Surprise in the Logs

Had a pleasant surprise tonight while I was looking at the statistics for sysmango.com.

About once a month, I take some time and go through the logs produced by the web server. I used to post the findings once a month, but I have not done that recently. There are sometimes interesting things buried in web logs.

This month, the interesting thing was a number of inbound links from an article at apple.com. The article is part of Apple's support for GameTape and Cyan releasing a version of Myst Online: Uru Live for Macs. On page 3 of the article, there is a quick introduction of In Cavern v Out of Cavern perspectives in Myst. Guess what site they picked as an example of In Cavern?

One of the statistics packages I run reports only 18 links from apple.com. Another reports only 9. I was only able to find 5 in the raw log, but that only represented 23 March to 24 March. Still it was interesting. Only greeninkforall.com has provided me with more inbound hits.

And here I thought nobody was even bothering to read that content.

I do have to wonder when they made the decision to use Sysmango.com's IC feed as their example. I haven't posted anything since 08 February.

Looking at the statistics from Google Analytics, I have had zero real traffic over the last couple of weeks. Just getting a casual mention on big website does not automatically mean your site is going to get killed by all the hits. Mostly because there have not been any.

I actually woke Natalie up to show her the page.

I am just really surprised. There are a lot of Myst websites. There are about thirty-two other Explorers registered via Uru Blogs as having In Cavern blogs or content. Honestly, there are other sites that are more active and better focused than what I have posted In Cavern, with authors that are a lot more involved in the happenings in the Cavern and the community.

Is it enough to just say that I am amazed?