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 | 146069 | 294 | 146363 | 46.2% | 24993 | 212 |
| 66273 | 9 | 66282 | 20.9% | 4248 | 183 | |
| Bing | 43544 | 739 | 44283 | 14.0% | 6832 | 199 |
| Meta | 34236 | 8 | 34244 | 10.8% | 15540 | 151 |
| Apple | 3753 | 3 | 3756 | 1.2% | 406 | 22 |
| DDG | 2533 | 0 | 2533 | 0.8% | 237 | 8 |
| Bots | 19253 | 9 | 19262 | 6.1% | 8779 | 86 |
| Total | 315661 | 1062 | 316723 | 100% | 61035 | 861 |
* includes pages, posts and archives since 2025-12-05
Top Hits
Most-Recent Hits
| 1 | Silvertone 1448 Guitar & Amp |
| 2 | Masonite |
| 3 | DIY Buffing Machine |
| 4 | Danelectro Pro-1 Bass |
| 5 | # Superfreaky Part IVa |
| 6 | Pickguards |
| 7 | Volume & Tone Controls |
| 8 | Neck Mountings |
| 9 | Audiovox Stratocaster-Style Guitar |
| 10 | Danelectro Bridges |
| 11 | Poplar |
| 12 | @ Reviews |
| 13 | RetroBrite |
| 14 | Fretboard Radius Jig |
| 15 | Fret Slotting Jig |
| 16 | Angled Headstock Jig |
| 17 | Benchtop Belt Sander |
| 18 | Audiovox Projects |
| 19 | Telestar Mona |
| 20 | Templates |
| 21 | Oak |
| 22 | Woods etc |
| 23 | Batteries |
| 24 | Building Necks |
| 25 | Finishing Oils |
| 26 | Capacitors |
| 27 | # Making Fret Wire |
| 28 | # Feature Creep |
| 29 | Finishes |
| 30 | Air Compressors |
| 31 | # Guitar Rack Plans |
| 32 | Side Markers |
| 33 | # From the Sears Catalog |
| 34 | # Danelectro Catalogs |
| 35 | # Danelectro Bridge Sag |
| 36 | Danelectro Longhorn Bass |
| 37 | Adhesives & Glues |
| 38 | Osprey Bass (BC Rich Eagle) |
| 39 | Polyurethane - Water-Based |
| 40 | # Radiatabacker Part IIe |
| 41 | Kubicki Factor Bass |
Recent History
| Date | Day | Hits |
| 2026-08-21 | Friday | 212 |
| 2026-08-20 | Thursday | 336 |
| 2026-08-19 | Wednesday | 417 |
| 2026-08-18 | Tuesday | 371 |
| 2026-08-17 | Monday | 397 |
| 2026-08-16 | Sunday | 512 |
| 2026-08-15 | Saturday | 456 |
| 2026-08-14 | Friday | 251 |
| 2026-08-13 | Thursday | 342 |
| 2026-08-12 | Wednesday | 376 |
| 2026-08-11 | Tuesday | 293 |
| 2026-08-10 | Monday | 400 |
| 2026-08-09 | Sunday | 341 |
| 2026-08-08 | Saturday | 244 |
| 2026-08-07 | Friday | 395 |
| 2026-08-06 | Thursday | 393 |
| 2026-08-05 | Wednesday | 399 |
| 2026-08-04 | Tuesday | 252 |
| 2026-08-03 | Monday | 526 |
| 2026-08-02 | Sunday | 371 |
| 2026-08-01 | Saturday | 337 |
| 2026-07-31 | Friday | 311 |
| 2026-07-30 | Thursday | 353 |
| 2026-07-29 | Wednesday | 379 |
| 2026-07-28 | Tuesday | 373 |
| 2026-07-27 | Monday | 332 |
| 2026-07-26 | Sunday | 585 |
| 2026-07-25 | Saturday | 369 |
| 2026-07-24 | Friday | 455 |
| average | 28 days | 377 |
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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July 27, 2020
Been doing some quick experiments with CA and glitter for the last few days. At left is gold crushed glass. Center-top is very fine gunmetal plastic glitter. Center-bottom is silver crushed glass glitter. At right is standard plastic glitter. The green tube is medium CA, the pink one is thin, the standard formulation. Thick CA is quite rubbery when it dries, I would not use it for this.
More: Some Quick Inlaying Experiments ...
Keith:
September 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM
Keep it up - your stuff is special to us non-bots