Matthew Botos

The site statistics so far for this month reveal some interesting facts:

• The biggest external referrers by far are Google image search and MySpace
• “Flowers” has managed to sneak into the list of popular search terms, which is mostly car audio related
• IE and Netscape still dominate the browser pie, but Firefox and Safari are well represented
• Suprisingly, photos from past years are more popular than the recent ones
• Godzilla is still really popular, as is the entire Sandia section

I’ve noticed a lot of hits from MySpace the last several months, and finally wrote a script to pull out those referrers and see what was being linked. I was mildly flattered to find that several of my scenic photos were being used as backgrounds, and some of the more odd ones people found amusing enough to stand alone as comments.

However, not a one credited myself or this site as the source, and all of them hotlinked the images. Also, since I use the logs to figure out which of my photos are most popular, this greatly skews the results. (Hence why the Hot Truck, refried beans, and Flavor Flav have been rocking the rankings.) What really irritated me, though, was how ugly every single one of these pages was! They almost make Geocities look good! So in a nod to photographers and graphic designers everywhere, I’ve blocked hotlinking.