According to the statistics counter, traffic on the site is a bit more than 7x normal for a Monday morning. The last time something like this happened was when People magazine published a blurb about CIDU.
Or… the statistics counter might have lost its mind.
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Can you compare with other holiday weeks?
Holiday weeks tend to be slower than normal.
According to the counter, this is already the largest daily number of visitors since the site was resurrected, almost all coming from “Google Search,” which tells me nothing.
It’s a puzzlement.
Ah, at one time I used an analysis program (free and open source) that ran off of pretty standard Apache log files. No,I mean Apache log files with some options turned on. Anyway, one feature was showing you the search terms used by visitors who got to your site from a search engine.
It was Webalizer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webalizer
One last thought. Your analysis packet even if it does not give you search strings, may be able to give you numbers for visits arriving on which page of the site, if not home. Specific articles / entries, if accessed directly, will show different page URLs than just the home.
Home page, Mitch, which tells me nothing.
It’ll probably turn out some guy named Harry Cidu is sleeping with a Kardashian.
” . . . People magazine published a blurb about CIDU.”
Before my time on CIDU; does anyone have a copy?
Unfortunately, Andréa, I do not have a copy of the magazine and I don’t remember the exact date (somewhere around 2003, I think).
One of these days I’m going to have to find a library that has physical back issues of People.
Good luck with that . . . I wonder how many libraries carry even current copies . . . .
Seems to be a PEOPLE archive, but one has to be a member/have a subscription to access it.
And People’s search program is slightly less sophisticated than “Ask Jeeves.”
When I said “library,” though, I was thinking about the New York Public Library, whose resources seem to be infinite.
Do you remember who was on the cover? If it is issued weekly, that’s a lotta periodicals to look thru.
Okay, the site hit “Most One-Day Traffic Ever” about an hour ago — but since I suspect a glitch, I guess that statistic will be meaningless going forward. Like baseball’s home run tecord after some player filled with steroids hits 100 in one season.
Andréa, no clue.
I do know it was in their “Interesting and Recommended” section (or whatever the exact name is), which should make the search A BIT less horrible.
To paraphrase Kipling: You’re a stronger man than I, Gunga Din . . .
Well, here in Day Two, I think it’s safe to say this site no longer has a statistics counter: the numbers are now slightly less accurate than the Macy’s estimate of how many people watch their parade.
HEY! ALL YOU NEWBIES!!! Please put Bill out of his misery and tell him how you got here. We’re a (mostly) friendly crowd, and we don’t bite. In anger, anyway.
Chak, there hasn’t been a single comment by a new visitor over the past few days, which is a statistical oddity even when traffic ISN’T about 6x normal.
So unless the site’s been discovered by The International Brotherhood of Mimes, this is a glitch.
The International Brotherhood of Mimes makes sense. They share a common lack of language.
Could CIDU have been mentioned in a comic strip? I found you when Jimmy Johnson mentioned CIDU in a strip.
Meryl, CIDU’s been mentioned a bunch of times over the years (at least three times by Jimmy, bless him), generally accompanied by a bump. But the lack of a SINGLE comment by a new visitor (nor even an uptick in spam) leads me to believe, alas, that the stat counter simply lost its mind for a couple of days.
Ah, I forgot all the data I have at my disposal (which, of course is useless if it’s not accurate). According to said data, the site had visitors from over 160 countries and territories Monday and Tuesday (about 20 is normal), the vast majority coming from India and American Samoa. I wonder how many Samoans are even online.
Basically, the entire map is filled in.
maybe somebody’s testing a botnet
BillR: Yeah, botnet is what came to my mind, too.
That’s s’moar than you would think