Map of recent visitors to Betty's

[Betty]

Operating systems & browsers of our visitors during the past 40 minutes. The graphs on Pale Moon, a Firefiox derivative, & Firefox are off. If you visit with Pale Moon in Firefox mode, it counts you as a Firefox user, & not Pale moon.

International stats are off for the 2 browsers as well, because companies like Google refuse to recognize Pale Moon as a separate browser, even when not running it in Firefox mode. So google is ranking our Pale Moon browsers as Firefox users.

I'll estimate 1/3 to almost half of all people listed as Firefox users are really using Pale Moon.

[Angela M...]

Well Betty, the weather in Southern Ontario today was 82 F and they say it will get warmer by mid-week. How are you coping with weather in Buffalo? September already and school starting next week. It will be Fall pretty soon and Halloween so get out your best dresses for Trick or Treat night.

[Angela M...]

I am starting to see little girls in the Malls shopping for clothes and even when I see any with dresses on there are no little ruffled panties underneath, just boy-shorts. Takes all the fun out of being a girl and teasing boys I would think. I have seen a few this week trying on the jumper style uniform dresses but they are at or below the knee length so no fun there and some of the skirts are actually skorts with built in shorts.

[Betty]

Browsers & OS used by our users during the past 30 minutes.

[Betty]

Map of visitors, their browsers, & OS, during the past 30 minutes. They sure change a lot every hour or 2.

[Betty]

Map of visitors, their OS, & browsers during the past 40 minutes. 2:30am Eastern USA time. Boy, you kids like to stay up late or get up really early.

Lots of variety in OS's used this morning/tonight. Still a lot of people on XP regularly visiting. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm working on a custom modified XP & 98SE to use a an alternative to Linux, but I still use W7 the most unless they try to muck it up again. But I use it in a custom XP style & mode. If you didn't know you were on W7, you'd swear it was XP. I keep Linux on both machines too, but just as a back-up & secondary OS, not as something I use a lot.

Linux users on the graph include Kindle users. Betty's is very Kindle, mobile, & portable friendly without having a separate mobile feed or code like other sites have to. The same version you get on your PC & laptop has been specially designed to work well on mobile devices too.

I surprised how many visit or read a story here on a small phone. I enjoy Betty's on my 32" LED/LCD TV. I got it almost for free with a blown power supply & fixed it. It looks & works like new & I love it.

I got it backwards though. Most people these days keep getting their TVs bigger & bigger, & are getting on the internet with small phones & tablets more. I'm almost always on the web with the 32" TV connected to my PC. (W7, dual core 3.533ghz, 2gb of RAM, dual internal hard drives), & watch TV on a 26" Vizio LED/LCD TV.

I got the Vizio for free with a blown power supply too & fixed it up. It also looks & runs like new. It's also a little more sensitive to off the air TV through an antenna than the others. It's one of the few modern TVs to still have front-firing speakers instead of bottom or rear speakers. So it sounds good, but not as good as any old TV. Sound on modern TVs seem to be a bare minimum afterthought rather than a necessity. Modern TVs make great monitors, & pick up TV signals too.

With it just a couple feet from the bed, where I watch most TV, it looks just as big as a 48" TV would across the room. Seriously, even my 15.5" laptop screen looks huge when it's right on my lap just a foot or 2 from my eyes.

I don't travel much anymore since I got COPD, so I keep the laptop connected to the Vizio TV, & play my pre-recorded movies, TV, & video downloads through it. With W7 on it too, it plays HD video, & surfs the net just fine with only a 1.8ghz single core, & 1.5gb of ram. I bought it in 2005, & rebuilt it after the fire (my PC was rebuilt from the fire too). Before a recent RAM upgrade, it did fine with only 0.75gb of RAM too. No graphics cards so they don't suck up lots of electricity either.

The 15.5" screen automatically shuts off when I run it through the TV so I'm not wearing down it's built in screen & wasting energy on it. Those older screens have florescent back-lighting, not LED so I don't want to wear it out.

Still have my 27" Olevia/Syntax LCD TV that I rebuilt after the fire. It has front speakers that sound great. But built in 2001, in very dark scenes, I can see faint dark patches on the screen showing the LCD screen is aging. So I keep it stored away now. I have a beautiful 24" 1080p LCD/LED monitor I got about 6 months before I got laid off too. But when I got the Vizio, I don't use the smaller screen for anything anymore.

I visit Betty's on my 4" Samsung phone, but just to test it. I usually just use my phone for texting, calls, & to play my favorite music. Because I'm online a lot. I can go all day without ever using my phone.

[Betty]

Map of visitors during the past 13 weeks.

[Betty]

Map of visitors during the past 40 minutes.

It's a few hours before dawn at my house, but past breakfast time in Europe on a Saturday morning.

Boy, you folks sure like to get an early start at the sissy sites. Traditionally, most people try to sleep in late on weekends because they stayed up late the night before.

If I didn't own this place I don't think a sissy or ABDL place would be one of the first things on my mind in the morning or during my lunch hour. It would be the type of place I'd like to go in the evening after work, college, at night before bedtime, or late weekends.

It's not like it's gonna be a rainy day so Europeans may be staying in today. I just checked the weather. It's going to be a nice day for most of Western Europe. Maybe that's it... being a nice day, they want to get their sissy urges out of the way early so they can go out later & enjoy the nice weather.

Hmmm... breakfast in a pretty dress - I haven't done that in a while.

[Betty]

Map of visitors to Betty's during the past 20 minutes. Lots of American visitors for 3:15am eastern USA time. Many Americans don't sleep much anymore. They just drink lots of coffee & stay grumpy all the time. Of course, most in Europe have already had breakfast by now.

[Betty]

Map of recent visitors during the past 30 minutes. Also a month's worth of hits statistics. Sharp dip in traffic over a week ago as we had database failures at stories, which accounts for almost 2/3 of our traffic. Database fixes continued to fail then. I suspect it was a drive failure at the server company. As people switch to SSDs for faster loading & response, they wear out & die real fast under heavy usage, compared to regular hard drives. If it wasn't for external backups at home or the other servers, stories would have been totally lost about twice a year.

I would gladly give up the speed of an SSD for the reliability of a regular hard drive, with less headaches & grief, or worrying about losing data & sites.

Stories never went down. I had it use a backup database of stories up & running right here at this server. But connecting databases between separate independent servers is slower than a database being served on the same server... esp. when the stories server was failing to start with. But it did lighten the load on the server until they could fix it proper.

Another reason for the dip in traffic, is as soon as there's a problem of any kind, I restrict access to member's only to lighten loads, & make it easier to fix problems. With no public access to the entire site, traffic dips, but works the server less hard during problems & repairs.

Quite a recovery this weekend. We had a near-record breaking 19,533 hits Sunday, 15,653 hits Saturday, & 14,154 Friday. Yep, that's a lot! A year ago I considered 10,000 hits in a day too much, & feared overloading servers at around 11,000. In July we had 20,000 hits one day. That's twice the traffic that was considered too much a year ago.

Many of the changes & expenses over the past 6 months were to accommodate the extra traffic.

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