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	375,617 hits (66%) on 423 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	63 hits on 35 pages	since yesterday
- Google	100,092 hits (18%) on 423 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	164 hits on 119 pages	since yesterday
- Bots	91,663 hits (16%)	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	181 hits	since yesterday

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

1. Fret Slotting Jig
2. Just Give Me a God-Damn Bass Line !!!
3. Audiovox Electric Upright Bass
4. Rickenbacker 325 Bass 2
5. Sitar Bridge
6. Truss Rods
7. Danelectro Bridges
8. Tesla & Twain
9. Piezos & Buffers
10. Reverse Fenderbird

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

1. Audiovox Solid-Body Guitar
2. The Problem With WordPress Plugins
3. Masonite
4. Still Great - Mark Knopfler
5. Samick Artist Series SG450
6. More Variations on a Theme
7. Website Improvements
8. Templates & Jigs
9. Grinders
10. Audiovox Stratocaster-Style Guitar

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. Projects
7. Masonite
8. Rickenbacker 4001 Bass 1
9. Links
10. Fretboards

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

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

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Pages: Last 14 Days

2024/11/22 -- 767 -- 375,554 -- Friday
2024/11/22 -- 0 -- 374,787 -- Friday
2024/11/21 -- 697 -- 374,787 -- Thursday
2024/11/20 -- 604 -- 374,090 -- Wednesday
2024/11/19 -- 713 -- 373,486 -- Tuesday
2024/11/18 -- 753 -- 372,773 -- Monday

2024/11/17 -- 685 -- 372,020 -- Sunday
2024/11/16 -- 753 -- 371,335 -- Saturday
2024/11/15 -- 693 -- 370,582 -- Friday
2024/11/14 -- 662 -- 369,889 -- Thursday
2024/11/13 -- 716 -- 369,227 -- Wednesday
2024/11/12 -- 842 -- 368,511 -- Tuesday
2024/11/11 -- 850 -- 367,669 -- Monday

2024/11/10 -- 741 -- 366,819 -- Sunday

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Google: Last 14 Days

2024/11/22 -- 395 -- 99,928 -- Friday
2024/11/22 -- 0 -- 99,533 -- Friday
2024/11/21 -- 267 -- 99,533 -- Thursday
2024/11/20 -- 221 -- 99,266 -- Wednesday
2024/11/19 -- 785 -- 99,045 -- Tuesday
2024/11/18 -- 774 -- 98,260 -- Monday

2024/11/17 -- 470 -- 97,486 -- Sunday
2024/11/16 -- 466 -- 97,016 -- Saturday
2024/11/15 -- 406 -- 96,550 -- Friday
2024/11/14 -- 659 -- 96,144 -- Thursday
2024/11/13 -- 713 -- 95,485 -- Wednesday
2024/11/12 -- 527 -- 94,772 -- Tuesday
2024/11/11 -- 581 -- 94,245 -- Monday

2024/11/10 -- 566 -- 93,664 -- Sunday

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?