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	<title>Matt Fowler &#187; hits</title>
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		<title>Wow!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was shocked when I checked AwStats last night. I&#8217;m usually not one of those people who really cares how many people go to my site, because I honestly thought that I only had a small group. Well, I did when I first started with this site.. I remember back in 2004 when the domain [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was shocked when I checked AwStats last night. I&#8217;m usually not one of those people who really cares how many people go to my site, because I honestly thought that I only had a small group. Well, I did when I first started with this site.. I remember back in 2004 when the domain was first purchased and there was just a place holder, I would get about 1-2 hits a day, averaging about 40 hits per month. That seemed good for me, considering that nobody knew about my site other than the people I had told.</p>
<p>I guess when you have a site for 4 years things really do catch on. I looked at AwStats and my daily hits (average) were anywhere from 2000-4000&#8230;DAILY! That&#8217;s pretty good for a personal site! Then I looked at Mointhly averages and it ranges anywhere from 6500-10,000 visits a month. I&#8217;m not talkin about hits, I&#8217;m talking about Unique visitors&#8230; DAMN! I had no idea I was actually that popular.</p>
<p>But my only question is this: I have so many visitors, yet nobody ever comments what I write on here. I guess people come here, read it- and they are done. I wonder if I stupidly have it set up to where you have to create an account to post a comment. I&#8217;m pretty sure I don&#8217;t, though. Then again, doing that stops spammers. (Though I still get a few spam comments that I have to deny every once in awhile &#8212; you know the ones I&#8217;m talking about. They use you for your trackbacks.)</p>
<p>That was one thing that concerned me &#8211; are all these hits Spammers? &#8212; But AwStats is fully functional and tells me where they came from, what browser, etc. And I don&#8217;t think they are all spammers. I think about 50-100 of the hits &amp; visits are spammers, and the rest are <strong>real</strong> people looking at my site.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m touched, and if I could I&#8217;d thank everyone who visits my site, but since I don&#8217;t know them, I can&#8217;t. So I&#8217;ll just say it on here (just in case there are some reoccurring visitors!) THANKS!!</p>
<p>Ok, I&#8217;m done for now. I just wanted to share this newly discovered fact.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you don&#8217;t have AwStats for your page, you really need to get it. <a href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/">http://awstats.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
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