Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or
seo
So I've been busy with this Stack Overflow thing over the last two weeks. By way of apology, I'll share a little statistic you might find interesting: the percentage of traffic from search engines at stackoverflow.com. Sept 16th one day after public launch10% October 11th
seo
There's something about the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry that I find highly distasteful. I've never quite been able to put my finger on it, until I read Rich Skrenta's pornographers vs. SEOs [http://www.skrenta.com/2007/04/early_adopter_pilotfish_pornog.html]
search engine optimization
Rich Skrenta, who may have written the first microcomputer virus [http://www.skrenta.com/cloner/], calls Google the start page for the Internet [http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_t.html]: > The net isn't a directed graph. It's not a tree.
security
I like to periodically watch the HTTP traffic on my server. I can see what I'm actually serving up over the wire, and how much bandwidth I'm using. That's how I noticed that I've become somewhat popular with direct-link image bandwidth thieves.