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Written by johnleemk on 11:42:30 pm Jan 2, 2007.

Categories: General

Some of you might have noticed that for much of yesterday and today, this site was down, displaying a message instructing you (rather, me - the webmaster) to contact my webhost. The problem turns out to be on my webhost's end, and not with me - I still have absolutely no idea what went wrong. I dispatched several emails to both my webhost and the company that runs their servers, and have received little to no response. (The company running their servers told me to contact them, which essentially isn't a response.)

At any rate, Infernal Ramblings is back up. I stayed up for a whole night making my desired changes, which mainly consist of putting up notices linking to the latest article, and also to the most popular articles in each category. (For instance, at the end of this article, you will likely see a list of five articles in the "General" category which have been most read.) I also added a page explaining how to use the web feeds feature of this site, which allows you to "subscribe" to the site - in effect staying up to date with it, without having to actually open your browser and visit.

I also tested my site in the 800x600 resolution for the first time, and was terribly disappointed to see how ugly it looked, especially in Internet Explorer. (I personally use Mozilla Firefox on a 1280x1024 resolution.) I made a number of changes to the site's code to spruce things up, but I am now using my college's computer lab to view the site - and at 1024x768, it's clear that there's a lot of work left to be done.

Another change you might or might not have noticed is that this site is now on the domain http://www.infernalramblings.uni.cc instead of http://www.iroatm.cjb.net - this is because I found a lot of people are unable to remember the complicated URL (frankly, I don't blame them). I discovered that a lot of people come to the site through searching for "iroatm" or "johnleemk" - and I think this is most likely because of the complicated domain name. This new one, though longer, should hopefully be easier to recall.

There is a saying amongst webmasters that content is king - no matter how pretty your site is, if it has nothing to say, it is useless. I have been working on a number of new articles to add to the site, and am also in the process of dealing with a number of comments I have received about the present material available. There will be more to read soon, and let's pray that my webhost doesn't do something crazy and bring the site down again.

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johnleemk Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged	Posted at 12:47:14 pm Oct 15, 2005 http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/analog.htm http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/webalizer.htm (ignore the lack of pictures) What, you're lazy to read them? Fine then. Here are some interesting statistics... In the month of October, the average amount of hits (page loads) a day is 983. Since the month began, there have been a total of 13762 hits. The most common ISP used by our visitors is TM Net, followed by Jaring. (Let's ignore all the bots of search engines, shall we?) People from 19 different countries have visited in October alone, ranging from Canada to Malaysia to the US to Singapore to Oman to Japan to Hungary. The most common sites to refer people to this site since it began were malaysia-today.net, haloscan.com (the comments site for limkitsiang.blogspot.com), jeffooi.com, malaysiakini.com and google.com.my. The top three browsers used to access this site were (in order of most pages accessed) Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. The three most popular forum topics were (in reverse order) this, this and this.
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johnleemk Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged	Posted at 4:57:55 am Dec 1, 2005 http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/awstatsnov05.html http://www.iroatm.cjb.net/bleh/webalizer_200511.html In the month of November, the average amount of hits per day was 1101. We had a total of 33040 hits. The most common browsers are now Firefox, IE and Opera (in that order). We had a total of 521 unique visitors. I'm lazy to elaborate on anything else.
johnleemk Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged	Posted at 9:38:01 am Mar 5, 2006 Okay, finally updating again. I'm adverse to uploading the stats pages again, so I'll just copy and paste relevant stuff for last month. We got 9212 hits, of which 162 were unique visitors (excluding search engine bots, etc.). Our busiest day by far was 11 Feb 2006, where we got 1351 hits. (I wonder who linked to us, or if all the search engines just started updating their indexes on that day.) For countries, my bean counters seem to have some disagreement. One claims most traffic is coming from Malaysia, with the rest mostly being from search engines, the UK, Singapore, or US education institutions. Some other countries listed by this fellow include South Africa, Japan, Italy, Canada, and India. The other one puts the bulk of traffic as coming from the US and Australia, with Malaysia far behind (ostensibly with 600 hits, as opposed to 2000 each for the US and Australia). This one also lists the same countries I mentioned, but also has the European Union, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. I have some interesting stats on visit duration. Supposedly 47% of all visitors stop reading after 30 seconds at the most, but 8.8% spend more than an hour on the site (I know I can't be that 8.8%). Another 8.3% spent between 30 minutes and an hour on the site. The most popular browser of our visitors is Firefox, with Internet Explorer close behind. Opera is a distant third. Some guy with a Mac out there is using Safari, too. Interestingly, 93% of all visitors directly entered the URL into their browser, or used a bookmark/favorites entry. (This means a lot of people are returning visitors.) 5.5% followed a link from somewhere else (mostly my Blogspot profile, Malaysia Today, my Wikipedia profile, and Vamp's blog. I'm also still getting hits from Malaysiakini, where a letter wrote once linked to here). Of the 1.2% from search engines, the bulk are from Yahoo!, with Google a distant second (Yahoo! has 2/3rds, Google has most of the remainder). Interestingly, there are a couple of hits from AOL France. Strange. Now, what you're all waiting for...the search keywords people used: iroatm 6 14.2 % literature in malaysian schools 3 7.1 % what do u think malays 2 4.7 % method of teaching reading in malaysian schools 1 2.3 % patriotic national song-malaysia 1 2.3 % the qualities of a best malaysian 1 2.3 % social contract between malay and chinese 1 2.3 % what do the malays celebrate? 1 2.3 % why do we teach literature in malaysian school 1 2.3 % history of malaysian schools 1 2.3 % pornografi malaysia 1 2.3 % lee ming keong 1 2.3 % http //iroatm.cjb.net 1 2.3 % statistics reports on malaysian school spm 1 2.3 % http //www.iroatm.cjb.net/index.php 1 2.3 % moral values taught in malaysian schools 1 2.3 % patriotic song at malaysia 1 2.3 % essays for malaysian schools 1 2.3 % school sucks 1 2.3 % malaysian students don t read book 1 2.3 % the reason for students weak in speaking in malaysian students 1 2.3 % malay lazy 1 2.3 % leaving school for moral contributing 1 2.3 % social contract in malaysia 1 2.3 % safety in malaysian schools 1 2.3 % http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/08 1 2.3 % http //www.iroatm.cjb.net/forums/index.php?fid=7 1 2.3 % articles on literature in malaysian schools 1 2.3 % why it is very important for malaysian educational? 1 2.3 % malaysian curriculum change 1 2.3 % parliment speaker speech malaysia 1 2.3 % pornografi of chinese 1 2.3 % lazy malays 1 2.3 % johnleemk 1 2.3 %
johnleemk Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged	Posted at 5:57:16 am Feb 2, 2007 A quick summary of the month of January: We had about 6000 visits to the site; the daily average was about 200 visits The busiest hour is 11PM, Malaysian time (GMT+8) The most popular article was The Death of Malaysia, closely followed by this dreary thing about proxies. The next best performer, Pak Lah: To Resign or Not Resign barely had half the pageviews of the proxy article. The three most-used keywords to find this site on search engines were all names of people; the first was "johnleemk", the second was "siti nurhaliza" (I blame this article), and the third was "nur amalina che bakri" (who I only wrote about once, here). About 60% of pageloads came from people who either bookmarked the site or subscribe to one of the feeds; the rest came from either links or search engines.

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