After upgrading the site I decided to spend a little time actually tracking visitors to the site, which I have not really done in the past. So I signed up for Google Analytics installed the small blob of JS code and let it go.

The amount of data Google Analytics let’s you track in an easy way is pretty amazing. You can see entrance and exit pages, which links on a page were clicked on and a whole host of other things. It’s a huge step up from the standard Webalizer I used to use, which basically just shows how many visitors you have.

Anyway, I was actually quite surprised how many people visit the site (apart from me debugging ) and just wanted say thanks for coming and I will try to post some more useful stuff soon.

I was also quite interested how many hits very old posts were getting. A lot of hits were going to “node/36″ which is a 404 now and linked to an old wallpaper I posted while playing around with Photoshop. It showed me how important old content can be when moving a site. If nothing else it can act as a gateway to get people into the rest of the site.

Just because I forgot about something I did a few years ago does not mean Google forgot about it. I just wish all the CMS systems will settle on a standard URL format so it would be easier to migrate to new systems and map old URLs onto you new system.