I feel cocky tonight, so I’ll present you with deceiving stats for this web site. I intentionally cropped the graphs to have 400px width so that they won’t mess up the layout of the web site. Giving, of course, the sample containing the highest peak.
If you see a graph, do not conclude immediately. You need more information in order to understand the situation — the behavior of the sample. Statistics is widely used now to give us false information. Every morning you will hear these information in the news. Researchers taking down stats and most of us make facts out of these samples. That’s why I hate the medical field so very much because of its dependence to stats.
Below is a Wordpress blogstat graph. Even though I’m showing a sample with the higest peak, blogstat shows that this is a typical activity for this site. That’s an average of 1000 visits. Blogstat does not compute according to a visitor’s uniqueness. So you may think that I’m bored every day and since I have no life, I visit the site 1000 or so times in order to see a graph looking like this.
You thought wrong! Below is a graph from Google Analytics. It’s really a boring graph because it’s nearly constant (almost a straight line). The graph below (the Y-axis has an interval of 1000 visitors) is showing an average of 1000 UNIQUE visitors daily. That proves the graph above to be legitimate.
Why then did I entitle this entry “Deceiving…”? Well, I intentionally omitted relevant information. The information I omitted do not affect the result of the graphs above, but they do affect the understanding of how the site is doing.
May 28th, 2008
Okay I have been wondering about these in the past few weeks (or months maybe):
- How come new bloggers still use Blogspot.com over Wordpress.com?
- Why is there a need to create multiple blogsites? (most of the time are not updated)
Results of my ponders:
- I still have no idea, but I strongly suggest new bloggers to use wordpress.com… Much nicer… and with class.
- (a) In order to increase PageRank. (Get your friends to hyperlink you, damnit!)
(b) Increase income. (Annoying and you are a disgrace to blogworld.)
(c) People, what’s the use of CATEGORIES if you’ll be making a different site for each category you can think of?
Confessions & Defense:
I have four (4) domains, two of which are publicly active. One is private. One is under construction for more than a year. I also have one (1) Tumblr site. This domain of course is personal web site (contains blogs). The other domain is for my town (a web site) so it makes sense that I have to separate that. Not so much traffic in that either because only the “townspeople” can understand that site. The internet radio which I may shutdown later on is for my own amusement - and select others. I can’t put that in here because it’s static based - old skool! The under construction site is not worth talking about. My Tumblr site is more like a dumpsite of media bookmarks. Media streams that I don’t want to mess this site’s layout. Visit that site ’cause it has fun stuff.
Any thoughts?
May 28th, 2008
I’m not a UNIX guru, so I can’t really memorize all commands. When upgrading my Wordpress version, I only run four lines of commands, but I can’t remember the parameters. Today, I was in the mood to write a simple bash shell script so that next time all I have to do to upgrade my site are: backup, run the script, relax… The script does not backup data and design files. If you are to use the code, make sure to backup before running the script. Check out Wordpress for backup solutions.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Wordpress Upgrade Script
# Author: Alfonso Varon
#
# PRECONDITION: Data & design backup should have been done.
#
echo "Warning!!! Backup design files and data before proceeding..."
echo -e "\n"
echo -e "Let's begin...\n"
echo -n "Which site would you like to update ([1]=arot, [2]=sol): ”
read -e SITE
setterm -background $SITE
if [ $SITE -eq 1 ] # upgrade ARoT
then
echo “Changing to A Record of Thoughts directory…”
cd ~/public_html
elif [ $SITE -eq 2 ] # upgrade SoL
then echo “Changing to Sapian Online’s directory…”
cd ~/public_html/xxx
fi
echo -e “We are currently in directory:”
pwd
echo -e “\n”
echo -e “Downloading the latest version of Wordpress…”
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
echo -e “Done.”
echo -e “Unzipping the package…”
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
echo -e “Done.”
echo -e “Upgrading…”
cp -rpf –reply=yes wordpress/* ./
echo -e “Done.”
echo -e “Cleaning…”
rm -rf ./wordpress
rm latest.tar.gz
echo -e “Done.\n”
echo -e “Wordpress files have been upgraded. Go to the administration
panel for further upgrade instructions.”
April 5th, 2008
WP2.5 is coming out soon (already late). My theme is still the primitive version. It doesn’t even support widgets yet. I’ve done so much modifications in this theme and I stupidly forgot to keep tabs of the changes. Now I’m contemplating whether to upgrade the theme as I upgrade WP. Should I?
EDITION: I decided to create a test site and start fiddling with the new’r version.
March 10th, 2008
I’m pretty sure not everyone using Wordpress knows the software’s origin. Well, if you are curious, I’ll let you know. Wordpress was a distribution of a b2. If you are doing your own editing of the Wordpress sotware, the familiarity of b2 will be there.
I thought of posting an entry on this because I was wondering if the b2 site that I used to constantly visit for updates during the infancy of blogging is still there (in its URL address). I’m glad it is still there…untouched.
Kudos to Michel!
April 22nd, 2007
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