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	375,681 hits (66%) on 423 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	127 hits on 52 pages	since yesterday
- Google	100,175 hits (18%) on 423 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	247 hits on 130 pages	since yesterday
- Bots	91,803 hits (16%)	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	321 hits	since yesterday

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

1. Jazzmaster Bass 1
2. Fender-style Piezo Bridge
3. Fret Slotting Jig
4. Danelectro Pro-1 Guitar
5. Danelectro Dead-On '67 (Coral Hornet) Guitar
6. Silvertone U-1 "Dolphin" Guitar
7. Danelectro Longhorn Guitar
8. Sitar Bridge
9. Danelectro Projects
10. Series Wiring

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

1. Stratocaster Bass VI
2. Silvertone 1457 Guitar & Amp
3. Mosrite Bass
4. Finishing Oils
5. Masonite
6. SX SPB-57 Precision Bass
7. Projects Index
8. Reverse Fenderbird
9. Fussy Work
10. Hand Drill

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?