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I've never ever looked at stats of my site over the years if not the bandwidth usage to check I wasn't over the limit.

Today I noticed Dreamhost has a page with some of those stats. No idea how to read them, nor I really care.

I never wrote for popularity and I usually try to look at things and write from the critical perspective that most ignore or just plain refuse. Nonconformist, maybe, but always with a reason. I don't build consensus around me, in fact I build dissent. Always the other perspective that is ignored or that people don't want to hear. Fighting superficiality, because I think demagogy leads nowhere and what's relevant is the merit of things, not their form.

I always thought my site was mostly a nest of spiders and spam bots. Google seems to like me a lot (and drives the 'who's online' tab on the right, as the engine counts separately every session over a 10 minutes span). While the sporadic comments that appear should mean that what I wrote isn't provoking many reactions, nor that I have all that many readers. On the other side my RSS feed has the full entries with the full html, so a few readers may as well never pass from here.

Anyway, if you are curious, here the stats that I gather from the hosting company.

That are kind of weird, as I stopped blogging in May 2007 and resumed more sporadically in September.

Could someone explain that, and the difference between "reqs" and "pages"?

Stats

August 2008

Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending Sep 01 2008 at 2:46 AM.

Successful requests: 600,969 (122,329)
Average successful requests per day: 19,374 (17,475)
Successful requests for pages: 20,321 (3,582)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 655 (511)
Failed requests: 28,728 (769)
Redirected requests: 129 (4)
Distinct files requested: 16,154 (2,410)
Distinct hosts served: 31,139 (1,296)
Data transferred: 17.11 gigabytes (3.46 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 564.82 megabytes (506.06 megabytes)

Since 2005

Successful requests: 26,952,758
Average successful requests per day: 21,730
Successful requests for pages: 1,258,912
Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,014
Failed requests: 2,747,368
Redirected requests: 632,606
Data transferred: 1.82 terabytes
Average data transferred per day: 1.50 gigabytes

month	#reqs	#pages
Apr 2005	74081	3602
May 2005	220271	8332
Jun 2005	290042	15685
Jul 2005	345241	18226
Aug 2005	390331	25896
Sep 2005	349225	24867
Oct 2005	2126969	33783
Nov 2005	772307	14951
Dec 2005	831798	15027
Jan 2006	756081	19851
Feb 2006	582753	15291
Mar 2006	720480	18557
Apr 2006	741392	19481
May 2006	888423	25298
Jun 2006	1422682	31917
Jul 2006	813391	20367
Aug 2006	1062365	22608
Sep 2006	1140998	22507
Oct 2006	919720	26405
Nov 2006	774836	15918
Dec 2006	751842	18024
Jan 2007	793804	28062
Feb 2007	787727	23291
Mar 2007	931587	18905
Apr 2007	947641	20497
May 2007	612713	90812
Jun 2007	350314	168910
Jul 2007	309463	138651
Aug 2007	265648	100576
Sep 2007	231319	51293
Oct 2007	166951	38495
Nov 2007	317330	9731
Dec 2007	411579	12836
Jan 2008	472759	11432
Feb 2008	518934	13694
Mar 2008	534054	14470
Apr 2008	570940	14547
May 2008	688676	26904
Jun 2008	673631	22094
Jul 2008	632170	12546
Aug 2008	600734	20311
Sep 2008	159556	4262