At 11:44:51 today this site served it’s 100,000th page. That’s 100,000 pages served to real people. In fact, many more pages have actually been served, but the recipients of this additional output are search engine spiders and spam merchants.

Since records began on 20th September 2004 there have been a total of 51,198 unique machines that have requested pages; of which, 29,045 are neither spammers, nor search engines. So allowing for NAT hiding some IP addresses, its fair to say that there have been well over 30,000 different visitors to this site.

Counting only the page requests of those visitors, the 100,000th page was served this morning.

The majority of these visitors arrive from search engines, so they’ve arrived based on some perception of relevance to a query, so it’s also fair to say that a large proportion of the pages viewed were actually useful or interesting to the requestor; which is really very nice indeed.

What’s eye opening is that referral and comment spam connections originated from a total of 20,044 different machines. The total number of spam related page requests is 42,633, which amounts to approximately 15% of all pages served.

I wonder how many people, machines and spammers will have passed through by this time next year…