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WEB SITE ACCESS STATUS REPORTS

March 12 1999

Just one week after being listed on Yahoo!, my Jack Daniels Webcam managed to make USA Today's Hot Site list!  The additional traffic has been a terrific novelty, with almost 1000 hits to the Webcam in just one day and a decent amount of follow-through.   The following is really just highlights and leaves out a LOT.  With this popularity there's not enough time to sift through the logs thoroughly.

Ignoring the people who look at one page and leave in horror, visitors over the last couple of weeks have included Boeing, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc, Monsanto, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, Gulf Engineers and Consultants, NASA's Integrated Engineering Systems department at Marshall Space Flight Center, Siemens AG, GeoKon (geotechnical instrumentation), Dallas Semiconductor, Lexmark, Systems Management Arts, Ames Laboratory (Dept of Energy, Iowa), United Technologies Automotive, Warner Bros., Lane Furniture, Visio Corporation, Olympus, Mosaic Communications, Dell Computers, National Computerization Agency at the Korea Network Information Center, Astra Pharmaceuticals, British Petroleum, Weyerhaeuser Corporate Communications, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), IE&E Automotive, Signature Media, Software Spectrum, Avenor Newsprint (France), Eastman Kodak, Hewlett Packard, Herman Miller (office furniture), the U.S. Treasury, Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power (who showed particular interest in our full line of butt plugs), Saper Media Group, Data Stream Systems, Time-Warner Cable, Summit Information Systems, Piedmont Natural Gas, Elgin DDB, DTI Technology, Trupart Manufacturing, Informix, Best Buy, Banco Popular, IBM Microelectronics, Unilever Corporation, Turner Entertainment, Samsung, Cambridgeshire County Council (UK), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Fruit of the Loom, Vermont Electric Power Company, Minnesota Dept of Administration, Holiday Tree Farm, Tandy Corporation, Microsoft, Ernst and Young, Cinergy, Shell Oil UK, Vstream, Beijing Dept of Computer Communications, Symbios/LSI Logic, Bay Area Regional Research Network, Motorola, MCI Mail, Adobe Systems, Bolder Design Labs, Delta Airlines, NCR, Lexis-Nexis, Sony, Mercy Health Systems, Rabo Bank (London), U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Census, Housing and Urban Development, Advanced Micro Devices, Camcare Health Systems, General Electric, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, DHL Worldwide Express, Sola Optical USA, SSG Inc. (aerospace optical instruments), the Mayo Clinic (!), Lockheed-Martin, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and Cisco, and the Canadian Space Agency.

The people at Coe College, Louisiana State and Tulane U, Texas A&M, Southeast Missouri U, Western Illinois, the Physics Lab at Yale,  Brown U in Providence, Brandeis University, Washington U of St. Louis, New York University, the Alabama Supercomputer Authority, College Militaire Royal de St-Jean, Mills College, University of the Pacific, Rhodes, Xavier U, INTI College (Malaysia), and the Hong Kong Institute of Education came in and looked around, to name just a few.

The U.S. Military showed increased interest in cutting-edge buttplug technology and categorically bizarre content as well, although some visitors were lured in by USA Today's JD Cam link.  Folks who did browse our plugs included the US NAVY's Naval Research Laboratory, Barksdale Air Force Base, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, Nellis AFB, Luke AFB, Randolph AFB, Brooks AFB, Defense Information Systems Agency, Naval Reserve Information Systems Office, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Beale AFB, Naval Oceans Systems Center, Naval Medical Information Center, Coastal Systems Station, Naval Reserve, Army Directors of Information Management at Ft Leavenworth, the PENTAGON, Naval Air Warfare Center, U.S. Coast Guard, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Naval Communications Area Master Station, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command, and a NAVY ship!   I could tell you which but I may have to kill you.

Oh yeah, I'm expecting a visit from several black Chevy Suburbans any moment now.

Unique international visits include the Arab Emirates, who universally are looking strictly for sex-related items, and who have outnumbered visitors from the UK and Canada combined!  We've also counted visits from all the usual countries plus Israel, Singapore, Lebanon, Croatia, Slovak Republic, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Hungary, Egypt, Namibia, Uruguay, Brunei Darussalam, Peru, Oman, Trinidad/Tobago, Iceland, Guatemala, Kenya, Faroe Isles, Russia and the Ukraine (to name but a few).

Interesting search terms this time around include "humoungus butt plug" from an AOL user, "anal dilation equipment" from a Netcom user, and "electro sex" from someone right in my own neighborhood!  From the "have your cake and eat it too" department is "vibrating penis pump", from someone in Newport News.  "Slicing penis in half" came from a cable modem user on @ Home, and "steel buttplugs rectal" from a visitor in Idaho.  Finally the head scratcher - "wooden buttplugs".  Ouch!

March 5 1999

This week started our relatively un-interesting, but finally getting listed on Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) has done amazing things for site traffic here.  This site is indexed under both ...Fun/Bizarre (to the home page) and ...Fun/Sex (direct to the Rectaltronics catalog).  Referrals from both categories have been roughly equal.

I haven't had the time to do blow-by-blow visitor reports this week due to the increase traffic and personal obligations, but I've easily identified trends of people in sexually repressed countries showing a remarkable interest in sex in general.  I'll analyze this further in a few days.

February 26 1999

The folks at Sony AU started off the week with an thorough look around, followed by Ericsson of Sweden, Applied Business Computers, Mitsubishi Finance International of London, K/P Graphics Corp, MetroNetworks, IBT Multimedia (Netherlands), MGC Communications, E-Soft, Bay Networks, Squeep (don't ask), Fuelman / GasCard, John Hancock, Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture, and the Netherlands Institute of Public Health.  One of the more notable return visitors was Volvo.

Brief interludes included the Italian Ministry of Justice (looking for "spycam" - haha), European Commission Joint Research Center, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, the City of San Diego, the U.S. Coast Guard (looking for "conspiracy theories"!), the law firm of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Hydrochem Industrial Services, the National Civil Engineering Labs of Portugal (looking for pirated PalmPilot software, no less), Reflectone (makers of military and commercial aviation simulators and trainers, looking for John Valby material), and the International Bible Society (looking for "BOFA", whatever that is).

Colleges are some of my most frequent visitors, with the more unique hits including University of Versailles.  Also California Institute of Technology, St. Claire and Kingston in Ontario Canada, Kiski Prep in PA, Clemson U, and U of Lincoln Nebraska.

According to Webtrends, the most popular page is still the Rectaltronics catalog.   My home page is a close second with the Frontpage... and Assholes... pages in third and fourth place!  AOL users account for the single largest user base, representing over 10% of the web site's total activity.  Internet Explorer users are now outnumbering Netscape, no doubt due to the popularity of AOL.  Of the Netscape users, about two thirds are using the latest major release.  WebTV has shown a frightening surge in popularity this past week.

Most unusual international visit this week was from Tieto Konts Financial Systems in Latvia!  The frightening part is their browser ID string... "Mozilla/4+(CP/M;+8-bit)".  Visits from Estonia, Luxemborg and Ireland were also noticed.

Clever search term of the week looks like "fucking the dead", from an unidentified web surfer at the University of Cincinatti.  This week, the phrase "conspiracy theories" has edged out "buttplugs" and "bizarre" for most popular search term.

February 19 1999

Reliable local logging has been quite an education.  I've written a log translator to supplement where WebTrends falls short.  And even though this week the web server has spent about 48 hours being down, the access has been amazing.  With all pages being tracked, I can see much more clearly the results of search engine indexing too.   Many hits to the site never even go near the main page, and the actual search terms that lead people to parts of the web site are of a much wider variety than I ever knew.   Regardless, "buttplug" and "bizarre" are still the two most popular terms.

This week for example, Cambridge University Press, Barnes & Noble, Morgan & Finnegan LLC, and DVI Communications all found their way directly to the new Assholes At The Wheel page.  The Frontpage Tips 'n Tricks page has also been getting tremendous referral traffic from many search engines, but still not quite as much as the Rectaltronics Catalog.

Alexa Internet, Credit Lyonnais Rouse, JavaNet, Imation, Fujitsu Australia, Cole & Weber Advertising, Lucent Technology, the CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY, Sunoco, Eli Lilly, Credit Agricole Indosuez, Texas Instruments, Alcoa Aluminum, Merril Lynch, Bentley Engineering, Cable & Wireless UK, Deutsche Telekom, Digital Equipment Corporation, Montana Territories Real Estate, MarkWatch (intellectual property cops!), Turner Entertainment, Intel, IBM Microelectronics, Volvo, Amerada Hess Corporation, Grey Advertising, Sells Printing, Texaco, Florence County Sheriff's Office (Effingham, South Carolina), and the Canada Trust Finance Department have all spent some time in the web site and some much more than others!

Nokia, Lockheed Martin, and Nasa's Jet Propulsion Labs are among the folks who stopped in obviously looking for something else and left just as quickly.

Netcom and AOL users are highly represented in this week's logs, and overall traffic to the site is averaging 170 page views per day.  Virginia is the most highly represented state in the US for visitors to the site.

Rectaltronics has educated the students at University of Technology in Sydney, U of Winnipeg, U of Texas, Ohio State, Harvard, Alaska U, Alberta U, Vermont U, Virginia U, Butler U (Indiana), Minnesota U, Albany, and the Ohio K12, and some of the notable international visits have included Austria and Greece among the usual.

Interesting search term of the week is "Microsoft sucks crap" (twice from two different people!).  Meanwhile, someone looking for "female superiority" ended up on the most anti-feminist page on my web site!  Lotsa laffs.  See /houserules.htm.

February 12 1999

In spite of more unpredictable page counter behaviour, I've tracked visits to the Rectaltronics catalog from Graybar Electrical Products, Secure Computing Corporation, Philips Electronics, Varco (oil drilling rigs, equipment and systems), Neuberger-Berman Investments, Eli-Lilly Healthcare, Trident Data Systems, Berkeley Networks and Bay Networks, SkyCache, DNA Enterprises, Holmes- Murphy Insurance, Cleveland Live, and General Media Publishing.  Brazil, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand and Italy complement the strong showing of domestic dial-up visitors this week.

Oregon State and the Missouri-Rolla U of Engineering and Science have visited the site thoroughly and Carleton U has even put a link on their intranet!

IE4 is the single most frequently used browser but still doesn't match the number of various Netscape users of various versions.  Interesting search term of the week is "have you seen where I put...".  I'm sure there was more but the log cut it off.  This must be the same fellow that calls telephone information to find out where he left his wallet.  There's lots of different content on this site but the #1 search term is "buttplug" by a huge margin.

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February 5 1999

Problems with the access logs (provided by Pagecount) started off the week, but some info was filled in by an alternate source, TheCounter.  The web site is still making an impression on schools and colleges this week with visitors from U of Southern California, Arizona State, U of Hawaii, Oberlin College of the Arts (Ohio), Carleton College in Minnesota, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, U's of Kansas, Wisconson, Idaho, and Chicago, as well as U of Alberta.

New Zealand is still at the top of our internation visitors list, with the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealend France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Malaysia, and Australia.

Folks at Digital Equipment Corporation glanced through the Rectaltronics catalogue, as well as people at AMD, AT&T, and Lucent.  J.C. Penney stopped into the site but didn't stay long.  The Farm Service Agency at the United States Department of Agriculture checked in too.  Other visitors include Videotron Communications, PostNet Information Exchange, and American Power Conversion.

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January 29 1999

Exciting international visitors this week include New Zealand, South Africa, and believe it or not, the United Arab Emirates!  Significant business visitors showed an inclination toward heavy industry and included Koch Industries (yeah Wichita!!!), General Electric, John Deere, and Ford.  We've also been visited by the Macon (Georgia) Telegraph, Bank of Western Australia, Tera Computer Company (parallel tasking supercomputers), Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the United States Census Bureau.  Victorial Real - a UK based digital media production outfit - has been enjoying the site thoroughly, with hits registered from at least ten different machines in their organization.

The students of Jefferson County Public Schools in Birmingham, Alabama are getting quite an education this week, as are the folks at Brighton U in the UK, Massey U in New Zealand, Ghent University in Belgium, the psych department at University of Manitoba, U of Alberta, U of Victoria, U of Toronto, and University College of Cariboo in Canada, Ohio State U, Georgetown University, Rice University in Houston, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at good ol' Harvard U.  But none of these can hold a candle to the visit from the Field Robotics Institue at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania.  Better still, the visiting hostname from CMU leads me to believe that the visitor was none other than the award winning FRI founder Professor William "Red" Whittaker himself.

This week's interesting trend is the over-representation of dial-up users going directly to the Rectaltronics catalog.  We're doing well with tyros overall, with most people using at least 16-bit color and a surprising number of folks using display geometry of 1024x768 or higher.  In the Beta department: With IE4 barely stable as it is, Internet Explorer 5.x is showing up in the logs now.  And from the Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics department: Mac, UNIX, Win98 and Win3x usage is roughly equal.

Interesting hostname of the week happens to be a Linux box, "colombian-necktie.grey17.org", showing that the folks at MIT do have a sense of humour, however strange.

Interesting search term of the week is from someone landing here from the Metabase search site www.go2net.com and using the phrase "plug in her butt".

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January 22 1999

The week of Martin Luther King Day seems off to a quiet start with lots of dial-up business as well as visits from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba Electronics Germany, Quantum Corporation (yes, that Quantum), National Rural Electric (in Virginia), Holiday Autos international car rental, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Hamburg Technical University (Germany), College of St Mark & St John (Plymouth, England), Curtis Circulation (publishing), and CIBC Wood Gundy (Canadian Financial Research).

I'm now tracking direct hits to the Rectaltronics products page as well as the default page to rectaltronics.com, and I'm tracking referer info so I can see how people are getting here.  What is interesting and wonderful is that there is actually more traffic (as much as five times more) going directly to the Rectaltronics Catalogue than to my home page.  I'm also finding that I'm getting linked from more just the few sites that I turned up via an AltaVista link search, and that many of my page hits are from links being e-mail'd among various people.  There's also lots of "word of mouth" direct hits.  I'm so glad I put in the new counter!  The LookSmart.com portal apparently has this site well-indexed, with my site's pages appearing in the first ten hits searching for "buttplug".  WebCrawler brings the site up quickly under "bizarre".  Now here's the really cool part: HotBot has my site as the #2 result if you search for "free portals"!  Gotta love those guys.

I've also started to track a few anonymous IP addresses as I have time.  Some of these include the (South) Dakota Telecom Group, Carleton Board of Ed, internal addresses at AT&T, and the National Research Corporation.

Users with Windows98 and/or with cable modem services are becoming noticably more prominent in the logs.  The power of decent software bundling is obvious, with Netscape use among Windows98 users being almost nil.  Netscape still appears to own the Windows95, WindowsNT, Mac and UNIX markets.  WebTV seems to be well represented in the crowd aiming straight for the Rectaltronics Catalog.

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January 15 1999

This has been a very good week for Rectaltronics' international business, with visits from Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Israel.  We've been visited by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Laval University of Quebec, ESSI (l'Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques - part of University of Nice, École des Mines de Paris), the San Bernardino County K-12 school system (er, uh, never mind), the law offices of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Fisher-Rosemount (process controls) Harrison and Star (healthcare advertising), National Reseach (healthcare research), Moody's Investors Service, Anixter (wire and cabling), Relational Data Systems, St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, and Shell Oil U.S.  Complementing last week's visit by Bristol-Myers Squibb is a visit this week from Procter & Gamble.  Coincidence?  I wonder.

Normally, I don't pay much attention to visitors through dial-up ISP's but topping off the list of interesting ISP visitors this week is Integrity Online - a church based internet service provider that prides itself on blocking "objectionable sites" from its users.  The fox is guarding the hen house...

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January 8 1999

Recent visitors to Rectaltronics.com have included Autodesk (of AutoCAD and 3D-Studio fame), Delta Airlines (researching the Nav-Bird, perhaps?), Microsoft AND WebTV (no shit! I wonder which plug Bill Gates uses...), AOL, Mustang Software (would you believe Qmodem is STILL alive?), Composite Technology Development Inc. (hi-tech ceramics, resins and adhesives), Apple Computers, Bristol-Myers Squibb (maker of "FemTone Vaginal Weights", I kid you not, see http://www.femtone.com), Telia Telcomm of Sweden, Reltec Corp (networking), and the Texas Medical Center. That of course is in addition to the countless hits from individual dial-up internet users.

A little research indicates that I may owe some of my recent popularity to AOL's NetFind and Excite!, whose search engine puts pages from Rectaltronics.com in the top 10 results when searching for "bizarre" and the top 30 when searching for "buttplug". That also explains the frequent visits from "spider-xxxxx.proxy.aol.com".

Interesting statistics: The browser of choice is still Netscape by a comfy margin. Netscape use is an even mix of version 3 and version 4, and one person this week used version 2. One brave Mindspring user was surfing with Netscape 4 on Windows 3.1. OS-wise, Microsoft surfed in using NT but WebTV came in with an operating system that came up as "unidentified" (as did Delta). Mac use appears to be on the rise (due to the I-Mac no doubt) but still very small. The folks at U of Cincinatti are using LINUX now. Afternoon and mid-late evening usage seems to be typical with a peak at 5PM. Weekday usage beats weekends by about 20%. Hit rates are varying wildly, as much as 50 on a few days and as few as 3 this past Tuesday, January 5th.

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