Here are some statistics about me and my site for the month of June.

• 299 visitors to nullvariable.com
• 45 visitors to the blog. (This is mostly do to changing the way I track visitors, and using two seperate reports to do so.)
• Most popular post: Enhancing PHP speeds (Drupal and Wordpress too)
• Feedburner says I have 25 subscribers on average. If you’re one of these, stop by and check out the new design
• Top searches:
  • site:blog.nullvariable.com
  • tower defense
  • php preg_replace
  • pcntl_fork
  • link:blog.nullvariable.com
  • drupal tinymce
• Top sites
  • www.php.net
  • drupal.org
  • en.wikipedia.org
  • ubuntuforums.org
  • httpd.apache.org
• Total recorded searches: 809
• Thursday wins with the highest average searches per day
• Most searches per hour average, 9pm and 2am
• Personal favorites discovered via search:
  • Sugarplum — spam poison
  • The Pareto Principle (also the 80/20 rule)
• Google Reader stats:
  • Subscriptions: 103
  • Items read: 344
  • Sites with highest percentage of read items: xkcd.com and Matt Cutts
  • Highest items per day: FriendFeed
  • Hour most items are read: Midnight
  • Day of the week most are read: Monday and Tuesday

Some interesting stats to say for sure . We’ll have to see how the blog and main site fair this month with the change in statistical tracking. Also interesting to see where I waste time on RSS feeds too much!

This is a post from the Nullvariable Web Consulting Blog.

June in review

Third-party ads now available on the Google content network:

“Greetings from Google!

We’re happy to announce that the Google content network now
accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors.
During this initial release, only ads in English are eligible,
although we look forward to offering more options in the future.

By accepting third-party ads, we can attract a greater variety of
advertising on the Google content network, which we believe will
result over time in increased revenue for publishers and more
relevant advertising for end users.

If you’re currently opted in to image ads, you’re already able to
receive third-party ads. If not, you can enable image ads to start
receiving third-party ads immediately. (Learn how to enable image
ads at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9741.)

If you choose to allow third-party ads on your site, please update
your privacy policy to inform your visitors that third-party
vendors may serve ads on your site. Please also provide links to
these vendor websites and inform your users that they may opt out
of cookies (if the vendor offers this capability). For more
information about updating your policies, visit
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94150.

You’ll continue to have full control over which ads appear on your
site with tools like competitive ad filtering and the Ad Review
Center. Also, only advertisers with whom we have proven
relationships and who’ve clearly demonstrated commitments to our
quality standards may participate in this program. Our policies
governing ad content and formatting remain unchanged.

To learn more about third-party ads, please visit our blog post at
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-third-party-ads-on-google.html
and our FAQ at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14535.
If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact us at
adsense-support@google.com.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043″

This is a post from the Nullvariable Web Consulting Blog.

Third-party ads now available on the Google content network

If hackers don’t get you, maybe Google will | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com: “All the hacked files were gone. Google had spidered the site after that but they still had the links in their search results.

So the Sri Lankan looking for Tamil porn videos was coming to StorageMojo for a non-existant page and getting a “System Error” message – instead of a low overhead static 404 page. And that was killing the virtual server’s performance.

After a few hours the Google referral traffic declined and my hosting company put StorageMojo back up – now serving up an StorageMojo page from cache that says “No articles found.” Much lighter.”

This is a post from the Nullvariable Web Consulting Blog.

If hackers don’t get you, maybe Google will