I forgot webrings exist

I don’t usually check analytics on my website, but the hosting I use on Vercel does provide the ability to check referrals, and I have to admit, every once in a while I enjoy to see those! It’s not because I am obsessed with people who visit my website (although I kind of am), or because I want to write according to what my readers view the most (although I sometimes do that too). I simply love to see when someone links to a post of mine for the first time, and I see their website on my referrals showing up. A lot of the time it’s only four or five clicks from X or Y small website. Since I only get the referral, an investigation is sure to follow! I love to explore blogs, digital gardens, and personal websites in any form. Checking their blogrolls, reading through their guestbooks, skimming through posts to see where we may share interests or hobbies. However, every once in a while I’d find a website that would have no mention of me whatsoever anywhere in the page, and I wasn’t sure…