Useless Statistics (Quarter Life Crisis)

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I looked at our web site’s access statistics today. While I still can’t extract any non-trivial information from them. But a few things were notable:

Why do those tools list ‘hourly usage’?
So we can learn that the fewest hits are between 7 and 9 CEST? Or that there are peaks around 14 and 18 (European lunch break? end of work?) and 1 at night?
Thursdays and Sunday are the slowest days.
There are many many hits to mt-comments.cgi. Are those people trying to spam? Or search engines? Or actually people subscribing to my comment feeds?
There are also quite a few hits to robots.txt? Where do all those robots come from?
Most of our hits come from Google
Most of our hits come from NetNewsWire, the most frequent browser user agent is MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1.
This is followed by Safari.
The Safari stats are unnecessarily split up because Safari puts the active language into its version string.
Safari exists in ‘en’ and ‘en-us’ variants for the same version number. How does it decide which one to use. I had the impression that System Preferences only list English as an option.
And there has also been a visitor using Lynx.
These very pages are eating quite a bit of our bandwidth quota.
The feed seems quite popular. Together with the previous point, this makes the ‘304 Not modified’ a very good thing.

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