{"id":1904,"date":"2005-04-18T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1134"},"modified":"2010-07-28T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:42:49","slug":"stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around with the stats available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/rewards.cgi?rbrockerhoff\">DreamHost<\/a>, and the results are interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Fully a quarter of site visitors now come from <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\">Google<\/a> and from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versiontracker.com\/\">VersionTracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over a third of visitors, unsurprisingly, use Safari. The next popular browsers are MSIE (hm), Mozilla derivatives and <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, that last one with about 10%. The number of bots is higher than I expected; some bots even download .dmg files, I can&#8217;t imagine what for.<\/p>\n<p>The failure reports are the most interesting part. Fully 12% of accesses over this month so far seem to be various forms of attacks, mostly the tired old attacks against <a href=\"http:\/\/phpbb.com\">phpbb<\/a> forums using one of the published scripts. A few people try to run one of the awstat scripts (which I don&#8217;t use), or some Microsoft-server-specific thing (which I don&#8217;t use either). For the last 3 days, about 60% of all requests have been phpbb attacks, like in the peak days in January, when the Santy worm was going around. Don&#8217;t these people have <em>anything<\/em> better to do?<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, this weblog has been hit daily with comment spam, referrer spam and link spam &#8211; the latter by people registering with fake web addresses which redirect to some gambling or porn site. I&#8217;m not accepting any such users &#8211; they&#8217;re very easy to spot &#8211; and their links would be tagged with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkcondom.com\/\">nofollow<\/a>&#8221; anyway. I don&#8217;t publish referrer lists, so referrer spam doesn&#8217;t work either. If comment spam volume grows, well, I&#8217;ll have to install a little modification to have posts wait for moderator approval&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phpbb\">phpbb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around with the stats available on DreamHost, and the results are interesting. Fully a quarter of site visitors now come from Google and from VersionTracker. Over a third of visitors, unsurprisingly, use Safari. The next popular browsers are MSIE (hm), Mozilla derivatives and NetNewsWire, that last one with about 10%. The number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1q3Zc-stats","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}