Alexa Ranking

Just posting a chart showing the ranking given by Alexa to interfacebus.com
The ranking is based on who visits the site while using an Alexa Tool bar on their computer.

I really don't know how many engineers are shoppers and really use the tool bar, so the data may be biased against an engineering web site. However, some people will asked~ how are you ranked on Alexa.

File Back-up

I backed-up my web data files last night to a flash drive. I cycle through different flash drives every other week. This last back-up went on a 512MB Memorex Traveldrive flash drive. Had to delete a few older versions to get it to fit, but I have a few other USB flash drives around with different versions on them.

Flash Memory Stick Formats

Web Site off-line

interfacebus.com has been off-line most of the day, and so far half the night. When it was on-line, up-loads were very slow. The last time I put in a trouble ticket was Apr 16 for the same reason. So the site misses a day just about every month. My host is at http://www.infinology.com/

It's not so much about the money the site is not making today, or the new visitors that can't find the site. I've blocked off so time to work on it, but I can't because I can't view the on-line pages. On-line viewing insures the pages that are up-loaded are the ones that should be ~ checking.

Link Checking

I ran Xenu on interfacebus.com today. Xenu is a spider that goes out and checks all the links on a page or web site. I run Xenu about once a month against the web site. It's a free program to down load. The main stats returned are:
ok 5377 URLs 98.97%
user skip 1 URLs 0.02%
no info to return 1 URLs 0.02%
no connection 18 URLs 0.33%
forbidden request 8 URLs 0.15%
temporarily overloaded 1 URLs 0.02%
no such host 10 URLs 0.18%
timeout 9 URLs 0.17%
not found 5 URLs 0.09%
the resource is no longer available 1 URLs 0.02%
auth required 1 URLs 0.02%
server error 1 URLs 0.02%
Total 5433 URLs 100.00%

I checked all the ones returned as Time-out, No-connect and so on and came up with 5 dead links. There were 4 other dead pages, but Google cache showed them good just a few days earlier. So 5 dead links out of 5433 total links ~ not so bad. However those 5 bad links were listed on 20 different internal pages, so it toke a few hours to run the program and fix the errors.

Xenu checks local page-to-page links as well, so it's a great program for any webmaster.