Some things which have occurred in the last few hours:

• for the first time intepid.com received more than 100 visitors within a 24 hour period
• for the first time intepid.com received more than 500 visitors within a 7 day period
• Drivey demo downloads topped 1000

That the overwhelming majority of visits came via a single site [ www.ovelho.com – Thanks! ] means that it will probably be a transitory thing, but I’ll still enjoy it while it lasts.

The rather spiky distribution of the 500+ visits to intepid.com over the past week.

Number Crunching

When I say "visitors" I am referring to visits to at least one page on intepid.com which result in the loading of a background image; this is a metric that from my experience gives the most conservative [and realistic] estimates you can get. Eg the popular analysis tool AWStats informs me that I have received 1651 visitors in the last week, but this figure is seriously unrealistic, since AWStats is not nearly aggressive enough in weeding out robot visits and page-reloads.

How can I be so sure?

One of the benefits to having such an image-heavy site is that I can easily deduce the maximum number of people who may have read a given post, simply by checking how many times an associated image has been downloaded. For example, my logs tell me that the entry Still Life² from a few days ago has [to date] been viewed by no more than 162 people… hmm, that’s actually a lot lower than I thought it would be, given that it’s been a big week and that figure includes RSS feed readers as well…

I’d love to say that stats aren’t important to me, but that would be like saying "I don’t care whether people listen to me", which would of course be a total lie.

I need to get out more.