September 14, 2020
Is This Worth It?
September 14, 2020
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.
| * Pages | Search | Total | Misses | * Today | ||
| Humans | 99729 | 205 | 99934 | 44.0% | 12918 | 423 |
| 56406 | 5 | 56411 | 24.8% | 2538 | 95 | |
| Bing | 28027 | 505 | 28532 | 12.6% | 3256 | 72 |
| Meta | 28364 | 7 | 28371 | 12.5% | 6363 | 147 |
| Apple | 2512 | 3 | 2515 | 1.1% | 235 | 7 |
| DDG | 1462 | 0 | 1462 | 0.6% | 34 | 14 |
| Bots | 9947 | 8 | 9955 | 4.4% | 5650 | 38 |
| Total | 226447 | 733 | 227180 | 100% | 30994 | 796 |
* includes pages, posts and archives since 2025-12-05
Top Hits
Most-Recent Hits
| 1 | Neck Shaping |
| 2 | Building Necks |
| 3 | # Handy CSS |
| 4 | Fretboards |
| 5 | Conversion Necks |
| 6 | Laboratory |
| 7 | Files & Rasps |
| 8 | Benchtop Belt Sander |
| 9 | # Is This Worth It? |
| 10 | Cutting |
| 11 | Fret Saw |
| 12 | Hand Saws |
| 13 | Materials & Hardware |
| 14 | Projects |
| 15 | # Not Funny |
| 16 | Polyurethane - Water-Based |
| 17 | # Bindings Again, and etc |
| 18 | Side Markers |
| 19 | # WordPress 5.5 |
| 20 | Sitar Bridge |
| 21 | Templates |
| 22 | Installing Frets |
| 23 | Truss Rod Channel Jig |
| 24 | Piezos & Buffers |
| 25 | Danelectro Longhorn Bass |
| 26 | Ridgid Belt/Spindle Sander |
| 27 | Intonation |
| 28 | Non-Adjustable Truss Rods |
| 29 | Kubicki Factor Guitar |
| 30 | Danelectro Pro-1 Guitar |
| 31 | "Tonewood" |
| 32 | Silvertone 1448 Guitar & Amp |
| 33 | # Took Some Time Off |
| 34 | Silvertone U-1 "Dolphin" Guitar |
| 35 | Cutting Plastics |
| 36 | # The Matching Guitar |
| 37 | Spraying |
| 38 | Finishing |
| 39 | Electronics & Wiring |
| 40 | Audiovox Fretless Bass |
| 41 | Pickups, Noise, & Shielding |
Recent History
| Date | Day | Hits |
| 2026-06-04 | Thursday | 423 |
| 2026-06-03 | Wednesday | 491 |
| 2026-06-02 | Tuesday | 631 |
| 2026-06-01 | Monday | 483 |
| 2026-05-31 | Sunday | 546 |
| 2026-05-30 | Saturday | 1538 |
| 2026-05-29 | Friday | 1066 |
| 2026-05-28 | Thursday | 899 |
| 2026-05-27 | Wednesday | 1457 |
| 2026-05-26 | Tuesday | 1555 |
| 2026-05-25 | Monday | 649 |
| 2026-05-24 | Sunday | 489 |
| 2026-05-23 | Saturday | 561 |
| 2026-05-22 | Friday | 1303 |
| 2026-05-21 | Thursday | 2878 |
| 2026-05-20 | Wednesday | 1933 |
| 2026-05-19 | Tuesday | 1278 |
| 2026-05-18 | Monday | 812 |
| 2026-05-17 | Sunday | 787 |
| 2026-05-16 | Saturday | 556 |
| 2026-05-15 | Friday | 880 |
| 2026-05-14 | Thursday | 976 |
| 2026-05-13 | Wednesday | 893 |
| 2026-05-12 | Tuesday | 814 |
| 2026-05-11 | Monday | 674 |
| 2026-05-10 | Sunday | 443 |
| 2026-05-09 | Saturday | 563 |
| 2026-05-08 | Friday | 683 |
| 2026-05-07 | Thursday | 470 |
| average | 28 days | 939 |
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?
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After making a muddle of things with a razor blade and several other implements that proved to be less than satisfactory, I decided I needed to have the right tool - something roughly pencil-sized that can be handled with precision and ease, with a proper scraper edge. I took a look at StewMac, and found their binding scraper - exactly what I was thinking of. But with shipping, it would cost $15, and I'd have to wait a week for it, and after all, it's just a piece of steel. So I started thinking and remembered I have some 1/2" steel binding strap material. This is the stuff that is used around very large heavy boxes. It is a fairly hard and springy type of steel that would probably make a good tool. So I got busy in the shop and made three scrapers.
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Keith:
September 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM
Keep it up - your stuff is special to us non-bots