The 40th Day - Grains of Salt
November 15th, 2005
Having settled on a plugin set, I shall share it.
Content-negotiation
Now Reading
Official Comments
Text Control
WImage Browser
Witty Text
WP-Advanced-Stats-Recorder
WP-Advanced-Stats-Viewer
… one of the only complaints I have is with WP-Advanced-Stats-* : It does not filter out any search engines. It doesn’t have a blacklist. So, to get a better idea of what trafic I have, I filter out names of the top three: Googlebot, Yahoo! Slurp, Ask Jeeves(whatever they called it). And, of course, the sessions where I was logged in.
And my Hits count dropped drastically - that was expected. But my Visitors (session count?) dropped by two thirds. My best guess on this is that stuff without referers does not count as sessions.
Anyways, with a current 202 hits, mostly search engine free, I get the folowing general statistics:
45 hits with Internet Explorer 6
24 hits with validator or non-engine crawlers
18 hits with Firefox 1.4+ (1.5 alpha & beta)
14 hits with Firefox 1.x
11 hits with Safari
…which should mean about half my traffic is non-IE. I should probably clean up the data more, I’m currently not counting browsers with less than five hits, and I’m not sure all my own traffic is removed.
I know there is some CSS errata still to take care of. I wish that the CSS-SSC preprosessor could have selectors handled with GET functionality… how easy a color selector would be then…
One plugin I rejected was Fancy Tooltips. A javascript of nearly 14kb is not what I need. I may rig up some javascript to do the Accessible “More” links technique… It should be do-able in much less than 14kb.
Two more days, and I’m going Gr[ae]yscale.
-Sud.
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