Looks French.
Returning to the summary, I learn that just over one-third of my pageviews are requests for my RSS file. Hardly a surprise… could be higher, since I do full-text in the feed. More than 60% of my entries and exits are on the RSS file, so some bots or some people are turning a few pages per session. Glad to see that 30% of the requests received a 304 (not modified) HTTP code, saving me a tiny bit of bandwidth. Storage, more than bandwidth, is my issue, but I don’t want to delete/export these logs unless absolutely necessary.
101 Google searchers made their way to clock so far this month, outpacing MSN and Yahoo 10x. Top search? Twelve people found this site in May by typing “pulo prabang” into Google and then visiting the first result, where I wondered where that island is (from the Aubrey-Maturin series, to which I’m about to return).
I have better things to do, but it is interesting… you start to see some of the appeal of FeedBurner when you try to get a handle on what people (not just machines) are actually reading. It’s not simple.