Submitted by megan on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 21:33
Like every blogger I know, I have a statcounter. I love it. It lets me know how people find me, how many people are checking, how often some of those people check, what they look for once they get to me.
I can sometimes tell who's checking (like if you're the one person I know who works in any given government department), but mostly I can't. My anonymous regulars come to feel a bit like friends. Or maybe like that nice looking person you see walking to work every morning, rocking out to their ipod. A comforting touchstone.
So I miss the mue when it's not there. I love that Canadian Heritage calls their server "beaver" and that the justice department calls theirs "stop.justice."
What I love most is watching how people find me. My name is by far the most popular, which is good, if not particularly interesting. "What's biting me" is a perennial favourite; any variation on "hand job" is always up there, though currently the best one of those is "underpants handjob."
My most favourite recent one is "19 year old girls getting their mouths cleaned out by animals."
At first, I just guffawed. Because that is fucking specific, dude. Not 20 year olds?
I feel almost bad for this person, because it's obviously sexual - Chris' take is that it's a euphemism for giving animals head. How likely is this person to get that itch scratched? Not bloody likely, would be my guess, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's probably for the best.
It makes me feel lucky that my own desires are so pedestrian and reasonably easily satisfied.
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9 comments postedOne tricky thing is people who read via RSS reader. Since they aren't generating page impressions, they might read for years without ever being noticed.
Hehe. I also greatly appreciate funny server names, probably because mine has a monopoly on the funny.
The way you feel about your people searching specifically for 19-year-olds? That's how I feel about my people searching specifically for 21-inch penises.
WordPress keeps track of search terms used to find my blog, and how often they're used over a year... it gets pretty interesting when you see how often people find my blog using similar warped views on life. So far these rank in the top twenty for this year:
fucking doodlebops
lithium herpes
how to grow a beard
herpes suicide
fucking my aunt
...a "doodlebop" is a kids TV show, and I did write once how I'd "totally tap Deedee Doodle's keg". So it kind of makes sense... and I would. She's a hottie.
Milan - Google reader tells me how many subscribers I have, so I have them in a separate part of my brain. I know there's some crossover since some people come from their readers to check out comments or whatever, but I have a general idea that there are a few more out there than in statcounter.
Stella - You totally lucked out, it's true.
Zoom - I did think of you and your 21-inch penises
Gabriel - Dude, totally. A keyboard guitar? Yes, please!
"Google reader tells me how many subscribers I have"
Only Google Reader subcribers, unless you are directing all your RSS feeds through feedburner. Otherwise, the count won't include BlogLines users, people who use desktop RSS readers, etc.
Aha! I thought it was all of them. That's nice to know that I have extra reader readers out there.
This may be a bit silly, but I am prefering to imagine the mouths-cleaned-out bit as sort of a monkey dentistry operation - you know how monkeys groom each other? Like that, except interspecially and with toothpicks.
No, not silly - pretty much exactly what I was thinking. Or like birds and hippos. Much more entertaining, as far as I am luckily concerned.