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A post over at A Small Victory (It's about an article in the New York Times that basically equates bloggers with underarm dandruff. Michele rips it apart really nicely - you should read it.) prompted me to do a comparison check on my Sitemeter Recorded vs. Actual visitors. For ZeroIntelligence.net I came up with these:

Visits* recorded by Sitemeter: 66,411

Actual visits** from log analysis: 136,362



* Site Meter defines a visit as a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views.

** A visitor is counted only when bringing up more than one page and taking no longer than 30 minutes between individual pages.

So Sitemeter is trying to count more sessions as visits (criteria of one page view versus a criteria of two or more page views) but is actually ending up with less than half (49%) of the actual visits.

Does anybody else out there have actual numbers they can compare to see what percentage of their visits are getting recorded by Sitemeter?

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1 Someone at munuviana recommended StatCounter. With that one, you can specify the lag time between page loads to decide what gets counted as a true "visit." But frankly, I quit looking very closely at either counter. If I'm updating, I'm pissed that the numbers aren't higher; if I'm not updating, well, then I really have no business expecting much from the stats.

Posted by: ilyka at May 28, 2004 01:00 PM (1PsN6)

2 I'm with Ilyka. I have given up checking. My stats seem fixed at a certain range, and almost never goes up, despite a firestorm of comments, and people that tell me that they read me constantly. So I figure-hell with it. I'm just writing for the free therapy, anyway.

Posted by: Helen at May 28, 2004 01:13 PM (MlyOS)

3 I'm pretty much the same. I gave up on regular checks, looking at referral logs and stuff like that a while ago when it just got too busy to keep up with it. However, I go through some longer periods without feedback so I keep an occasional eye on the hits to make sure people are still visiting. And to make sure I stay ahead of Helen. ;-P

Posted by: Jim at May 28, 2004 01:38 PM (IOwam)

4 I appreciate the question because, as a pit bull, I gotta know everything! I have always wondered why the "hits" that sitemeter counts are much less than the total on the free referrer log thingie. And why the difference with gostats and extreme tracking? And how/who counts the bot hits? And why does it seem like nobody reads the site sometimes and at other times *somebody* must be reading cuz there are comments, but the hit count goes *down*? And what should I look for when I go to cpanel at my server, anyway? And who put the ram in the ramma-ramma-ding-dong? Really! I gotta know!

Posted by: Claire at May 28, 2004 04:55 PM (l1oyw)

5 You ARE still ahead of me, and it annoys me terribly, baby.

Posted by: Helen at May 28, 2004 05:13 PM (MlyOS)

6 my site meter is always off... but i usually get 5k hits a month... such a small number..

Posted by: pylorns at May 28, 2004 08:57 PM (PB+b7)

7 The various third party counters all have different numbers because they're all effective to different levels. It's a crap shoot whether a particular page load will actually be counted because they're trying to catch it after the fact. Your logs are accurate because they're recording the actual request for a page load, not the successful loading and processing of an offsite script or image. I'm curious if other people's counts are as drastically off as mine are. Oh, and it was me with the ramma-ramma-ding-dong. What can I say? I was young and in an experimental phase.

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2004 09:36 AM (saeHM)

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Yet another anonymous comment troll has been corrected. It's the one with today's date, obviously.

This is pretty fun actually. Usually when I edit things I have to be serious.

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Ilyka says:

If you leave me an insulting comment and don't have the balls to post your real email address, obviously I'm going to edit it to amuse myself.

Obviously.

Same here.

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1 You're too tightfisted to gimme a link now?

Posted by: ilyka at May 24, 2004 09:37 AM (xNLFN)

2 Dang, how'd that happen? All fixed now!

Posted by: Jim at May 24, 2004 10:16 AM (IOwam)

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drew at logic2@hotmail.com (though that's probably a fake address) is the latest person to sign my guest map. He's a Brit but is for some ungodly reason living in France. After reading the comment that he left I wonder if that is such a coincidence. Here's what drew (that's the french spelling, using no capitals - less chance of giving offense using only lower case letters you know) said:

Jim is so clever that he has invented a new word to replace "causation" - "causality"! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ps get a clue moron.

If I'm reading this correctly drew is upset because I used the word "causality". He apparently doesn't know that it is a real word so he is trying to make fun of me for using it. He even gives me credit for creating the word itself! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

ps get a dictionary fucknob.

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Get your submissions in for the next Bestofme Symphony. Send them to bestofme@jpeacock.net and they'll be in Monday's edition at Blown Fuse.

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Every once in a while I'll get curious about what people who find this site were looking for. I'll put on my rubber gloves and my thickest apron and check in the referral logs. Here, for your amusement, are some of the most recent search phrases that have brought people to Snooze Button Dreams. As always, my smarmy comments follow.

do you bite your thumb
No. And I stopped sucking on it months ago.

there's a party in my pants
Am I invited?

rape stories written by authors
I think that if it's written it sort of has to be by an author. Can you have a rape story written by a non-author? more...

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You jerk off for two days and make your readers work the site for you and then on the day everybody is expecting you back (perhaps with some sort of entertaining anecdote from two days of corporate scholastics?) you play the bastiche again and go AWOL. What gives?

I received the email above (in slightly altered form) and would like to take this time to say "bite me" "sorry y'all". I took the day off yesterday to attend Bear's graduation from Pre-K and had an awesome family day. I didn't take time on the PC to do anything except scan emails and the news aggregator occasionally. I'm back now so keep your panties on. (Or don't. I'm good either way.) more...

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All has been settled. Copious points have been handed out and freebie codes sent to Rob and Simon.

This was pretty neat but I think that next time it'll be just a day long. With two days in a row the second day didn't seem to get much attention. Also, I'll see about getting the word out ahead of time so people will know what's coming up.

What do y'all think? Better than crappy post day? Worse? Would you rather have a pencil shoved in your ear than read just about anything on this site? You tell me. I want to know.

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Final Update: SnoozeBob is back in his cage. The winner of the advertising at ZeroIntelligence.Net is Simon. Yay, Simon!

Thanks to all who participated and special thanks to Rob for heavily promoting the open Snooze event. Hell, Rob gets ZI advertising too. I'm feeling spunky.

Particulars will get sent out tomorrow once I set up the code thingy at Blogads.

Thanks, y'all! more...

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1 Hey Jim, old buddy, any chance you can leave this open for those of us on the other side of the world?? Just need until about 10pm new York time...

Posted by: Simon at May 10, 2004 08:31 PM (UKqGy)

2 Well, that was a quickie, eh?

Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 10, 2004 10:05 PM (TP5dA)

3 He's a Charlie Brown headed vampire. They're not known for their endurance.

Posted by: Jim at May 10, 2004 10:06 PM (saeHM)

4 DAMNIT. I miss all the good shit.

Posted by: Emma at May 10, 2004 10:08 PM (kpNlZ)

5 Ya know, I have the hardest time tying to come up with some quality material to publish on my own blog -- of course, since no one reads my crap, I guess I ain't doin' all that great a job of it, so you are lucky I missed puttin' some crappy thought of mine up on yours, huh? I hardly ever find anywhere to post my SilkQuit statistics. Has anyone failed yet? Of course, if they did, would they really squeal on themselves? Four months, one week, two days, 22 hours, 16 minutes and 9 seconds has elapsed since I last took a puff off of a nasty cigarette and that now means 4582 cigarettes not smoked, allowin' me to save $916.20 in cash as well as possibly extendin' my life an additional 2 weeks, 1 day, 21 hours, 50 minutes. When I have saved $100 Grand, I am gonna buy me a candy bar as a reward to myself.

Posted by: notGeorge at May 10, 2004 11:20 PM (G5PGV)

6 It was still open, y'all. Don't forget to read the updated updates.

Posted by: Jim at May 11, 2004 05:17 AM (saeHM)

7 Thanks for dropping the link on blogging advice over at Electric Venom. Good words and well spoken.

Posted by: Dave Schuler at May 11, 2004 01:06 PM (xYj0a)

8 My pleasure, Dave.

Posted by: Jim at May 11, 2004 01:32 PM (IOwam)

9 speaking of posting.. survivor start date is up.

Posted by: pylorns at May 11, 2004 05:20 PM (FTYER)

10 Can I just say one thing to encapsulate just how I feel about actually winning this: Fucking wow! Eat that, Britney.

Posted by: Simon at May 11, 2004 09:16 PM (FUPxT)

11 There's only one problem with my rampant promotion tactics ... I seem to have a reader shortage

Posted by: Rob at May 12, 2004 05:59 AM (kXZI6)

12 Yeah, but you got an "E" for Effort, Rob!

Posted by: Jim at May 12, 2004 07:32 AM (saeHM)

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I'm in class today and tomorrow. I'll be wandering by the computer through the day but definitely won't have time to work up any decent posts. Instead of having a Crappy Post Day two weeks in a row I figured I'd ape some of the more successful bloggers and have an open microphone day.

There are only a couple of rules that you need to follow:

1. Make sure to use a title on the post and put your name in parenthesis at the end. Example: What I learned in class today (Jim Peacock)


2. Use the "SnoozeBob" category. That's going to be the general category for guest posters. Nothing like simple and easy to understand category titles to help folks navigate the site, eh?


3. Don't do anything that will get your ass permanently banned. There are no hard and fast rules for this because a goodly portion of my readership are clever and evil and if I made up rules or guidelines they would take a savage delight in finding loopholes through them. Just don't do anything remarkably and intentionally stupid or malicious and you'll be just fine.

If you're a blogger, don't forget to include a link to your own blog. Never pass up the opportunity for free advertising!

Here's the particulars:
Login URL
Account: SnoozeBob
Password: password

All y'all that already have accounts that can post here, feel free to use them or post using the SnoozeBob account. It's all good.

BEGIN!

PS - In case you've forgotten what he looks like, here's Snoozebob!

PSS - Munuvians will need to log out as themselves in order to login as SnoozeBob. It's that "logout" button at the top of the MT interface.

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Get your submissions in for the next Bestofme Symphony. Send them to bestofme@jpeacock.net and they'll be in Monday's edition at the all new and completely redesigned ultra spiffy MuNu. (Hey, Pixy - how's that redesign going?)

The only requirements are that you think the post is good and that it be at least 2 months old. It doesn't even have to be from your own blog. It just can't get any simpler!

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It's Crappy Post Day (tm)! For those of you who have joined us since the last Crappy Post Day (tm) and for those regulars who have managed to blank Crappy Post Day (tm) from your minds, allow me to give a brief explanation.

Crappy Post Day (tm) is what happens when I am too busy to write anything for myself but the gut wrenching pangs of guilt force me to attend to my bloggerly duties regardless. What you get on Crappy Post Day (tm) are links to other peoples' stuff (said stuff being way better than things you'll find at The Snooze on this fateful day) and things that people send me or I pick up on my wanderings. Oh yes, I'm still wandering. No time to write something amusing for y'all but plenty of time to aimlessly trek through the drek (that rhymes!) that is our beloved blogosphere. Does that make me a bad person? I doubt it. Next to signing up everybody on my notify list to the Al Franken fan club, that hardly registers.

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