My Angelfire site visitor counter hit 10,000 and I'm kind of shocked

I logged in to check on my old Sailor Moon fanpage for the first time in maybe a decade. The little free counter at the bottom, the one with the tiny pixel numbers, said 10,342 visits. I made that site in 1998 with a tiled star background and a bunch of midi files. I figured maybe a few hundred people ever saw it, mostly friends from school. Seeing that number made me realize how many random people must have found it through a webring or a search on AltaVista. It's weird to think my dumb teen project had that kind of reach. Did anyone else's old Geocities or Tripod page get way more traffic than you ever expected?

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ryan_stone2d ago

That's just the web crawlers, not actual people.

mary8362d ago

Been there, and it can really mess with your analytics. I set up a simple filter in my site's dashboard to block known bot traffic. It won't catch everything, but it helps clean up the data so you can see real visitor behavior. You have to check it every so often and add new bad IP addresses as they pop up. It's a bit of upkeep, but worth it for accurate numbers.