What's in the access logs
My web provided phpwebhosting, provides out of the box usage for webalizer, a simple statistics package. They also provide some simple analog statistics, including the most recent access logs. Sometimes I check the logs, just to see what's up, or to see if there are any site problems. Earlier this month, I put out my annual newsletter to friends and family. I took a chance on it, using larger images in a slide show format, with no preloads -- as preloads would delay the entire page coming up. The access logs showed two things -- 1) the experiment didn't work quite as planned, as it indicated clearly that the amount of show for each slide wasn't always long enough for it to display, and 2) that people like looking at Bruce Springsteen, even if it's only in a picture with me. The Springsteen picture got substantially more traffic than any other. In a normal day I might get 30mb of traffic; in the first day after I sent out the newsletter, it was over 400mb. The ...