Good gracious, it is the site's five-millionth hit. That's five million hits in seven years (plus a couple of days).
Let's look at the log record for that five-millionth hit:
71.112.234.3 - - [12/Mar/2006:03:00:50 -0400] "GET departures/Seattle/11/03759_great_republic_painting_tm.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4070 "-" Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
This appears to be a Verizon customer in the Seattle area looking at the New Year 2005 Berkeley-Vancouver road trip travelog. They're running MSIE. I don't know much about Microsoft software, but that .NET CLR 1.1.4322 might mean that this person is running an old version of the .NET framework--noawadays you see 2.0.50727 a bunch.
Most people find the site by searching Google. (My opinions and statements are mine, not that of my employer.) What kinds of things do they search for? The most popular searches are
- hogtied
- poke her
- japanese punk
- free comix
- unknown phone numbers
- ninja smoke bombs
- telegraph machine
- japanese ska
- david thatcher
- mongol 800
Thanks to the power of Google sitemaps, I can regularly check out which things people search for such that this site shows up in the results--whether or not people click to go to this site. So, what are the most popular queries for which people could click to go to this site, but don't?
- tahoo
- pg & e
- puzzle
- telcan
- dblock
- xjapan
- antsy
- demoui
- bay area night game
- porta portal
I guess if I want to write about one of those topics, I could, and be assured that I've got a head start showing up in search results pages for those words.
Anyhow, it's been a fun seven years. Thank you for reading!