January in access logs

I averaged 42 hits per hour, for the month. 629 hits were 404s, which I'm working on with some .htaccess redirection.

I moved 180MB of data last month. Almost 10% of it was to the user responsible for this page. He polls my MetaFilter feed (of which I moved 27.6MB in January, 14.76% of my traffic, only partly thanks to this guy) twice hourly, once with Radio 7.0.1 and once with a Radio beta.

The next highest user was flag.blackened.net, who only reads my Stapler-scraped librarian.net feed, which became the official RSS for the site. flag's usage is a bit disconcerting, since they only started polling the feed on the 18th. Just regularly. I mean, regularly: 1,996 times in the last 14 days of the month. Since, on the 31st, they polled 11 times during the 3-7 am hours but 23 times between 7 and 8 pm, I'm guessing they are just pulling the file on demand instead of doing something intelligent like caching it. I'd consider enforcing hourly scan limits but I don't have that level of control with only .htaccess tricks, afaik.

41% of my traffic is referrer-less and 20% is from Radio UserLand scans. Third referrer is my old site, with 1.46%--466 hits--followed closely by weblogs.com with 1.34% and Dave Winer's Scripting News with 1.31%. People following links from Radio desktop sites, librarian.net readers, Google users, Radio discussion group readers, and Garth Kidd's Deadly Bloody Serious round out the top ten.

My top three search engine queries were "mtv furries" (17%), "stapler" (5.3%), and "aminal sex" (3.79%). 40% of you use Internet Explorer, and more of you "visit" my site with Radio UserLand than Netscape.

I would comment on all this in some way but it's really rather late at night for that. Perhaps in the morning when numbers are more than squiggles.