On the quirks of referrers
No small part of why I bought a "Pro" account at Flickr was the stats feature, which has been improved a couple of times in the past year (the most recent being a close to real-time feature. This is balanced by "today" seeming to start earlier than it used to, or being somehow linked to when one logs in, but I don't care enough to try and suss it out).
I can sort my photos by comments, favorites, "interestingness" and hits. (for those who aren't squicked by strange looking creatures, Camel Spider Cricket is the hands down winner. I get 5-20 hits a day from Google/Google Images/Yahoo Images. In the time it's been up more than a thousand people have looked at it. Camel spiders seem to be a big search term).
This week I had an anomaly, 1,500 hits in a couple of hours, about 1/3rd of my images got looked at twice, from, "unknown" sources.
But mostly it's the usual. I'll post a shot to a group, and see a cluster of hits to related images. Or someone will fave a photo of mine, and other people will follow it. That, and links from here (here being Lj in the generic) pretty much account for my count.
It's gone up. From a background of about 20, to 60 to the present about 120 (with spikes when I make a post).
But sometimes there are strange ones, like this one from, of all places, youtube. I got two hits from that. From the video (how to use a Nokia phone, of some sort). It doesn't help the hits weren't to the same image (I tracked one down, to a photo I put up today [even though it's listed in yesterday's stats, see above about the strange timing of, "today"]. With 511 images, I'm not going to scan all the ones which only got one hit).
And the charming ones. A seem to be the beneficiary of people mistyping things: losanges windows as a google string gets to a picture I too, as the first hit under, "did you mean lozenge windows"?
So, the image which youtube directed a hit my way:
Mourning Cloak
Which I took today, when we released her. She'd been brought to Marcia by another teacher, who found the branch outside her classroom. It's a good thing she was with us, as the school sprayed the bushes last week.
I can sort my photos by comments, favorites, "interestingness" and hits. (for those who aren't squicked by strange looking creatures, Camel Spider Cricket is the hands down winner. I get 5-20 hits a day from Google/Google Images/Yahoo Images. In the time it's been up more than a thousand people have looked at it. Camel spiders seem to be a big search term).
This week I had an anomaly, 1,500 hits in a couple of hours, about 1/3rd of my images got looked at twice, from, "unknown" sources.
But mostly it's the usual. I'll post a shot to a group, and see a cluster of hits to related images. Or someone will fave a photo of mine, and other people will follow it. That, and links from here (here being Lj in the generic) pretty much account for my count.
It's gone up. From a background of about 20, to 60 to the present about 120 (with spikes when I make a post).
But sometimes there are strange ones, like this one from, of all places, youtube. I got two hits from that. From the video (how to use a Nokia phone, of some sort). It doesn't help the hits weren't to the same image (I tracked one down, to a photo I put up today [even though it's listed in yesterday's stats, see above about the strange timing of, "today"]. With 511 images, I'm not going to scan all the ones which only got one hit).
And the charming ones. A seem to be the beneficiary of people mistyping things: losanges windows as a google string gets to a picture I too, as the first hit under, "did you mean lozenge windows"?
So, the image which youtube directed a hit my way:
Mourning Cloak
Which I took today, when we released her. She'd been brought to Marcia by another teacher, who found the branch outside her classroom. It's a good thing she was with us, as the school sprayed the bushes last week.