Web analytics are fun
One good thing about running my own website (instead of using a free blog site) is that I can use any statistics analysis tool I want. So, aside from the interesting things like where the people reading my blog are (apparently, I have regular readers from Petaling Jaya and Kadıköy), I can see other traffic patterns.
Some are obvious, like when I stop posting, people stop visiting. That seems to be make sense. :-) Others are a little more subtle. When I updated my blog title, the search engine crawlers came by to recrawl all of my pages since they all showed updates. From that data I could see which engines crawled my site when, and who did the most thorough job.
And just recently, when I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1, the source for my pages changed, the crawlers needed to return for new pass. Of course, this is a pretty unscientific study (since I have all of two data points), so I won’t tell you which engines were the fastest to come by and update their index. But, the results didn’t surprise me. :-)
Speaking of which, what’s up with Ask.com? Ask is all over my WinFS related blogging, but is unwilling to crawl my blog, even though they crawl a bunch of sites one hop away from this one.
Stupid Jeeves.
And while we’re on the topic of ego surfing, I was looking into how the “Suggestion” feature in search engines work. Take a look at the fourth thing that Yahoo suggests when you search for my “vijay bangaru”:
I’m so amused. :-)
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