Milestone: 54 Million Hits

Wow, it's the site's 54 millionth hit. These "hits" aren't a measure of humans visiting pages; that count would be much lower. It's just requests to the website: every time a robot visits some page, the count goes up. If a human views a page that contains a dozen graphics, those graphics cause another dozen hits. So "a million hits" isn't as impressive as it sounds. But hits are easy to measure so that's what I measure. We can take a look at the log: 3.235.215.92 - - [16/Aug/2026:10:14:14 +0000] "GET /new/2010/05/29/phae-decaying-you-remember-how-i-wrote-that-href/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4200 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36" OK, looks like Amazon.com has a webcrawler that fetches web pages to feed to an AI so Amazon can understand reviews better. E.g. by fetching my old blog post about a dangerous-but-impressive play structure no longer in a children's…