Sunday, March 25, 2007

Time for the ol' blog to grow up a little...

As some of you know, in addition to this blog, I also contribute to another blog, Progressive Wave's AZ-05 (think: 'all Harry Mitchell, all the time'). On that site is something that heretofore has not been needed on this site. A site meter to measure traffic.

I have gotten into the habit of checking it regularly, not so much for the number of visits but for the characteristics of the visitors. One of the many things that I have learned (not that it was any surprise!) is that most of the visitors find the site through Google searches for something about Harry Mitchell or one of the issues that he has worked on (lots of hits over the Walter Reed/VA medical care mess).

On Saturday, there was a very interesting visitor. From the Visit Detail page (emphasis mine):


Domain Name (Unknown)
IP Address 161.51.11.# (KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT)
ISP KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT


Location
Continent: North America
Country: United States (Facts)
State: Texas
City: Houston
Lat/Long: 29.7734, -95.3201 (Map)

Language: English (United States)en-us
Operating System Microsoft WinXP
Browser Internet Explorer 6.0Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
Javascript version 1.3
Monitor Resolution: 1024 x 768
Color Depth: 32 bits

Time of Visit Mar 24 2007 4:20:23 am
Last Page View Mar 24 2007 4:22:32 am
Visit Length 2 minutes 9 seconds
Page Views 2

Referring URL http://www.google.co...emental bill&spell=1
Search Engine google.com
Search Words congressman harry mitchell vote on supplemental bill
Visit Entry Page http://az05.progressivewave.net/
Visit Exit Page http://az05.progressivewave.net/
Out Click Harry Mitchell http://www.harrymitchellforcongress.com/
Time Zone UTC+3:00
Visitor's Time Mar 24 2007 3:20:23 pm
Visit Number 830

So who says that Bush'$ war isn't about Halliburton'$ bottom line? FYI -Kellogg Brown & Root is one of Halliburton's subsidiaries.

Now for the important question -

Anybody know a good site meter...make that a free good site meter? That's all that the blog budget can afford. :))

Later!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

You're doing a great job over at Progressive Wave. I've been a big slacker for several reasons.

As for the stat counter, I was using SiteMeter for a few years but something went screwy with it in January so I switched over to StatCounter. I'm pleased so far. (They're both free)

Craig said...

Thanks! I'll look into both.

shrimplate said...

Wow man. You've got an effing Halliburton troll.

I'm envious. AND paranoid!

Anonymous said...

Conside Google Analytics. Free, easy to use, and its google. ;-)