More Blog Updates
MAY 16, 2022
05/14/22 7:55 AM
I added back a web log yesterday (Friday, May 13th) and it's been interesting to see the locations where the hits are originating. I can't tell who's there, but I can tell that the hits are coming from users who are clients of the web service providers that own the pool of IP addresses from which the hits are coming.
I also intend to add back the capability to keep my IP address logged so that I can eliminate any logging activity that comes from that IP address. That will allow me to make changes to the blog without those updates presenting log entries.
I'm also anticipating adding back the capability to see website stats for the hits on the menu and various pages on the website. It will be interesting to see what's being reviewed and how often, and also whether or not the hits are coming from users via web providers or web crawlers owned by folks like Google.
More on that to come as I get things developed.
Foot Notes
05/14/22 03:50 PM
Well, in paragraph #2 above, I went ahead and wrote some code with a
hard-coded IP address in it. That should suffice in the short-term,
since my IP almost never changes, but I'll need to update that code
to remove the hard-coded IP address and ensure the tested IP address
is the current IP address - just in case the IP address does change.
From paragraph #3 above, I went ahead and finished up the hit counters
for all of the pages I built. I won't be tracking visits to other sites,
but will be tracking all visits to anything I have built, which turned
out to be 15 pages in total.
I want to dabble with some more changes to the tracking of visits and the
logging, but am not quite sure what I want to add. More to come on that...
While I'm able and usually do write at least a day ahead of anything I publish,
I've also added the capability to review unpublished material as it will appear
when it is published and have been enjoying that feature for a while now. It's
pretty cool the way it works!
I've also manually added the owners of the webcrawlers and web service providers
to the log entires and plan to add some code to do that automatically. That should
be an interesting project! (Addendum) In fact, I've been doing some of that today
(05/15/22) and it turns out to be a very interesting and challenging project!
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