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Having achieved the first twenty million “easy points” in the Alexa rankings race, May was a little slower paced with only an incredible 19466 “points”.

(This article continues our monthly reports on the progress of kovtr on the web. The series started with last months report. )

Our monthly rating spent the entire month pegging up and down between 327,000 and 440,000 and our three monthly rose from 961,627 to 533,227.

Of course the Spetnatz commando incident early in the month didn’t help and put me off my groove. I had to batten down the hatches, move KOVTR, double the back-ups and institute multiple blog sites in case the attacks became better executed.

That not withstanding, it is something of an achievement to be ranked as the worlds 386,683rd most popular website. (Not much of an achievement, but to be fair, the KOVTR blog started on March 29th 2010.)

(Ignore the spider count above, I turned spiders off for a few days until I could get a handle on incursion methods by badly behaving spiders that ignored ‘robots.txt’. Surprise surprise, hackers don’t honour robot.txt no access instructions.)

Unfortunately this means that all those pages that you thought were not cached somewhere you would rather they weren’t, probably in fact are.

Considering we worked out last year that there are approximately 37 internet users for every web site, (of course it’s changed by now, but it takes too long to do redo the numbers, sorry) we think we are doing okay.

Our unique ip’s didn’t double (note RSS feeds did), but we do seem to be engaging users for longer as they seem to be reading 145% more than they did last month.

At the speed we are traveling, (providing the black hats stay away…) our estimate is that we should be overtaking Google in the number one
slot in about three hundred and forty-seven years time.

Seriously? The competition from other Internet content at this level is quite serious. There appear to be a lot one author blog sites out there….. (I wonder if that says something about our society.)

Last year I calculated that one needs 10-25 new articles per day to enjoy a smooth growth curve. With KOVTR only having a solitary author, I
need to differentiate the content by having a high level of alternative references available.

This appears to provide KOVTR with a niche of readers that are different to Hulu, Youtube, Myspace or Facebook users.

The spike in May was probably the whitehats and blackhats each checking our what I had to say about them and is not a normal traffic pattern
so should be disregarded. I consider that my average time on site is about 25 minutes and daily pageviews per user should be only about 15.

In my opinion (and I’m not an SEO), one of the principle sources of new readership comes from well annotated graphs and accurately labeled tables. (In this regard I’m a bit lackadaisical and occasionally forget to properly reference graphics and graphs.) However, interest from search engines is static with bounce decreasing

Which I think means that my Tag references are growing more accurate.

The increased readership could be due to the laid back non-technical nature or it could just be the humour I provide readers in my attempts to debunk the content creation industries excuses for tampering with international relations and politics.

Either way, as the readership is not coming from search engines, it must be coming from, peer reference (links).

My Summary of the KOVTR blog over the last thirty days.

• Two lost days.

• Five days spent anti-Hacking Proofing and redundancy planning

• Grammar, style and spelling – atrocious (as usual)

• Content – it’s a Blog…. please go to the library and do serious research if this is the subject of a thesis.

• Logical construct = (same as last month) illogical requiring quantum thought process from the reader.

• 22 Posts of which 7 have Graphs

• 13 have pictures

• 10 contain tables

• Average time to prepare and publish an article – 4 hours.

• Average article length: 1381 words (+graphs, pictures and tables)

Table of Articles – most recent to oldest order.

Article	Words	Graphs	Pictures	Table
The difference between Anecdotal and Empirical.	1273	4	1	1
So how hard is it to do business in Australia?	1471		1	1
The Myth and Fallacy of Intellectual Property and a Couple of Numbers	2901		1	2
CPI Versus Communism – Or – Importers (Capitalists) margins are getting tighter.	1493	3
Viruses, Hackers, The White Hats The Black Hats and the Grey Hats.	1346	1	6
Inept Hackers Still Sneaking Around…..	360		1	1
The Stereo is Dead Long Live the Game Console	467		4
The Music Industry, The Horrible ISP’s and the Unpaid Music Transit Bill	1389	2	2	1
Google Doesn’t Really Want to Know.	212
The Art of DoubleThink (1984) – is not Restricted to Fantasy SCi-FI Novels.	1248			4
Summary of our progress in disproving the claims of the Tera Report & US Gov Agrees	1080
The Week that Wasn’t and the Zork Conundrum	1345
UK Corporate Hacking a Growing Business – The Conclusion.	1886		2
PUBLIC NOTICE To the Operators and owners of AS8912 NETBENEFIT Group NBT plc (formerly NetBenefit) London, UK	533
The Hacking at KOVTR – interim update.	1386		3	1
Stephen, The Filter and Why it’s not about the Porn or the Kids.	502		1
Cyberwarfare arrives on the Blogsphere – An update on the Hacking of KOVTR.	339		1
KOVTR is being attacked for telling the Truth.	540
From Sharing and Caring to Piracy in less than thirty years	4390	2	9	5
Reason Number 5 For the Loss of Music Sales – iTunes is too Good.	2626	10	1	4
The NBN The Quill Pen and Fear of Change	1078
Reason Number 5 why Music Sales might be/are down Let’s Talk about Second hand Games.	1677	5		4
Just the Facts please Ma’am and Don’t give me no Bull.	847
Totals 22 Articles	30389	27	33	24

Number of articles down for the month = 4

Damage from uninvited guests… an estimated thirty thousand minus Alexa “points”.

Prediction – next month we’ll be at 330,000.

References:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fkovtr.com%2Fwordpress#