Geoff Chappell - Software Analyst
No pages at an obscure technical site are ever really hot, but many nowadays attract more than 100 views per month. There are nearing 2,000 pages at this site. Most are very detailed descriptions of functionality in Windows. Though they are the sort of thing that may be the key to some advanced programmer being able to complete his work, they are beyond arcane to everyone else. I am astonished that any of these pages get looked at even once a day.
This site had 18,407 visits in October 2011, from 13,113 unique visitors. This is a sharp decrease on previous months. It seems that Google is again losing track of pages here. Inspection of search results and of information at the Google Webmaster Tools suggests there has been yet another change in Google’s disposition to frames and scripts and to this website’s admittedly peculiar redirection of URLs to implement a Table Of Contents using lowest common functionality. There’s nothing I can do about this any time soon.
There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in October 2011. The faded titles are just index pages which I presume are viewed only or mainly on the way to others, especially while moving from one Table of Contents to another. Two of these index pages are just the skimpiest of placeholders, pending my writing an introduction. The rank in brackets is from the previous month.
| Rank | Page | Visits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | Licensed Memory in Windows Vista | 8,248 |
| 2 | (2) | Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst | 1,742 |
| 3 | (5) | Win32 | 510 |
| 4 | (7) | Kernel | 449 |
| 5 | (3) | Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista | 447 |
| 6 | (8) | Boot Configuration Data (BCD) | 427 |
| 7 | (9) | Notes | 357 |
| 8 | (15) | NTDLL Functions | 350 |
| 9 | (11) | Installed License Values | 347 |
| 10 | (14) | Shell | 285 |
| 11 | (19) | Boot Options: detecthal | 277 |
| 12 | (10) | Visual C++ | 275 |
| 13 | (12) | The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista | 248 |
| 14 | (26) | Licensed Processors in Windows Vista | 237 |
| 15 | (16) | Internet Explorer | 219 |
| 16 | (32) | Windows Policy Identifiers | 217 |
| 17 | (28) | LINK /IGNORE | 211 |
| 18 | (22) | BCD Elements | 199 |
| 19 | (25) | SVCHOST | 198 |
| 20 | (33) | ZwQueryLicenseValue | 178 |
| 21 | (35) | Boot Options: pae | 141 |
| 22 | (50) | What’s New? | 134 |
| 23 | (38) | About This Site | 133 |
| 24 | (56) | The Windows Explorer Command Line | 130 |
| 25 | (37) | BCD Objects | 118 |
| 26 | (17) | The Boot Status Data Log | 116 |
| 27 | (27) | Boot Options: nx | 102 |
| 27 | (31) | Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure | 102 |
| 27 | The MRXCLS.SYS Malware Loader | 102 | |