Web History Stats

Went ahead and started to compare web stats for this year and last. So far they look about the same. Of course I don't have any data for December yet, but I can estamate that. Last year. December saw 126,000 unique visitors. So I should see around 1,650,000 visitors this year, or about the same amount as last year.

Google PageRank Reduced

I noticed my Google PageRank reduced from a 5 to a 4 on interfacebus.com. The site has had a PageRank of 5 for years now, although I have seen a reduction in the past. Using Google Webmaster Tools I can see which page on the site has the highest PageRank. Back in August a page other the the index page had the highest PageRank, so it does go up and down.

It could be that the Home page was just a 5.0 instead of say a 5.8 so maybe it's common for the index to slide between a four and 5, but I don't see a PageRank of 4 that often.

Why does the PageRank change; well it's recalculated each month. Some page that link to you may be off-line when the GoogleBot checks them making appear that fewer external pages are being linked in at any given time.

MS Web Site Issues

OUTDATED TEXT REMOVED, 6-28-2010

Same thing happened with the browser that Google came out with; Chrome. I could not access the site data using that browser either ~ There is a previous post about that issue, I think. So now, Firefox now longer works. What, it's an MS site, so only Internet Explorer will work on a Microsoft Soft web site.........

Any way I posted a graphic which shows hits to serialphy.com, which is another site I operate. The two main items are the Orange line which shows unique visits, and the yellow line which depicts number of visits.

I see an increase in visitors, so I'm fine with that. Notice I do not provide any hard numbers ~ there to low...... Oh, November is low because it's still mid-month, so that data will not be available for another 15 days.

Spider Crawl Stats

I just checked the crawl stats for interfacebus.com using Google's Webmaster Tools. The attached graphic shows Googlebot's [Google's spider] activity over the last 90 days.

The first two graphs appear normal, but the last graph does not. Check out the reduction in time to spider a page even as the amount of data downloaded has increased.

Does this mean that my server has gotten faster over the last few months? Or maybe Google is coming out at 3am when there are less people using the server?

What's new blog

Looks like the companion blog used to indicate new pages to interfacebus.com is a year old now. The blog just provides a link to new pages as they are added to the site. There were 35 entries last year and another 73 additions this year for a total of 108 separate blog pages. Many of these pages contain several 'new' links to pages that were just added to the site, so a few hundred pages have been added over the last year.

Open Office Down Load

Open Office came out with a new version the other day. So I went ahead and down loaded version 3.0 of Open Office tonight. I think the previous version I used was 2.4, but I'm not really sure.

Open Office is one of the free versions of MS Office, but produce by another company and it has nothing to do with Microsoft. Free is a lot better than $600.......

Check it out at openoffice.org,

Googl Chrome Stats

I'm not seeing any real increase in visits from the Google Chrome browser.

But, I just noticed something else..... I was just out trying to check a new page that was added a few days ago, which had a link off of one of the dictionary pages. However the page did not contain the link to the new page. Checked the server and the server showed the page was just up-dated a few days ago. Hmm, I hit the 'reload this page button' and the link shows up, "Pulse Shape".

In Internet Explorer, for example, there is an option to 'Automatically' check for a newer version of the page, but I can not find that option in the Chrome Browser. Yea, we don't like that........

Web Site Birthday

I just realized that the web pages now located at interfacebus.com are ten years old this year. Now the current site was started in 2000 with the purchase of the current domain name, but it had lived out on another web address before that.

Figured I would list a few pages that were not doing so well, like the pages with the lest amount of page views:

Definition of an ESD Wrist Strap.

Definition of a Compliant Pin.

Compliance Testing, looks like this page needs a little work.

Manufactures of Rack Mountable TFT LCD Displays.

Listing of Manufacturers, Vm. Has no page rank either

Listing of Manufacturers, J, Has no page rank.

Keying Electronic Chassis for Card identification.

IEEE-488, A-A-55145 Connector Drawing.

Definition of Resistor Terms, letter 'V'.

Listing of Interface Buses, Letter 'Q'.

Definition of Balum.

Definition of MIL-STD-100, letter 'D'.

Some of those pages are new, so low page hits make sense, but some are a bit older. Most did not seem to have a page rank, but if their new it's ok.

I used Google Analytics to determine low page hits, sorted by page views. Within the sorted list are hundreds of mis-spelled pages on the low end of the "pageview" scale, in a total list of 2,726 URLs. The site only has around 1,300 pages.

Browser Analytics

I took another look at how Google Chrome is doing on the web site, or with the web site. Seems the new browser is doing good. As the attached graphic shows, in the last several days Google Chrome has now reached 1.61% of the traffic. That's not so bad for just a few days, it's already at number five in the list. Click that graphic for a larger view...

Seems like by next week it will pass both Safari and Opera and place third on the list. If I remember I'll post again next month to show how the new Browser is doing....

Google Chrome Web Broswer

Just down loaded and started using Google Chrome and already found a bug. When I try to open my MS Office Live site, Microsoft sends me to a page saying I need to use either IE or Foirfox and it provides links to down load them? Hello, I'm using Chrome.... There's a screen shot just above, click to see a larger image.

Here is a link to down load the new broswer: http://www.google.com/chrome

Each of my sites seem to render ok, I don't see any issues.

Hmm, I just made another bug report. The pages do not always open from the top, but several inches down from the top. Clicking a link to go to a new page, the new page opens half way down its page.

Yet another bug, I think. I was out editing one of my Knol's and I noticed that there were no words underlined as misspelled. There should have been many terms 'high-lighted' as misspelled because of all the acronyms used [knol]. In fact, I see a misspelled word here that is not highlighted? Guess I will report this bug too.

A few hours later I noticed that the address bar is also used a the search bar. I came to that conculsion after not being able to find the search bar and just words typing into the address bar ~ and it worked. Now I see an artical in cnn that indicates the same thing. Google calls it the Omni Box

Decrease in Visits

This month interfacebus received the lowest visits for the year, with about 121,000 unique visitors. Just a little less then June of last year, but higher than June/July of 2006.

So visits are still flat over the last three years. Anything before 2006 is much lower than the last three years.

The web site serialphy is also stable over the last few months, but with only a few hundred hits a month. Serialphy is up over the first four months of the year.

[Text Removed 6-28-2010]

A new site was started over the last few weeks on Google Sites and is also called interfacebus, but with a different root address. This sites now has 12 total pages. A counter was just added yesterday so there is no data on site visits ~ other than a few showing today. A second site was also started, but only holds the sitemaps for the three other web sites; interfacebussitemap.

Google Sites is free......

Google Sites

I've generated about 17 pages out on Google Sites, most are copies from my "old" Google Page Creator site. I have taken a few pages off line, but most pages are still up on the old site, with a note pointing to the new Google Sites page 'interfacebus'.

I just added the tracking code from Google Analytics, so now the pages have a counter. By Monday I should see some data, assuming anyone has found those pages yet.

I also added the code to generate a Google Sitemap for the site. Not really sure why Google has you generate a Site-map, shouldn't they know about web pages that reside on their own site?

I still have a lot of gif files out on Page Creator that I really need to move

Web Pages Updates and Graphics

Following last weeks running of Xenu to check for 'bad' links, many of the re-directed links have been up-dated. Remember, links that are re-directed are not broken...

During this same time graphic files from my Google Page Creator site are being moved to a new storage location. To reduce server bandwidth many picture files are stored out on Google Page Creator, and not on the interfacebus server. But, Google is closing that 'beta' program so a new storage location needs to be found. Errors can occur while up-dating the html code as the pic file addresses are up-dated. Xenu will need to be run ounce again to find any of these new errors.

The Google Page Creator site also held html pages which need to be relocated. Google has a new html generation program called Google Sites. Today I added nine new pages to Google Sites, which are copies of the old Google Page Creator program. All of the new pages added today really just hold a graphic, like the previous site, but the graphic was deleted from Page Creator in favor of a link to the new page.

I'm still not happy that instead of fixing Google Page Creator, they decided to close the sites. I started my site in 2006, that's 2 years of generating a 'page rank' and other people finding my pages and linking to me. This mentality of keeping all services as beta, for years, is BS. My pages were 'in addition' to my main site, supporting the site ~ what about those people that started an on-line bussiness using Page Creator?

Here is the new address for the new site interfacebus, hit the sitemap link on the left menu bar to see all the pages. Again, these pages only hold a graphic, and their new. No pages link to them and there are no page to page links, other than the sitemap. Any page on the main site 'interfacebus.com' will still be linking to the older site.

I've also completed a few Knols in the last few weeks, but I'm not sure how to indicate how to find them. Google seems to be .... what? I don't get it. Search "knol" on Google, then search "RS232" ~ you will then find that knol, with links to the other knols; hint [RS-232].

There are many redirects

Was it just yesterday when I indicated I didn't need to run Xenu? What was I thinking with that comment? That program just found a number of link re-directs that indicate a company (website) has been taken over by another company. I don't worry and seldom correct redirects from links that move from 'what.com' to 'what.com/eng' companies do that crap all the time. But, the ones I noted seemed to move from one company to another companies web site ~ I guess times are hard all over.

The report contains a number of sections, and 're-directs' is just one of those reports. I fixed the 'bad' ones and saved the others. I did not review the "bad links" section; because, mostly that just means the site is down. I did find three sites that were redirected to the server which is not good. When a site redirects to the server that is running ads it means the site is history ~ those links were removed.

Many of these sites were already linked from my site as 'rel=no follow', which means I was telling the search engines not to follow the links, or the link is not really there (to the computer) so my site does not get pinged.

I'll never understand why some companies re-direct so often, it's like they don't get the book-mark button. One company e-mailed me a few years ago; you must change the link on this page to 'what-ever.com' [it's important]; ok; but, by the way your linked on a dozen other pages as this, and this, and this company ~ ! There is one company that always stands out over the last few years, well really two companies that always have bad links ~ I just delete them now. Why link to some one if you can't find what your looking for, or you get a 404 [page not found code].

Our incoming visits are reduced, so let's change our address so people can no longer find us. What? Yea we don't need all the sites that link to use, our page rank or any incoming links from other pages, the 'bad link we'll make us better......


Who runs these sites or their web masters? Somebody just does not get it.

Time to spider the site again

This week end I'll run the Xenu spider again to check for bad links. Some time after that I'll run the GsiteCrawler to generate an xml site map to upload to Google web-master tools [after I fix any issues found by the Xenu crawler]. I never run a crawler during normal office hours, as they put a strain on the server. Both Crawlers have to check each page on the server; or 1523 active pages and 209 inactive pages.

I've updated 1,440 pages since the Xenu program was run, but most have been html up-dates [a few gif files may be included in that count]. However; I've hand checked most pages over that time so I should not find that many issues. I was running the spider program once a month, but it seemed to miss a few issues so I've been hand checking links. The last check by the program indicated 5,978 links

Twenty new pages were added to the site since 6/7/08, so it's about time for a Google site map via GsiteCrawler. There may be a few page-to-page link updates that have been made as well, but not many ~ should make a more up to date site-map regardless.

Most of the page up-dates are due to one or more of these issues [most updated at the same time / page]:

Java script code change for Google Analytics [page visit counter]
Java script code change for Google Ads
Removal of all Java Script code for Google Referral Ads [program terminated]
Removal of two different meta tags [html coding issues, redundant un-required code]
Re-direct gif links as Google pages go out of service [Google web site terminated]
Java script code change for the Google Search Bar [ Code up-date, but not required]
Non-US ['dot'com] pages getting the html rel 'no follow' code [html non visible change]

The attached pic is of a Georgia map indicating 188 visits from that country so far this year. Russia just invaded them.....

edison software program review

I down loaded and installed edison from Verdiem tonight based on an article I saw. What a waste of time that was, and now they have my e-mail address.

The program was to make my computer go green by giving me more control over how it operated when I wasn't using it, when it should go to sleep and so on. I was going to make a smaller carbon foot-print and help the environment ~ or not.

I clicked on the schedule tab to set my time when I use the computer, it indicates the 'non-work time' is already set for you ~ how the hell does the program know that? The 'work time' is adjustable but fixed for the days you select, so you can select 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. My computer usage is 5am to 7am M-F and 6pm to 8pm M-F, but you can't select two different time frames. Plus, Saturdays and Sundays are also different, but again the time frame is fixed regardless of the day.

How is this different than just having the OS put the computer in sleep mode? edison is a joke, plus I have yet one more program running in my task bar consuming my expensive memory.

I do not recommend using edison by Verdiem because I just don't see how it benifits a user. Yes it tells you your kWh usage or saving or what ever, but so what. The program is taking up $50 of my RAM to do the same thing that Windows Vista already does. Yes it "seems" to calculate a savings if I set it to turn my PC off while I'm still using it, but that's not why I purchased a $2000 computer.

I only opened it, noticed the lack of options and closed the program two minutes later. I did not detect any options that made it appear any different than the options with the MS OS, and I plan to remove it once I submit this posting. Any e-mails to my gmail account will be flagged as spam.

Google Page Creater

It appears that Goggle is dumping their original free web pages call Google Page Creator. I don't know if it was much of a surprise. The program lacked any real tools and sort of appeared as a toy compared to what Microsoft was offering [Live Spaces]. So, the message I saw indicated that some time this year the site would close and all web pages would be moved over to their new site called Google Sites. Yea, I don't think much of their new site either.

So for the last two years I've had a few dozen web pages located out on Google Page Creator. That's two years of web history that will be lost when they decide to close down that program. Two years of gaining external web links and of course a page rank. Now any new page I start on 'Sites' begins with a page rank of zero, and no other external sites linking in.

Worse still, I was storing about 50 picture files out there that interfacebus was using with in that site. I must have that number of pages on interfacebus that linked to those pic files [to save bandwidth] that have to be updated. Which one of my pages used those pic files? Which pages linked to the html files out there?

The new site is here, but its just a blank page or so, as I'm still trying to figure out how to use 'Sites. I hate it already, but I need an external site....

Web Page Usage

Last October I posted some data on the number of pages for each of the web sites I run. So 9 months later I figured I would recount and post the new data, which follows below. I don't track the information, but new graphic files are also always being added.

Notes on the Chart.
Unique Visits = Total different people per month
Visits = Total number of people including retuning visits, on a per month basis.
Pages = Number of pages viewed, normally 2 or 3 times the number of visits.
Bandwidth = server bandwidth, relative only to its self.
Click on the graphic for a larger view.

Page Data.
1519 web pages, interfacebus.com
0093 web pages, serialphy.com
0389 blog pages, interfacebus.blogspot.com [this blog]
0098 blog pages, serial-interface-buses.blogspot.com [Blog; new pages additions to interfacebus.com]
0025 blog pages, interfacebus.spaces.live.com [Blog, early version of "what's new"]
0012 web pages, Google Base [Holds a few articles, and pic files]
0002 web pages, Google Knol [Holds articles]
0075 web pages, interfacebus.com [Orphan pages, no longer used]
0116 web pages, interfacebus.com [wrong address pages to capture mis-spelled words]
2382 total pages residing on the internet

That's an increase of 554 web pages over the last nine months. Now keep in mind that some of these pages really don't bring in any traffic. The 166 pages that capture a mis-spelled web address really only work for a few months, as the link shows at the top of some forum. As the post with the mis-spelled address falls off the front page, less people will find it.

But the Blogs really contain more pages than shown. Blogs archive once a week, or month, or year. So every month the Blog automatically generates a new page for all pages in that month. Each year a Blog will auto generate 13 new pages; one per month, and one per year.

On the other hand, many pages have been enhanced or upgraded over the last year. It's not just about the number of pages, but how well those pages address your topic. Most new pages that get added are small and contain little data for the first few months because I know the search engine needs time to even find the new listing. So I up-load the new web address, add what data I have and get back to it when possible, knowing that I don't want to miss the search engine spider.

Chart Data
Unique visits are down over the last few months, but we my be in a recession? Visits, of course, track unique visits to some degree so the decline is expected. Again, page views track site visits, so page views should decline at least two times as fast as page views. A site visitor will not view 2 or three web pages if they never visit a site.

Google's Knol interface

I signed up for Knol from Google today. I had heard about it a few months ago, but at that time it was closed to most users. Knol is open to the general population now, and I signed up for it.

I assume Knol is Google's answer to Wikipedia, which is good but some what odd. Many search terms on Google return a listing from Wiki as the first listing on the results page. So why not come up with their own free social content collaboration 'encyclopedia' web portal. Of course the Wikipedia site gets a lot of bad press, so it could be that by next year the Knol site will see the same press, but it may depend on how they post those pages on their results page.

Any way I posted two articles today. Both need some help, but I posted them to get them out there. There should not be many people finding the pages at these stage, so it should not be a worry.

I posted one Knol on the Secure Digital card [flash memory] and one Knol on the declining RS-232 interface [re-posted from this blog]. However, neither posting shows up in a search yet? I did just see a link to verify my name, so I went ahead and did that, I got a call 10 seconds after hitting the submit button.

The attach picture depicts web visits to interfacebus from the Nerthlands so far this year.

Cuil Search Engine

I tried out the new search engine that was released today. A few ex-employees from Google came up with cuil, which seems to still need a little work.

Like we need another search engine any way. The attached graphic is a partial list of visits from robots and spiders for the month of July. Note the server bandwidth the search robots take up. Odd that the Cuil robot did not show up in the list this month.

www.interfacebus.com does show up in the list, but does that mean that the last time the site was spidered was a month ago? And a search for interfacebus only produces a link on the 6th page.

I saw a number of compliants about their search results, and I agree with all of them.
1. The site was off-line or did not respond.
2. The graphics shown with the results do not relate to the listing
--- My site came in with a GM logo, I don't display anyones Trade Marked Logo.
3. Duplicate site listing on the same page, multi-page links from the same site
--- Like the old Yahoo search results, with page after page of the same site in the results.
4. Results returned link farms, like key word stuffing working again.