As you already know I'm measuring the number of page hits on each subpage since the new year.
Just some teaser on the top 30 measured in the first 20 days. Remember, the site has ~60-80 unique visitors each day. Of course around 30% of this and all the number below are bots, but stil...
It shows how important it was to make the newbie pages. I just wonder where those 80 people, who clicked on the "signup" page :(
There is still room to improve. Will publish monthly stats.
PAGE ID - PAGE HITS
2009scores 288
download 286
stats 241
articles 222
newsarc 222
contact 221
rplinfo 209
school 208
faq 203
newbie7 146
newbie6 139
newbie2 129
newbie8 124
newbie5 110
newbie4 110
newbie3 110
permanent 104
2008season 100
newbie1 97
2009profiles 92
2009season 81
2008podium 80
signup 80
welcome 80
2005season 78
2008profiles 77
2007season 76
2006season 74
2007profiles 73
2008scores 68
Top 20 pages in ZakStunts with hits numbers:
2009scores 3288
stats 1531
newsarc 1478
contact 1463
rplinfo 1442
download 1400
school 1303
faq 1255
articles 1237
newbie6 1029
newbie7 991
newbie8 955
2009profiles 825
newbie2 808
newbie4 781
newbie5 767
newbie3 747
newbie1 739
2008season 706
2008scores 693
top 10 article reads in January with hits numbers:
art_newbieguide 28
art_bjallin 25
art_bugs 24
art_Stuntswomen 22
art_39mingva 22
art_kevin 20
art_akosslife 20
art_oracle 19
art_43mingva 19
art_teamstat 19
art_drivnumb 18
the above numbers contain robot hits, which gives a lot of extra hits to pages available from the mainpage with one click only. Will try to exclude them somehow later.
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top 10 article reads in January with hits numbers:
art_newbieguide 28
art_bjallin 25
art_bugs 24
art_Stuntswomen 22
;D
yes, keep on writing :)
oh so you're a dumb spambot.
Actually quite a clever spambot, isn't it?
Certainly a confusing one! And most of them just make you shake your head. But what I don't understand is: what's its point?
well, let me see...
she (Sandra) assumes, that this topic is related to visitor messages. As it is focused on messaging, it is not the place for asking. So it is a strange place to ask.
She must be a trainer of some kind, as he just made (trained) a temp (temp worker) so she is really an expert in messaging (or forum posting). In fact, I think she is trying to convince people to post more, by clicking the same button (post message) over and over again.
I would like to spend a moment appreciating what that spambot was actually doing. Yesterday "she" popped up with this on the Football Fanats topic (the original message was already cleared):
Quote from: "Sandra"
I was reading a newsgroup from my department at uni and someone has came up with this thread, where you pick your 'dream team' from the football season/current footballing talent. Thought it was a good idea for all the football fans out there. I'll kick us off with mine.
Cech (GK)
Miguel(DF) Maldini(DF) Carvalho(DF) Bridge(DF)
Ronaldo(MD) Essien(MD) Dani Alves(MD) Kaka(MD)
Drogba(STR) Van Nistelrooy (STR)
Subs: Messi (MD/STR)
Gattusso (MD)
Fabregas (MD)
Nesta (DF)
Casillas (GK)
Now if you Google for the contents of that post, you'll be led to
http://www.hsn.uk.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=5794&pid=97830&mode=threaded&start= , which is exactly the same message. The logical conclusion, therefore, is that "Sandra" runs on some software with a database of various forum posts gathered from the Internet and then, when "she" sneaks into a forum, these posts' contents are matched with thread titles and get republished wherever appropriate. And what about the spam/advertisement? Embedded as an external link on "her" signature, of course...
That is
scary. On a bigger, more general-purpose forum with less tight supervision a post like that might go unnoticed for a long while (*)...
(*) well, except for putting Messi as a sub on that team. That is a big giveaway to the mods... :)
That's very clever... And almost so interesting I'll approve of it :)
But how does it get past the catchphra or captcha or whatever it's called?
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on June 01, 2009, 09:51:46 AM
That's very clever... And almost so interesting I'll approve of it :)
But how does it get past the catchphra or captcha or whatever it's called?
That's what I've been thinking too... Maybe some kind of "character detector". You know, there are softwares able to recognize faces so it shoulnd't be that hard to have one that recognizes certain characters such as letters, numbers or symbols...