Saturday, September 11, 2004

I have met the public and it is me



Well, due to my not understanding how IP addresses work, it turns out * I * am about a third of my readership.

I'm on a dialup, and the first few times I checked, it happened that my IP addresses all had the same first few prefixes. I set sitemeter to Ignore that, and forged ahead. Four months later, I realized -- I get assigned a new IP address EVERY time I connect. That sameness of those prefixes was a fluke.

All those AOL readers? Mostly me. That high percentage in the Pacific Standard timezone? Me. Those huge spikes in the Page Views? Me, me, me.

My new routine is to log into sitemeter first, Ignore, then blog.

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