My Blog: A Status Report

My Mall & News keeps surging in popularity. I'm now getting more than 2,000 hits each day, with a maximum of 968 per hour.

As of today, the year to date counts are as follows:

Pages 163986
Files 250693
Hits 381333

Here are some definitions:

Files: The number of files that have been requested (downloaded) from your site during the report period. Web sites contain a collection of computer files, which are sent by a remote computer (Web server) to the client (Web browser) as the client requests them. Files (the outgoing response to a request) include all viable Web file formats, such as HTML files (.html), graphics files(.gif, .jpg or .png), Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf), Macromedia Flash files(.swf), Microsoft Word files (.doc) ASP files (.asp), etc. The relationship between hits and files can be thought of as incoming requests and outgoing responses.

Hits: The total number of requests that were made to the site during thereport period. Any request made to the Web server is logged as a hit. The request can be for files, such as an HTML page, graphic image, audio file or CGI script, or for queries made by search engine spiders.

Pages (Also called Page Views): The number of pages viewed during thereport period. Hypertext mark-up files (.html or .htm) and files that generate HTMLdocuments (for example, .asp .cgi). are considered pages, with thedefinition of a page varying by server. BizLand's servers define as apage any file with one of the following extensions: ( * represents any character)Some people consider the pages total to be the number of pure hits. Inother words, it is a truer indication of the traffic your site receives.

Using the following site, my website grade is as follows:

http://www.websitegrader.com/

WebSite Grade For www.mymallandnews.com : 71/100 (December 14, 2007)A website grade of 71 for www.mymallandnews.com means that of thethousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool,our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 71% ofthem in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses aproprietary blend of over a dozen different variables, including searchengine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance,and others. The Google page rank is three.

The alternative website name has a grade of 86 percent and a page rank of 4.

WebSite Grade For mymallandnews.bizland.com : 86/100 (December 14, 2007)A website grade of 86 for mymallandnews.bizland.com means that of the thousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool,our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 86% ofthem in terms of its marketing effectiveness.

The phrase "my mall" consistently is number on in Google.Search

The bottom line is that My Mall & News is clearly an increasingly valuable site.

So what is the future of My Mall & News? I plan to continue doing what I like doing, bloggings about whatever interests or alarms me. However, on the about page, I'm planning to build separate page links to categories of information for your reading pleasure.

These are as follows:

Wellness: Health & Medicine
The Cattery: All About Cats
Plato's Sandbox: Education, Religion, Ideas
Crooks & Liars: Politics, Elections, Scandals
The Cutting Edge: Computers, Technology, Science

So there you have it. A slice of my often strange but seldom boring world.