Where a counter fits on a Blogspot blog
Blogspot continues to host many personal and community blogs, often with strict structural limitations. The platform confines custom HTML to designated sections, transforming the placement…
The counter still runs after ten years
Countless websites have integrated a visitor counter years ago and left the code untouched since. During the past decade, web technology has shifted significantly, yet a simple HTML image…
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…