Luthiery Laboratories

I put the finishing touches on the web stats programming, and after a few days I can confirm that most of the traffic on the internet is bots. That is, machines querying other machines. Only about 20-25% of the traffic is human beings. So if you're one of those, consider yourself special.

- Human	509,819 hits (61%) on 425 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	146 hits on 60 pages	since yesterday
- Google	172,140 hits (20%) on 425 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	127 hits on 81 pages	since yesterday
- Bots	158,887 hits (19%)	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	117 hits	since yesterday

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Most-Recent Hits since 2024/01/16 22:44 EST

1. Stratocaster Bass VI
2. Just Give Me a God-Damn Bass Line !!!
3. Telecaster Bass
4. Sharp Fret Ends
5. Walnut
6. Factory Mods
7. Rickenbacker 325 Guitar
8. Danelectro Pro-1 Bass
9. Silvertone 1448 Guitar & Amp
10. Stratocaster Bass IV

Most-Recent Googlings since 2024/01/16 22:44 EST

1. Server Caching Madness
2. Telecaster Bass
3. Danelectro Pro-1 Guitar
4. Templates
5. Rickenbacker 325 Bass 1
6. Stratocaster Bass VI
7. Brazing
8. Kubicki Factor Bass
9. Single-Acting Truss Rod
10. Projects

Top Pages since 2024/01/16 22:44 EST

1. Fret Slotting Jig
2. Danelectro Bridges
3. Masonite
4. Telecaster Bass
5. Laboratory
6. Silvertone 1448 Guitar & Amp
7. Fretboards
8. Projects
9. Polyurethane - UV-Cure
10. Links

Top Googlings since 2024/01/16 22:44 EST

1. Telecaster Bass
2. Rickenbacker 4001 Bass 1
3. Danelectro Bridges
4. Stratocaster Bass VI
5. Jazzmaster Bass 1
6. Funnies
7. Stratocaster Micro Bass 1
8. Fretboards
9. Finishing Oils
10. Sitar Bridge

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Pages: Last 14 Days

2025/04/17 -- 895 -- 509,673 -- Thursday
2025/04/16 -- 1,315 -- 508,778 -- Wednesday
2025/04/15 -- 916 -- 507,463 -- Tuesday
2025/04/14 -- 816 -- 506,547 -- Monday

2025/04/13 -- 836 -- 505,731 -- Sunday
2025/04/12 -- 670 -- 504,895 -- Saturday
2025/04/11 -- 1,078 -- 504,225 -- Friday
2025/04/10 -- 848 -- 503,147 -- Thursday
2025/04/09 -- 853 -- 502,299 -- Wednesday
2025/04/08 -- 813 -- 501,446 -- Tuesday
2025/04/07 -- 922 -- 500,633 -- Monday

2025/04/06 -- 868 -- 499,711 -- Sunday
2025/04/05 -- 743 -- 498,843 -- Saturday
2025/04/04 -- 1,438 -- 498,100 -- Friday

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Google: Last 14 Days

2025/04/17 -- 492 -- 172,013 -- Thursday
2025/04/16 -- 656 -- 171,521 -- Wednesday
2025/04/15 -- 729 -- 170,865 -- Tuesday
2025/04/14 -- 462 -- 170,136 -- Monday

2025/04/13 -- 549 -- 169,674 -- Sunday
2025/04/12 -- 563 -- 169,125 -- Saturday
2025/04/11 -- 458 -- 168,562 -- Friday
2025/04/10 -- 563 -- 168,104 -- Thursday
2025/04/09 -- 211 -- 167,541 -- Wednesday
2025/04/08 -- 91 -- 167,330 -- Tuesday
2025/04/07 -- 534 -- 167,239 -- Monday

2025/04/06 -- 403 -- 166,705 -- Sunday
2025/04/05 -- 455 -- 166,302 -- Saturday
2025/04/04 -- 504 -- 165,847 -- Friday

Originally I used the built-in WordPress functions to update the counters. Those are big general-purpose routines that are slow and ponderous, and I noticed that there was some 'slippage' - numbers that should agree would slowly fall out of sync. So for the counter operations, I wrote my own code, which does only one thing, and does it very fast and reliably.

WordPress also provides hints for some browsers to 'pre-fetch' pages. In other words, the browser downloads a whole second page in the background on the off chance that you might look at it. Apart from doubling the load on the server and network, this also makes it impossible to keep accurate counts, so I turned that 'feature' off. Who thinks of these things?