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	101,269 hits (57%) on 422 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	790 hits on 325 pages	since yesterday
- Google	41,830 hits (24%) on 421 pages	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	116 hits on 72 pages	since yesterday
- Bots	34,810 hits (20%)	since 2024/01/16
- - Today	97 hits	since yesterday

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

1. Drilling
2. Spray Booth
3. Audiovox Fretless Bass
4. Truss Rods
5. Fretboards
6. Volume & Tone Controls
7. Fender Projects
8. Sitar Bridge
9. String Tension
10. Strat Tremolo Stabilizer

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

1. Making Fret Wire
2. Rickenbacker Projects
3. Stratocaster Bass VI
4. Thumbrests
5. Danelectro Longhorn Guitar
6. Funnies
7. Airbrushing "Off the Grid"
8. Angled Headstock Jig
9. Danelectro Dead-On '67 (Coral Hornet) Guitar
10. Fretboard Radius Jig

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

1. Danelectro Bridges
2. Fret Slotting Jig
3. Telecaster Bass
4. Fretboards
5. Sitar Bridge
6. Finishing Oils
7. Masonite
8. Silvertone 1448 Guitar & Amp
9. Polyurethane - Water-Based
10. Rickenbacker 4001 Bass 1

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

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

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Pages: Last 14 Days

2024/05/16 -- 2,372 -- 100,479 -- Thursday
2024/05/15 -- 768 -- 98,107 -- Wednesday
2024/05/14 -- 835 -- 97,339 -- Tuesday
2024/05/13 -- 836 -- 96,504 -- Monday

2024/05/12 -- 726 -- 95,668 -- Sunday
2024/05/11 -- 714 -- 94,942 -- Saturday
2024/05/10 -- 888 -- 94,228 -- Friday
2024/05/09 -- 812 -- 93,340 -- Thursday
2024/05/08 -- 913 -- 92,528 -- Wednesday
2024/05/07 -- 796 -- 91,615 -- Tuesday
2024/05/06 -- 845 -- 90,819 -- Monday

2024/05/05 -- 987 -- 89,974 -- Sunday
2024/05/04 -- 709 -- 88,987 -- Saturday
2024/05/03 -- 554 -- 88,278 -- Friday

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Google: Last 14 Days

2024/05/16 -- 198 -- 41,714 -- Thursday
2024/05/15 -- 236 -- 41,516 -- Wednesday
2024/05/14 -- 192 -- 41,280 -- Tuesday
2024/05/13 -- 235 -- 41,088 -- Monday

2024/05/12 -- 244 -- 40,853 -- Sunday
2024/05/11 -- 220 -- 40,609 -- Saturday
2024/05/10 -- 241 -- 40,389 -- Friday
2024/05/09 -- 306 -- 40,148 -- Thursday
2024/05/08 -- 438 -- 39,842 -- Wednesday
2024/05/07 -- 481 -- 39,404 -- Tuesday
2024/05/06 -- 286 -- 38,923 -- Monday

2024/05/05 -- 333 -- 38,637 -- Sunday
2024/05/04 -- 348 -- 38,304 -- Saturday
2024/05/03 -- 340 -- 37,956 -- 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?