Findings from Site Logs
I was going through my site logs today, and I came across a number of interesting discoveries.
First of all, e-mailing people to tell them that I’ve posted pictures on my site is the quickest way to drum up site hits. You can see from the relatively bi-modal distribution below, that I had spikes in traffic on April 13 and 23. On the 13th, I e-mailed CCF to let them know that I had posted pictures from the Camping Trip. On April 23, I e-mailed Real World to let them know that I had posted pictures of Charlene’s Baptism.
So clearly those e-mails had some pretty significant effects on my website traffic. In fact, my average daily website bandwidth is about 225MB. On the 13th, it spiked to 1GB, and on the 23rd, it went to a whopping 3.19GB. Wow! Someone’s downloading a lot of pictures.
The other fascinating bit I discovered was that Kevin is kinda famous. Do a search on Yahoo! for “anaconda vs. python” and he’s the first result. You can also do a search on Google for “biggest living reticulated pythons” and he comes up about 7th, just under the Wikipedia entry. Pretty cool, huh?