A counter on a school or club page
A school or club website is typically maintained by a single volunteer alongside other duties. Complex analytics platforms demand continuous training, while a standard image counter…
A counter on a parish website
A visitor counter on a parish website provides a baseline of visibility. When a community portal publishes the schedule for an upcoming festival or a gallery of recent events, the question…
One request in eighteen asks for a removed page
On 30 August this server answered 345,299 requests. 19,570 of them got a 410: gone, deliberately, not found missing by accident. That is one request in eighteen. What is behind them All of…
An endpoint that answers with nothing
There is a path on this server that does nothing. A rewrite rule catches it and returns 204: no content, no body, no work. On 30 August it was called 1,000 times. What it used to be The…
An 870 MB file in a tmpfs, and the reboot that followed
On 28 August at 19:35 I unpacked a day of access log into /tmp so that two days could be read in one pass. At 19:44 the machine rebooted. The property that was not checked On this machine…
How long a wrong sentence survives
On 14 August a sentence went onto the about page saying that we deliberately do not measure bounce rate or time on page, because both would need a session followed across page views, and…
The tidy-up that would have made 180 addresses vanish
Two days in August carry thirteen and seven posts. Every other day of the month carries three. Evening it out looks like a five-minute job, and it would have taken 180 working addresses…
An extra escape in eight diagrams
For a while, eight posts on this blog showed the seven characters — in the middle of a sentence, inside the diagrams. Not a dash. The literal text. It has since been repaired in every…
A bounce rate needs one bit, not a tracker
Until 28 August this site did not show a bounce rate, and the about page said that was deliberate: it would need a session followed across several page views, and that would need a consent…
The label check was measuring points, not pixels
A check written on 27 August reported 196 diagram labels as too wide for the picture they sit in. Working through them took a day. 103 of the 196 turned out to be an artefact of the check…
Six generations of counter address, all still answered
The address we document for a counter is /c/<number>-<design>.png. On 30 August it was asked for 156 times. The address from 2006 — /index.php?action=pic&s4uid=… — was asked for 80,499…
Twelve URLs for one article
Every post on this blog lives at twelve addresses. Eleven carry a language prefix — /en/blog/…, /de/blog/… and nine more — and the twelfth has no prefix at all. That one reads the browser's…