First up, some of you may have noticed that I changed the Referral Javascript.
For the past couple of weeks I've been using this popular script from Stephen Downes, but I've grown dissatisfied with it for three reasons.
- First, it only shows backward links for 24-hours, there is no permanent storage mechanism.
- Second, each link requires a minimum of 2 hits; I still want to know where everyone comes from.
- Third, the new script says exactly what someone typed into a search engine or what embedded page someone came from in order to land on my blog - something the old one couldn't.
I was at Richard Giles' blog and came upon his referral list once more and followed the link to the script author.
I followed the easy-to-understand 'installation' instructions (just a matter of copy/paste) and presto, it worked.
I'll let you know if it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
A couple of days ago I mentioned various browsers including Opera. Well truth be told, I tried the latest version (7.10) and have only one nagging gripe -- it doesn't render the 4 HTML tag-creators in Movable Type entries (the Bold, Italics, Underline and URL). Additionally, it doesn't crash or hang up on me, it doesn't suck up oodles of system resources for no apparent reason and all of the browser windows are tabbed, just like DeadAIM; so surfing is speedy and fun once again (yes, I know Mozilla also has that feature but it's too bloated still and hangs up on my system).
I'm also eyeing Galeon and Phoenix once more (hey, my Sábado Gigante comment held true, they're having to rename it once more). And no, I haven't discounted Konqueror entirely yet (just the bathwater part).
Posted by Tim at April 19, 2003 03:34 AM | TrackBack