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Today, a website visitor from Singapore visited 7 pages on dave2n.com. I shouldn't know this, I shouldn't care about this, but I do.
See, I'm addicted to website statistics in the worst way. Through the company that hosts this site, Feature Price, I get mad crazy password-protected website statistics. For 'xample, it shows me what words people typed in a search engine to get here. I get a lot of "blankity-blank cartoon" searches, like "tiger woods cartoon" or "u2 cartoon". But apparently on some search engines my site also shows up for fantastic phrases like "oh snap," "stupid people," "very funny stuff" and "accomplishments or squeak or second or swinburne or fawns." And at least once a month I get one "hadoken" visitor. The sad/funny/interesting/strange thing is, since I know every page of this site (73 of them as of today), I know exactly where these words appear on dave2n. These people probably ended up horribly, horribly confused as to why they were sent here. What power. I mean, watch, I'm going to type "obselete fisher price massacre" and I guarantee someone will come here because of searching for it. "second nature" and "dave werner" continue to be the top search terms, followed by "drool" (Kyle Gabler's Cav Daily comic) and "nature comics."
I can say things like, "Congratulations for nothing, wkstn107-149.reiss.georgetown.edu, you downloaded 18632 kilobytes of information in November; the most out of any other person on this planet!" It's sort of satisfying to see the countries that have visited here, though. To name just a few: Sweden, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Hungary and good ol' Slovenia! I don't even know where the heck that is, but it's appreciated. That's pretty cool to think that someone from Slovenia may have read my Cookieface Galaraga comics.
And yet another great feature is showing how people get to this site. The overwhelming majority have dave2n.com boomarked or just type it in, but I'm linked in some strange places (as evident in the "linked to me" section on the left sidebar). The seemingly innocent U2log.com link pretty much tripled my visitors here on the day it was posted. Most people come here for the VRML video game (it's had a decent-sized 20,000 players since its inception in March 2002).
So in the end, yes oh freakin' yes, it's a waste of time to check website statistics. But it does make me happy; nay, euphoric, to see the site's visitors grow over time. It's nice to see that I've got a fan or a confused search engine user in Slovenia. Thanks for visiting.
Thursday, December 12 at 3:58 PM
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