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Suju confirmed as LKL’s top drawer

22-Jan-08
I've been trawling the 2007 website statistics for interesting trends. Search terms, popular pages and the like. I wish I had something earth-shattering to report, but the trends in terms of readers' interests stay pretty consistent. The thing I notice on a daily basis is that the same old (and I mean old) posts keep appearing on the top 10 list: anything to do with Super Junior (above) ((Incidentally, can anyone tell me why there are only 10 of them in that photo?)), Lee Hyori, Lee Eon-jeong and the rest will always be represented. But other, more value-added, posts often squeeze in as well -- for example the listing of Korean food stores in the UK. And every now and then ...
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September statistics

13-Oct-07
Popular posts and search terms Joining the list of popular search terms such as Super Junior and Rain is an unlikely new celebrity: disgraced curator and art lecturer Shin Jeong-ah. For a while last month my collection of links on her story even overtook anything to do with those 12 or 13 cute K-popsters. Even more: we all knew that Shin was an unlikely style icon. But there are people out there who see here as a sex symbol as well: there were not a few google searches for "Shin Jeong-ah naked". Internauts coming here looking for those sorts of photos will be disappointed. But I'm sure there are sites out there equipped with Photoshop which can satisfy all tastes... So here's the ...
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The great category explosion and other statistics

09-Sep-07
Number of article categories at the end of July: 91; Number of article categories at the end of August: 212 I've increased the number of categories to make it easier to find all my posts about particular individuals without using the sometimes unreliable search function. There's about 30 celebs, 20 film directors, 35 artists, 10 bands and 5 companies which have contributed to this explosion. I've been progressively adding these new tags / categories to existing posts, while preventing them from making my sidebar extend down to the floor by suppressing the category groups from the automatic category listing function in the sidebar. When I finally crack the dropdown menu challenges you'll be able to navigate direct to the celeb of your choice ...
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July statistics and site updates

09-Aug-07
Traffic Not much changes month on month now. Whatever set of statistics you look at, my growth period seems to have come to an end. Just as well given the problem reported last month regarding my using too much CPU. The site isn't taken offline quite so frequently any more, but maybe that's just because the trackback spammers and other nuisances who are abusing the CPU are all on vacation right now. Spammers Today I passed a significant milestone. 300,000 spam comments received in the 5 months that I've been with my current webhost. (And thankfully not one of them has ended up appearing on my site) As I mentioned last month, implementing the "only registered users can post comments" control cut my spam ...
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June statistics

06-Jul-07
After a couple of months of strong growth the statistics are now levelling off a bit. Maybe it's because I haven't done a post about Super Junior recently, maybe it's because my site is taken offline for a cooling off period when there's too much traffic and so people are giving up visiting; maybe it's because for the current spread of content this is the sustainable level of readers. Who knows? Popular posts and search terms Since installing the WordPress statistics gizmo at the end of May I've been checking the readership usage data every day because it's so user-friendly, and it's provided some interesting insights. While Celebrity BlogWatch continues to be a very popular page, my account of Rowan Pease's talk ...
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Statistics for May

05-Jun-07
Here's the usual monthly post on traffic volumes and other miscellaneous site updates. For the first time this month I've started including the statistics provided by Webalizer as well as those provided by Awstats. Webalizer, as I said a month or so ago, gives readership at least 20% higher than Awstats, and therefore those will be the ones I put in the prospectus when LKL launches its IPO. But towards the end of May I also installed a little WordPress statistics plugin. It's a dream. While the other statistics services tell me that some Naver forum or other is linking to me, the WordPress plugin gives me the exact URI. It's got much more user-friendly data as to what posts people ...
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April Statistics

08-May-07
Search terms The natural order of things was restored in April, with Lee Sabi back as easily the most popular search term. BoA's Nike contract is slipping down the rankings. Rain and Baek Ji-young are number two and three. In March the wildcard search term was the Monochrome Movement. This month it seems that a teacher somewhere has set his students to write an essay on the story of Blind Man Shim and his filial daughter - the pansori tale which features so prominently in Im Kwon-taek's Sopyonje. At one point this month the Shimchong-ga was even more popular than Lee Sabi. I hope that visitors went off and bought this book, which is well worth a read. Cheju-do's Love Land is still ...
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March statistics

10-Apr-07
The Move Another objective for the year ticked off: March saw the successful move from EasySpace to Bluehost. No thanks to EZsitemove.com. They came recommended by Bluehost as people who could help move your stuff over. I thought it would be a nice insurance policy to have some outside help in case anything went wrong, but it was a big mistake. If you want the full gory details, email me, but briefly stated, I did all the work and they did nothing, and they refused to answer my support calls. And they charged me the move fee even though they hadn't sorted out the final bug which I had reported to them. So if you're moving websites, don't use EZsitemove.com. Still, thus ...
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February statistics

04-Mar-07
As I suspected, I was peaking too soon in January. Three consecutive days of 1,000+ visits earlier in the month have now tailed off to a more sustainable 800-900 per day. What drives the visits I don't know, but I suspect that there may be an element of rubber-necking at internet roadkill: another three consecutive days of 1,000+ visits occurred again at the end of the month following my third visit from cRu$ty. I've discovered that there are sites which actually catalogue the successes of the hackers - not only is there the one that cRu$ty referred me to, but there's also zataz.com/defaced, where I featured along with cRu$ty's other victims. That site provided me with a bit of traffic, ...
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January statistics

04-Feb-07
It's the end of January and I've already hit some of my objectives for the year. From here the only way is down. So what happened in January? A link from the Marmot, firstly in a post following that Korea Times piece, and now I've made it into his blogroll. Visitor numbers were looking good following the interest over my LKL Awards post, occasionally hitting the high 900s per day. They then tailed off. Then suddenly, 1,024 visits on 24 January, coinciding with the first post by -- a new occasional contributor (another objective for the year), Peter Corbishley. What caused the visitor spike? Maybe it was Peter's account of the Korean Business Reception hosted by Red Ken; maybe it was a swarm of ...
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More 2006 statistics: theme parks and military thighs

10-Jan-07
First, some boring stuff December was a record month for advertising revenue: the princely sum of $11.17, making my life-to-date total $24.32. But if it stays at December's levels I'll be happy: that more than pays for webhosting. And something I get lots of, and wish I got less: my life-to-date spam comment count (as of the time of writing) is a staggering 34,000 Now this For those not hunting for celebrity news, or details of bookshops or restaurants in London, a very popular generator of traffic in 2006 was Chejudo Love Land theme park (100 visits to my site). The most work-safe image is above (credit: Matthias Streitz at Der Spiegl). There are links to less work-safe images in my original post here. Less ...
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A date with Rain? I’d rather have my hair done

07-Jan-07
"Sorry, I'm washing my hair that night" is the familiar put-down you get when the girl of your dreams doesn't fancy a date with you. But it's also true of LKL visitors. They're much more interested in finding the best Korean hairdressers in London, or reading about the techniques involved in a "Magic Straight" perm, than in perusing articles about the biggest male celebrity in Korea (and LKL Man of the Year 2006). I've been trawling the site statistics for the second half of 2006, and here are some of the shock facts: Lee Sabi continues to be the most popular Korean in the known universe (or at least on my site) In the battle of the Samsung babes, Hyolee is twice as ...
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November site statistics

02-Dec-06
Another brief round-up of site traffic, more for my own interest than anything else. Traffic The big news of November was the TV slot on YTN, a 24 hour news channel in Korea. I'm guessing that the news story started screening on 20 November, because that's when my number of visitors jumped from around 500 per day to 600 or 700 a day (see tables at the bottom of this post). After a slight tailing off towards the end of that week, the traffic picked up again when fmrvisitor, a member of UK fan's forum, posted a link to my site over at naver.com. Thanks again fmrvisitor. And I hope some of my new readers stick around. I was quite pleased that even ...
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September site statistics

07-Oct-06
A brief round-up of site traffic, more for my own interest than anything else Popular searches As predicted, all I have to do to improve my hit rate is to have a post on Lee Sabi. She's the top search phrase which results in people coming up with my site. 59 visits in September. However, in you aggregate the various combinations of "London" "Korean" and "Festival", that's the most popular search. Other celebs people are googling are Baek Ji-young (18 visits), and Hyolee. And maybe I'm missing a market opportunity as an adult introduction service: 5 visits to my site resulted from the query "Korean guys in London". Sorry to disappoint you. Maybe the title of this site could be construed as ...
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Site statistics

09-Aug-06
I thought I'd summarise some of my blog statistics for July. My main source of hits was, as ever, google. What would we do without it? Thanks, though, to Alice, Max, Jenny, Aidan and Jase for voluntarily providing links to me. The hit rate is as follows: Alice 33 Max 18 Jenny 5 Aidan 4 Jase 1 Of course, blatant self-publicity generates a fair amount of traffic. Posting at koreanfilm.org and putting your url under your signature is a fairly common and, I think, generally accepted way of generating traffic (25 hits last month). And then there's the amazing cross-platform blogging infrastructure, whereby if you link to an article in someone else's blog, that blog automatically finds out that you're linking to it and automatically links back ...
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Thanks for visiting

01-Jun-06
I've just been looking at the website traffic statistics for May. Average visits 110 per day; average hits 1,245 per day. Total number of unique visitors in the month: 1,922. Given that this site started only 10 weeks ago, more as a personal scrapbook than anything else, I'm grateful that people find it worth a look. Thanks very much for visiting. Over the coming weeks I'll be retiring the more colourful MS Publisher pages and transferring all the content to these more sober pages. But I'm gradually teaching myself xhtml, css, and soon php and MySQL, so there may be some presentational changes over time. I vowed I'd never get into all that stuff, but it's not too painful. Anyway, ...
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