Holy IP addresses, batman!

[chicken]

Holy chicken wings, people! Fifty one, 51, FIFTY-ONE people have clicked on "DO NOT READ" and only *two* eight (yay) of you have actually commented!

My goodness me, we are *bad* little doobies, aren't we? :-)

Actually, I simply find it statistically fascinating. Especially since I only have 60-something people on my f-list.

Update: Now fifty-three FIFTY-NINE sixty-nine people! Golly gee willickers (sp?).

Comments

[jwgh]

Aha, so you still have no proof that I was one of them! I mean, um, damn.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha!

Actually, since I'm not logging IP addresses in this follow-up post, you're technically a-ok. :-) Although 'host' reveals that several of the 53 IP addresses are from '[something].ri.ri.cox.net' (which is in turn probably not where you are if you're at work).

[jwgh]

I actually work from my apartment, so there you go.

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... I wonder if some of those clicks are actually the automatic browser thingies that are employed by Google et al - though they tend to run mostly at night.

p.s. I clicked!

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Well thanks for 'fessing up. :-)

I actually only see one obvious 'bot listed in the hits (lexis-nexis). The rest look normal (although five IPs couldn't be found in ARPA's DNS records).

Plus, I have "Block Robots/Spiders from indexing your journal" checked in my Modify Journal/userinfo. But I guess "not all robots respect the rules". Oh well, I don't understand how all this stuff quite works, anyway.

[jwgh]

Hmmm, I reckon it's this stuff:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive" />
<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet" />

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Right -- but again, none of them are actually compelled (by law or electric shock) to pay attention to meta tags.

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

Where do you find the info on how many people read the entry?

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

As I said behind the cut, I just checked my server logs to see how many hits the gratuitous image had received (remember, I stuck a picture of Nick Brendon with the cucumbers over his eyes, right after the text of the meme itself). Of course I subtracted all the hits from my own IP address.

Of course, you have to pick an image that you know for a fact no one is hitting on another page or website, that day, so you can make sure that's where the hits are coming from. For example, I posted that particular image to brendon_daily about four months ago, so I was 99.9% positive no one was looking at it over there anymore. OK, 100% positive.