Just in time for my fourth anniversary (with eight days to spare, yet), I’ve compiled the official 1999 Planet SOMA statistics, giving an exciting (OK, maybe not exciting) look at which pages are most popular, where links are coming from, etc. This front page, for example, was accessed over 128,000 times.
It’s no big surprise that the San Francisco front page is number one, with 22,333 accesses. It is a bit odd that my sex club page, which hasn’t been updated since I stopped going to sex clubs about three years ago, came in fifth. Anyway, the top ten is follows:
- San Francisco (22,333 hits)
- SF Bars (11,260 hits)
- Loftomania (10,484 hits)
- Folsom Street in the 1970s (10,418 hits)
- SF Sex Clubs (10,136 hits)
- Links (9,865 hits)
- Cruising Planet SOMA (8,230 hits)
- About Yer Humble Host (7,840 hits)
- SF Baths in the 1970s (6,435 hits)
The strong showing in the 1970s section is largely due to a link on Suck.com a few weeks back (which actually shut down the site for a few hours), although the front page probably would have been in the top ten anyway. The loft boom is a result of this section’s being featured in a couple of Yahoo Full Coverage sections.
Yahoo was by far my largest traffic generator as a whole, along with several other search engines and “that interview” in Nightcharm.
Of course, all this can distract you from the fact that I still don’t have anything particularly exciting to write about. This weekend I brought in the New Year, solidified my good luck with black-eyed peas and collard greens, and drove upto Sacramento on Sunday (through the delta on Highway 160) just to get out of the house. And I worked.
It rained today. That was nice. And I had some really good pork chops for dinner. I almost threw a computer through a plate glass window at my evil and hateful part-time job today, which would have made an interesting story had I actually done it. And I won free stuff at the vending machine twice. But that’s about it.
Big damn deal, huh?