Summary for the Week Ending 11/25/2007
November 27, 2007
This past week has been just a little bit crazy. Of course, my clan had a great Thanksgiving, I really enjoyed the time off, and I hope the rest of you did as well.
The really crazy part of this week is that Pearl submitted me to Stumble upon, and just in the last 7 days, I’ve had 9,556 Visitors, and 19,473 pageviews! Just about all of the hits have been on my “Find out What is Using up Your Hard Drive Space With WinDirStat” post, and some of the posts in the “related posts” section of that page.
I was pretty impressed, until I exchanged a few emails with Pearl today, and she has been getting crazy amounts of traffic on her “Best 101 Lists” post. She said 40,000 hits (Digg it here) just recently.
I really had no idea how many visitors these sites can generate. Last month I posted about being stumbled twice, but that incident had only generated about 650 visitors, I didn’t see a big increase anywhere else. This time though, I doubled my subscribers, and have seen a small percentage of the visitors go to other pages on the blog.
So, if you’re reading this, and you’re one of the new subscribers, Welcome to Port 16!
Elsewhere in my field of blog-o-vision, the mumblr has a new theme, looks pretty nice, and it isn’t just the looks, check out this post for some free software.
I hope to get back on a better posting schedule, and try to work in some posts for everyone. If you see a something that is too technical, or not technical enough, please stick around, since I try to cover a wide portion of the spectrum.
And as always, feel free to ask questions, Kellypea asked a great question about the difference between storage and memory in the comments of the WinDirStat post, and I think I may even have to create a whole post about that subject. Trust me, it isn’t even close to the first time that I have been asked that question.
Thanks to everyone who continues to come back for more, as well as all of you who comment. Stay tuned, there’s more coming.
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November 27th, 2007 at 6:48 am
thank you so much for the support during digg fest as they call it
I have to say it was a crazy day yesterday but all worth the ride… it got more than 600 diggs and has more than 500 bookmarks on it… which was REALLY nice! and I am not able to get to a regular posting schedule ‘coz of holidays either… but I hope to soon…
November 27th, 2007 at 7:54 am
That’s just crazy! Well, it was a great post, now if only I had the time to read all of those lists…
November 27th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Hey, thanks for the linkage!
That’s a crazy number of hits man. That would make my little home-hosted server burst in to flames.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:08 am
No problem Art, thanks for continuing to correct my typos!
It really is a ton of hits, I was giddy with a the 1,500-ish I was getting, I wouldn’t know what to do with 40,000!
November 27th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I WAS giddy all the time with site going down and getting bombarded with tons of emails telling me site was down and everything else going on… no wonder i buried some of the comments on digg only to realize it later what had happened…
I meant to give them thumbs up! oh well… now for the month of December, all I’ll do is read those lists 
November 27th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Wow - that is insane. I can’t imagine that sort of traffic, it is kind of intimidating really.
Was a great article though about a useful utility - can see why it was so popular. Great Job!!
SB
November 27th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Thanks a lot Scott! I’m glad you liked it, I know it has served me well.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:15 am
I’ve heard of that kind of traffic and sites going down because of it. It must have been crazy! But great that you received the attention. I’ll wait for the explanation mentioned above and try really hard to focus. You tech dudes (Phil, Scott) are great for tolerating me.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
Hey Kellypea, there isn’t anything to tolerate, and I’m glad to help explain anything I can. Some people are good at Tech, some at cooking, some at brain surgery.
Actually in this case, I think I need the explanation. I didn’t catch what the question was
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Second to the last paragraph — difference between storage and memory…:)
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Oh sorry! You had asked that in the comments on the WinDirStat post, and I answered there.
I do plan on doing a post that goes a little more in depth, but I hoped that my reply answered your questions. Let me know if it hasn’t.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
You did, but you said above that you “may even have to create a whole post about that subject.” So I should have said that I’ll look forward to that post. Sorry!
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
No sweat Kellypea! I did say that, and I should probably get to work on it.