Milestone: 55 Million Hits

Wow, it's the site's 55 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: 223.11.179.11 - - [13/Nov/2026:15:14:51 +0000] "GET /new/atom.xml HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Tingjian/1.0 (+public RSS reader)" Let's see, it's an RSS feed reader (i.e., blog reader) checking to see if I've updated my blog. Looking at other blog hits on my site that day, looks like this feed reader checked three times for updates. Wow, that's pretty reasonable. The IP address looks like it's in China, which might explain why it's an RSS reader I haven't heard of named "Tingjian." Seems like in recent years a lot of my N-millionth-hit blog posts…

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