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	403,073 hits (64%) on 423 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	279 hits on 87 pages	since yesterday
- Google	117,586 hits (19%) on 423 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	247 hits on 123 pages	since yesterday
- Bots	104,956 hits (17%)	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	86 hits	since yesterday

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

1. Horse Ukulele Kit
2. Stratocaster Bass VI
3. KMise "Crunch" Distortion Pedal
4. Series Wiring
5. Passive Electronics
6. Parallel Wiring
7. Balance Pot Uses
8. StewMac and Tools
9. Masonite
10. Passive Distortion

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

1. Airbrushing "Off the Grid"
2. Funnies
3. Fretboard Radiusing
4. KMise Tremolo Pedal
5. Telecaster Bass
6. Stratocaster 12-String Guitar
7. Poplar
8. Reverse Fenderbird
9. Finishing Oils
10. Fretboards

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

1. Fret Slotting Jig
2. Danelectro Bridges
3. Telecaster Bass
4. Laboratory
5. Silvertone 1448 Guitar & Amp
6. Masonite
7. Projects
8. Fretboards
9. Links
10. Rickenbacker 4001 Bass 1

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

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

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Pages: Last 14 Days

2024/12/26 -- 711 -- 402,794 -- Thursday
2024/12/25 -- 700 -- 402,083 -- Wednesday
2024/12/24 -- 668 -- 401,383 -- Tuesday
2024/12/23 -- 771 -- 400,715 -- Monday

2024/12/22 -- 711 -- 399,944 -- Sunday
2024/12/21 -- 696 -- 399,233 -- Saturday
2024/12/20 -- 807 -- 398,537 -- Friday
2024/12/19 -- 910 -- 397,730 -- Thursday
2024/12/18 -- 1,030 -- 396,820 -- Wednesday
2024/12/17 -- 1,593 -- 395,790 -- Tuesday
2024/12/16 -- 797 -- 394,197 -- Monday

2024/12/15 -- 1,297 -- 393,400 -- Sunday
2024/12/14 -- 640 -- 392,103 -- Saturday
2024/12/13 -- 684 -- 391,463 -- Friday

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Google: Last 14 Days

2024/12/26 -- 345 -- 117,339 -- Thursday
2024/12/25 -- 574 -- 116,994 -- Wednesday
2024/12/24 -- 748 -- 116,420 -- Tuesday
2024/12/23 -- 621 -- 115,672 -- Monday

2024/12/22 -- 531 -- 115,051 -- Sunday
2024/12/21 -- 660 -- 114,520 -- Saturday
2024/12/20 -- 521 -- 113,860 -- Friday
2024/12/19 -- 424 -- 113,339 -- Thursday
2024/12/18 -- 326 -- 112,915 -- Wednesday
2024/12/17 -- 382 -- 112,589 -- Tuesday
2024/12/16 -- 715 -- 112,207 -- Monday

2024/12/15 -- 348 -- 111,492 -- Sunday
2024/12/14 -- 574 -- 111,144 -- Saturday
2024/12/13 -- 475 -- 110,570 -- 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?