Tag: stats

  • stats stats lay down flat

    blog stats for yesterday: over 4000 hitsOh my. This blog is usually a quiet little backwater, ticking along on a few hundred hits a day. And I’m okay with that. But yesterday, my astonishingly impractical QR code clock hit the front page of RaspberryPi.org, and blammo! More visitors than I thought possible. Are there really over 4000 people who read that? Cor, to use a good British comic-ism.

    I’ve been blogging for nearly ten years, filed under what could only charitably be called “miscellaneous”. Yesterday, I got 2% of all the hits I’ve ever had. See the tiny little bar just to the left of the big one? Yeah, that was my previous best ever, with nearly 600 hits.

  • 24 hours after sending 286 digital QSL cards …

    Of the 286 secure digital QSL cards I sent, 8 were undeliverable. I’ve had 25 responses so far:

    • Fourteen positive
    • Three wondering if I hadn’t seen their confirmation on eQSL/QRZ/LoTW
    • Two that don’t accept QSLs of any kind
    • One language issue; I have “Report” when “RST/RSQ” might be clearer internationally
    • One completely neutral
    • One auto responder
    • One with no record of a QSO in their log
    • One saying their callsign has been hijacked and that they are no longer an active ham
    • One negative

    Of the positive ones:

    • Two have also sent real QSL cards (thanks, guys, but really, you shouldn’t have …)
    • Two asked how I did it.

    Pretty good and quick response, I thought.