Diary of an up and coming sociopath

So, given that it’s a new month, I thought I’d share with you all one of the highlights only available to me at this time. A look at my webstats. Yes, yes, it’s pathetic and geeky, but it’s a good way of quantifying just what effect my lovingly crafted website has on the internet as a whole. Much akin, I expect, to a droplet in the sea. A single star in all the universe. A goth at a Busted gig. This is kind of a peripheral design issue, so it’s in the web design section.

I relish the opportunity to see both what people came to my site most for, last month, and to use the time early in the month to see the kind of obscure things people can end up here for. For instance, i see from my referral logs that a large group of people are still coming here from a post made on “goregasm” to see my “issei sagawa fanart”, which is a doodle I uplaoded for my “art” page - this referral has been generating hits for a good two months now, and shows little sign of abating. The mind boggles at what people think of it, really. I’ve yet to receive any requests for comissions, though.

A much more suspect referral is the sell-out.net one, which I notice appeared right at the end of the month, but generated over 300 hits in extremely short order. A scan of the logs reveals the horrible truth - an image-leech. Someone was using my Dave Gorman link picture as their avatar on the aforementioned messageboard. I’m being kind, and replacing the image with a polite warning and if this doesn’t stem the tide, I’ll have to consider more extreme goatse.cx based measures.

The searches for May aren’t actually very telling, because the stats only go as far as the first 5 hours, until they get updated tomorrow. Howver, in the first 5 hours of May, 2 people got here looking for “humanzee photos”. Ah, that strange human-chimp. I suspect it’s the same person, to be honest. I expect in the coming weeks that the searches will even out to reflect April, as April reflected March, and so on. It almost always ends up with “Sociopath” at the top, followed closely by “easyworld”, “Thunderbolts” and “Fillerbunny”. Kind of makes me wonder if I shouldn’t update some of the other areas of the site, really. I’m hoping to revamp the Easyworld site after I’ve got the proper one finished, and make it a little flashier, design wise. It’s long overdue for an update, really. The Thunderbolts site is a quandry. I was really proud of it at the time, and I think it’s still not that bad today. However, it never got finished and it just looks more and more out of date, so I’m considering removing it altogether. I can’t imagine people are actually finding it useful at this point, and I’m going to need the space. I’m quite pleased to see six hits have come in from people searching for Whitnash. The town I lived in most of my life is of iterest to people on the internet, it seems.

I’m always amused to see .MIL (US Military) domains appear in the domains section, if only to know the US government is keeping track on potential terrorists like myself. However, the coolest thing that ever turned up in there was an ARPA net domain. Old Skool.

Well, anyway, while I’m sure that’s all exciting to you people, you can view it yourself in full if you really want to have a look. Something I’ll be looking at in the design stages of my site is just how to get search engines looking at the right stuff within the page, or at the very least, to make sure that the content matches what people are searching for…