Geoff Chappell - Software Analyst
This site had 17,607 visits in May 2012, from 13,769 unique visitors.
There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in May 2012. 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.
It’s somewhere between a pleasure and a relief that views of the article Licensed Memory in 32-Bit Windows Vista have dropped to the lowest since early 2009 when the article was fresh. Since that article is mostly accessed through links from other sites rather than through search engines—views held up well even through periods when Google lost almost all knowledge of this site—I infer that interest in the article’s topic is finally waning as 64-bit Windows supersedes 32-bit in ordinary use. In some ways, I wish I never had written that article (and very nearly didn't write it, in 2009, having sat on the material since 2007). The article has undeniably brought many readers who would never otherwise have found the site, but it has also in its time brought hate mail (including through anonymisers) and has demonstrated very well how readily the Internet supports those who would reproduce the work of others as their own.
Something quirky in this month’s logs is an almost complete slump in access from China, which has for many years been a reliable second in the list of hits by country but this month ties with Yemen very nearly at the bottom of the list.