Stats & plugins

I still need to do the monthly report post, but in the meantime, Kristen and I wasted some effort and whipped up a page that gives blog stats and info.

Read on for the gory details.

You can reach it via the sidebar, a small link in the Meta section. It has in it the following:

• Traffic stats, courtesy of Webalizer. A cron job copies this graph over every day at 3am from somewhere passworded to a publicly visible location.
• Bandwidth usage for the year, courtesy of whatever it is that my site hosting uses. Another cron job provides this. I’ll have to update it at the New Year, I suppose.
• What browsers hit the site and what operating systems they are running on, courtesy of Analog (a different stats program). Turns out these graphs were being generated, and just not displayed in the standard report I get, because they were in a different directory… another pair of cron jobs, and…
• Traffic rank and site info, using the code provided by Alexa.
• A bunch of Technorati info. Some links to my profile and site info, taken straight from Technorati’s site. The “how much is my blog worth” bit is neat but meaningless, and comes from here. Lastly, the bit on inbound links and sites, and accompanying Technorati rank, was a bit of a pain. I had to install DuckSoup, the PHP interface to the Technorati API, then I dug up some code somewhere that did something similar and hacked it.
• XBox Live gamercard and gamerscore, the latter provided by GamerScoreChart. This is here so that you can all comment how pathetic I am.
• A list of every active plugin on the site, which Kristen hacked together from the code that WordPress uses internally to display them. This is for all those folks who asked “what do you use for the WYSIWYG comments?” and similar questions. I have to admit I am appalled at how large a list it is!