1. 01 April 2007

    Web usage

    About 6 months ago now I whipped up bowsah, a cute little app to scrape my web browser’s history file into a database and a surrounding rails app to munge the data.

    So far it’s come in handy a few times for me searching for something I knew I’d seen on the web but couldn’t find, but mostly serves to measure how much time I actually spend on the internet. Here’s the past 24 weeks, equal to 164 days or ~5.5 months.

    A few stats:

    • First page counted: 2006-10-20, 164 days ago
    • Page visits counted: 43119
    • Average 262 pages/day
    • Sites counted: 3521
    • 3 biggest days (pages/day): 557 (2006-12-19), 556 (2006-12-10), 548 (2006-10-22)

    Is this too much? It may well be – but I don’t know. I’ve always used the computer lots, whether it was playing games when I was younger or reading lots of shit on the internet nowadays. I’m glad that I don’t spend all day watching TV or playing World of Warcraft, but could probably stand to see the honest-to-god light of day a bit more often or maybe even spend more time with actual people…

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