Myriad
by Jonathan Quince
Monday, March 21, 2005 07:05:12
A bit over a year past, we recorded the thousandth hit to the Log’s page counter. Now, we’ve officially rolled past 10,000.
The ten-thousandth unique consecutive visit to the Log frontpage since 2003-12-31 occurred on Friday, March 18, 2005 at 06:25:20 -08:00. The lucky visitor was someone without rDNS in the 63.*.*.* range (part of a Sprint-operated 63.160.0.0/12 block). He/she/it arrived deep within the site via a Google Image Search for “micro bikini” and clicked through a few archive pages before hitting the myriad jackpot. The user-agent bringing home 55,161 bytes of Loggity goodness was Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP with the .NET CLR 1.1 installed.
As a matter of policy, anybody who hits an order-of-magnitude milestone here at Sopef.org is entitled to a ten-second imaginary lapdance from Rachel K. []. Unfortunately, Mr./Ms. 63.*.*.* did not leave a calling card at the time, so the prize is void. Better luck next time, Sixty-Three-Dot-Star-Star-Star.
Next stop: 100,000!
In comparison of the Log to the rest of the site, between 2003-10-25 07:45 -08:00 and 2005-03-19 00:11 -08:00, Sopef.org served the following:
- 413,329 successful HTTP requests
- 184,469 successful requests for pages
- 14,381 redirected requests
- 6,451 failed requests
- 2.03 gigabytes of data
- 361 average successful requests for pages per day (1,575 average per day in the seven most-recent days)
That is approximately the amount of traffic one sees in the first two hours of a Slashdotting. Our readership is growing steadily, however: Our 2005 traffic to date has almost equaled our traffic for the entire year of 2004, and last month was by far our busiest full month yet. (It was also the busiest posting month yet. Coincidence?) Also, our bandwidth consumption is extraordinarily low because we serve almost exclusively text; if we expand (as we hope) to other types of content in the future, we shall need a much thicker pipe.