2009 ZakStunts visitor statistics

[zaqrack]

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

[zaqrack]

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.

[BonzaiJoe]

top 10 article reads in January with hits numbers:

art_newbieguide   28
art_bjallin   25
art_bugs   24
art_Stuntswomen   22

[zaqrack]

yes, keep on writing

[zaqrack]

oh so you're a dumb spambot.

[BonzaiJoe]

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?

[zaqrack]

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.

[Duplode]

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):

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...

[BonzaiJoe]

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?

[Chulk]

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...