Schinckel.net

I don’t obsess over my referers, much. It’s interesting to see what pages people have visited, and where they have come from, but I don’t write the stuff on this site because I’m trying to make myself heard, or popular. It’s more of: “Here’s some information I’ve come across: if someone else is searching for it and I can help them, that’s all good!” Having said that, I have had days in the last month or so where I have had over 400 page visits. Many of those are to the one post I wrote on Sudoku, ages ago, but they still keep coming. Even though I don’t actually provide much information in that post! I even had a day, a month ago, that had 690 referers, although a big chunk of them were actually some spider, as they were all DIRECT referers, and all seemed to be accessing weird URLs. More recently, I’ve discovered the Gvisit page, and have been able to see my most recent visitors locations, on a Google Map, which is very cool. I’ve even thought of making a category link, a home page link, and so on. But that seems like it might be too much work. Today, I noticed I only had 24 referers at around 2:30 (ACST: +0930), a time I usually number around 150. I thought, “Hey, there’s something weird going on here!”, and looked at the monthly view. 125 yesterday, and 174 the previous. Prior to that, each day had around 3-400 referers. I’m not sure why my traffic has suddenly halved: my Google Page Rank is a fair 5/10 (Boing Boing has a Page Rank of 8, Blogsome 6)