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Question for the webmasters around here:

I'm parsing my web server logs with #goaccess. It tells me that this mornings blog post has around 2400 hits, 1600 visitors. The post includes an image, and I can see from the logs that the image has been accessed around 250 times.

I would expect the image to be downloaded roughly the same number of times as the website, however these numbers are vastly different. And I don't really understand why.

Any ideas?

And related, much of the traffic on the site is from crawlers with the user agent "http.rb/5.2.0". What could that be?

Roll your own static blog analytics!

Static blogs come with tons of advantages. They’re cheap to serve. You store all your changes in git. People with spotty internet connections can clone your blog and run it locally.

However, one of the challenges that I’ve run into over the years is around analytics. 🤔

major.io/p/static-blog-analyti

major.io · Roll your own static blog analyticsStatic blogs are easy to serve, but so many of the free options have no analytics whatsoever. This post talks about how to serve your own blog from a container with live updating analytics
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Thought I'd analyze some traffic on mountains.social. These are stats gathered via goaccess and show stats for the last two weeks. Have excluded "crawlers" which would also include the inter-fediverse-instance-chatter (majority of the traffic by the way). Have also excluded the traffic of the media files.

Not sure what was so special on Feb 12th with regards to number of visitors. Furthermore you can see when the US wakes up (times are in UTC, in the afternoon the traffic increases). Overall still most traffic is coming from Europe.

Windows as an operating system is still the most popular, but not much (macOS is a good second).