That’s right, a blog post about my blog.
I did some more exploring of the settings, so now there’s the calendar widget to the right instead of a by-month archive listing. I also added the category listing (since I’ve been using categories instead of tags so I can’t put in a tag cloud) and a search widget, and I moved the login/rss feed widget to the bottom of the page. The blog posts per page are reduced to 3 (from 10) to keep the page shorter and reduce the number of images loaded per view of the front page.
I was looking at the traffic to my site. I don’t know how the Googlebot found its way to my blog (especially considering I didn’t have the redirect from the blank www.w3asel.com to the blog up until after I noticed Google found me), but this post was hit by someone from a Google search on the qr code read error I got. I’ve also gotten visits from the UK and Canada, and besides Google, the Yahoo and Netcraft crawlers hit my site.
Most visits to my site happen in the late evening (probably mostly me), and I’ve barely got more hits from Windows than from Linux (also my fault). Unknown beats out Macintosh to round out the OS list, and I’m guessing “Unknown” means Android. Only 12% of the visits to my site have been through IE, and I’ve gotten a number of hits from Google Chrome (does Android use Chrome for the browser?).
Paying for decent web hosting certainly makes life easier than hosting on my own server. Not only do I get an actual domain name (instead of an ip address not even I could remember), but I get nice statistics pages, automatic installation tools, and I don’t have to worry about securing my server as much.