I found out that about 30% of my webserver traffic are
robots—programs that crawl the Internet indexing webpages. Why did I
calculate that?
A question on the Robots Mailing List (dealing with programs that crawl
the Internet and not mechanical devices that walk about going “R2-D2,
where are you?”) asking if robots skew banner impressions and click
throughs. An interesting question and while 30% might seem a bit high,
that's only because my server isn't a heavily trafficked site at all,
despite my good placement in the search engines.
You have my permission to link freely to any entry here. Go
ahead, I won't bite. I promise.
The dates are the permanent links to that day's entries (or
entry, if there is only one entry). The titles are the permanent
links to that entry only. The format for the links are
simple: Start with the base link for this site: https://boston.conman.org/, then add the date you are
interested in, say 2000/08/01,
so that would make the final URL:
https://boston.conman.org/2000/08/01
You can also specify the entire month by leaving off the day
portion. You can even select an arbitrary portion of time.
You may also note subtle shading of the links and that's
intentional: the “closer” the link is (relative to the
page) the “brighter” it appears. It's an experiment in
using color shading to denote the distance a link is from here. If
you don't notice it, don't worry; it's not all that
important.
It is assumed that every brand name, slogan, corporate name,
symbol, design element, et cetera mentioned in these pages is a
protected and/or trademarked entity, the sole property of its
owner(s), and acknowledgement of this status is implied.
