Jun 24
I slapped together some stats yesterday. I’d been meaning to do so for a while, and I like what I came up with.
It shows post and comment totals as well as the number of words in all posts and in all comments. It then shows the number of “pages” of posts and comments. The number [...] [...more]
Posted: under Technology.
I slapped together some stats yesterday. I’d been meaning to do so for a while, and I like what I came up with.
It shows post and comment totals as well as the number of words in all posts and in all comments. It then shows the number of “pages” of posts and comments. The number of pages is supposed to be like the equivalent of the number of typed, doubled spaced pages of writing. It guesstimates 275 words per page in this manner. The numbers really add up. It’s also worth noting that I used code from mtdewvirus to get the numbers from WP that I needed. (oddly enough, this guy lives only like an hour away from me)
My favorite though is the number of novels count. Most of the information I could dig up cited a good length to shoot for if you were trying to write a novel for the first time is around 100,000 words. I wanted more of a real world number to use than 100,000 (plus, it would divide too cleanly). I looked around for the number of words in some popular novels that I could think of off the top of my head and I had no luck finding anything. Then it occurred to me that I could hop on over to project gutenberg (a repository for books, in digital form, that have passed out of copyright and into the public domain. They have thousands of books (primarily from pre-1900) available to download for free and it’s all legal as they’re in the public domain.). Once there, I decided to go ahead and download Huck Finn and once I had stripped all the extra info at the start and end of the file that project gutenberg ads to each text, I came up with an actual novel that had a length of 111, 132 words. That’s the figure I use to figure out how many novels that I’ve written (uses word count from posts only).
Jun 24
I started using feedburner the other day. It’s a service that will essentially compile statistics for your feeds. I also have to say that it was really easy to setup in WordPress (it should be really easy to setup anywhere…) and I’ll explain exactly how to do so.
Feedburner gives you stats on your feeds. It [...] [...more]
Posted: under Internet.
I started using feedburner the other day. It’s a service that will essentially compile statistics for your feeds. I also have to say that it was really easy to setup in WordPress (it should be really easy to setup anywhere…) and I’ll explain exactly how to do so.
Feedburner gives you stats on your feeds. It can actually tell you how many people have subscribed to your feeds and what reader they’re using. It also recognizes hits from browsers and from bots (and does not include these in the number of people subscribed). It sounds like the pro version gives some nifty stats, although at just under $5 a month, I don’t care enough to find out anytime soon. There are various things that feedburner can do, but besides stats the one I find the most interesting is that when it detects a browser accessing the feed, it will spit out an actual page that explains exactly what a feed is and it shows the feed’s content in a legible form. This is by far better than a useless xml display that visitors would otherwise see. I don’t exactly have any high-traffic feeds, but when you sign up with them they’re essentially hosting your feed, so there’s the potential for saving some bandwidth with the whole deal as well. (they’re really making a copy of your feed and serving it up…your feed is still out there, but there’s also a feedburner feed with the same content) more_link_text
