A few days ago, I posted about writing a new WordPress stats thing because the Jetpack stats layout annoyed me too much.
I’ve continued to tinker with it, and I think it should now basically be usable. I renamed it to wse (WordPress Statistics for Emacs), and it’s on Microsoft Github if anybody’s interested in trying it out.
The Emacs portion updates asynchronously in the background now.
I added one thing that doesn’t have anything to do with statistics per se — it now also displays recent comments, because that’s something one has to keep track of (if for no other reason than to delete any spam that slips through the (very good, but not perfect) Akismet anti-spam filter).
One thing that I’ve totally missed is that in 2020, Chrome changed how they do inter-site Referrers: They only send over the domain name, but leave off the path part. I thought I had a bug in my code, or that almost all domains had installed “referrer scrubbers” (like Google has always had). But nope: All you get is the domain name.
This is, of course, good for privacy. And I’m totally sure that Google did this Chrome change out of the goodness of their hearts, and not because this forces marketers to sign up for Google-based user tracking even harder than before. Good on ’em!
Speaking of browsers… I couldn’t help adding this little table. It’s not that it’s useful, but I was just kinda sorta curious about what people use these days. And the audience for this blog is just 50% Chrome users, which is unusual, of course. Such a discerning audience!
The desktop to mobile ratio surprises me, though — I thought that would be more 50/50, but nope. And, of course, tablets have stopped being a thing, but that’s not really surprising.
The sample is very small (one day), though, so drawing any conclusions here wouldn’t be a good idea.