Category Archives: Websites

Seasonal Website Advertising Income Differences (Monthly RPM Changes)

I’ve been running advertising-supported websites for about 15 years now, primarily music-related.

I typically notice a decline in income at the beginning of the year, and a spike in income toward the end of the year. My audience is international, but the majority of visitors are from the USA and to a lesser extent other English-speaking countries.

I gathered up the data on my historical earnings for the last three years and charted how much income changes throughout the year on average. Using January as a baseline, this is how things change throughout the year:

Month Earnings vs. January Pageviews vs. January
January 0% 0%
February -2.2% -9.9%
March -2.0% -3%
April -6.1% +6.6%
May -15.0% -0.4%
June -18.0% -15.7%
July -16.1% -17.0%
August -6.8% -21.0%
September -4.4% -38.6%
October +2.5% -8.0%
November +16.3% -4.1%
December +26.6% -3.2%

What’s clear and obvious is that income is heavily impacted by the holiday season.

Something else that I didn’t realize is how much both traffic and earnings drop during the North American summer and early fall. I think this a sort of “go out and play” influence — I tend to get less traffic on days when people are out with friends in the evening or otherwise on vacation. People tend to spend less time working on music and looking for tools to make that music when they’re out playing music in clubs or at parties.

That’s my theory, at least.

Of course, this is a sample size of one person (across two sites) over three years, so there will be a significant margin of error. Nevertheless, I still find it interesting.

Google Is Not Very Smart (or Incredibly Smart)

To the layperson, Google might seem like the smartest company in the world.

Once you understand technology, it’s obvious that they’re not very smart. Or incredible geniuses.

If you’ve spent more than a few years building websites, you know very well the types of ignorant robot-stupid mistakes that Google can make. An example from this very blog is that I spent quite a few years working on multi-user dungeons (MUDs for short). There are a lot of posts on the subject, and Google’s ad system thinks that one of the main topics of this blog is digging holes in wet soil, and it’s not uncommon to see an ad for such machines on this site.

Google is PHENOMENALLY good at miscategorizing things. If there are two meanings to a phrase or topic, and 80% of the discussions in the world focus on the more popular meaning and 20% are about the less-popular meaning, the less-popular topic will be buried in the noise, because the systems will assume you mean “computer keyboards” when you meant “music keyboards”.

When you combine this with what I call “computational laziness”, this means that if your site happens to be categorized in a certain manner, you’re basically stuck there. Google doesn’t put much effort into revising its categorization models or re-analyzing sites based on new information.

What does that mean for web developers? Well, for a newer site, if Google puts you in a place you don’t want to be, you’re probably better off starting over from a different angle.

For people searching the web, it’s a little more complicated. Google is NOT designed to be the best search engine on the planet. Now that the search engine wars are over, the design has changed to focus on revenue maximization. What does that mean?

It means that Google as a search engine is designed to show you just-barely-adequate results that kind-of-but-not-really satisfy the question you were asking. It’s designed to be mostly-accurate but slightly frustrating, so that you are tempted to click on ads that seem likely to answer your question.

In a perfect world, a search engine would give you exactly the information you were looking for, as quickly and as accurately as possible. In THIS world, search engines are designed to give you the plausibly-relevant information that will benefit the search engine the most.

In a world where the profit motive rules over everything, product quality must necessarily suffer for the purpose of maximizing margins.

As something used by most of the people in the world pretty much daily, when does it make sense for search to become a public utility? It’s an interesting question worth pondering, but the mathematics and economics are far too complicated for a sound-bite answer.

The number of websites in existence has been relatively flat since 2017, not growing any faster than the world’s population, but processing power has effectively tripled. If Moore’s Law was still in effect, it should have grown 16x, but that ship has sailed. What this means is that, even though sites today have many more pages and much more data on average than six year ago, the ability to organize that information has grown faster than the actual quantity of information.

Google is not special. They’re just another business. And, with their original core patents being expired or expiring soon, there’s a lot of room to build something of higher quality with lower cost. Given the level of mind-share that they have (as any good look at Bing’s market share will confirm), is it worth it to build a competitor?

It depends.

Blocking Twitter and Other Nuisance Sites with BlockSite

It’s very common for news articles to contain links to Twitter. Some lazy writers even create articles that are nothing but a page of Twitter embeds.

I think Twitter is trash and never want to visit the site, and sometimes it’s not obvious that a link ends up on Twitter, especially with the widespread use of URL shorteners on the web.

I found a quick solution that works well via a plugin called BlockSite. I use both Firefox and Chrome, and it’s available for both.

BlockSite for Chrome

BlockSite for Firefox

There’s a lot more to it than just blocking garbage sites like Twitter, including things like setting up distraction-free hours to block social media during your workday, so check out their website for more info.

Here’s an example of the plugin preventing a visit:

BlockSite Plugin Preventing Twitter Access

BlockSite Plugin Preventing Twitter Access

Using Location to Assume User Language

My first language is English. I live in Uruguay, and while I’m comfortable and nearly fluent in Spanish, sometimes I’d rather use a website in English.

It is EXTREMELY common for a website to see the location of my IP address and assume they should send me a page in Spanish. This is perfectly fine, because everyone in Uruguay speaks Spanish. Not everyone has it as their first (or preferred) language given the number of immigrants here (especially from Brazil), but everyone speaks at least SOME Spanish here.

The other thing that sites may use is the language setting of your web browser. This is also a reasonable approach, although less common. I have one computer set to English and one set to Spanish, and I’ll sometimes get different versions of a site depending on which computer I use. This is mostly OK, but there are an unreasonable number of computers that have the language set to English (the most common default) even though the users don’t prefer English. There are also computers used by multi-lingual households, so using the computer’s language setting is an assumption at best, and probably less accurate than using someone’s location.

Of course, the right thing to do after you’ve made an assumption about the user’s language is allow them to change it. Typically this is a link or button somewhere along the top of the site. Although sometimes this will be a flag icon, that’s less than ideal when you’re dealing with countries that have multiple languages (Belgium, for example). People from that country have learned to adjust, and can pick the French, Netherlands, or even German flag if they need to.

The problem comes when a website doesn’t give someone the chance to change the language they’re viewing. Not only are geolocation services not 100% accurate, but just because you are IN a place doesn’t mean you are OF a place.

Sure, auto-translation tools are nice, and they get you 80% of the way there, but they rarely understand context, words with multiple meanings, regional word usage, or any of the other Human nuances. Maybe some day, but not today. So it’s important to allow a user to select their preferred language.

Sometimes it’s easy to change the language manually by hand-editing the URL. For example, these urls:

es.wikipedia.org/page-name
example.com/es/page-name
example.com/page-name?lang=es

Can easily be changed to:

en.wikipedia.org/page-name
example.com/en/page-name
example.com/page-name?lang=en

Where it gets really ugly, and I’ve seen this with media/streaming sites more than anything else, is when you deliberately visit a page in a specific language, and you are force-redirected back to the language you didn’t want.

The only hope for sites like that is to use a proxy server. Or close the browser tab. You should never force a language on a visitor if your site is available in other languages.

And if you find a site with this bad behavior, please send them a message letting them know the error of their ways. Maybe they’ll eventually learn.

 

MusicSrch Improvements

It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on MusicSrch.

For the past few years, I really didn’t have any time for side projects, and a few searches were very broken on the site due to changes in the various third-party websites. It needed some serious rehab.

I spent a few days fixing things and improving various features, and now it’s a lot better.

Give it a try at https://musicsrch.com

I plan to spend a lot more time working on it this year, and there are more sites I want to add to search.

Twitter: I Was Off By Four Years

Back in early 2018, I posted that 2018 would be the year that Twitter “ceases to be relevant”.

It turns out that I was off by four (or maybe five) years.

Twitter is certainly relevant TODAY, but much of its relevance is as a lesson in “how to destroy a company in under six months”. Whether it takes a few weeks or a year for the majority of users to leave and the site to become a mostly-forgotten memory is yet to be seen, but it’s toast.

When Elon purchased Twitter, I finally deleted my personal account. I had only been using the site to keep track of what was going on in Ukraine, and wasn’t interested in “joining the circus” after the transition.

Today I deleted links to Twitter from all of my websites. It’s just not somewhere worth participating in, and it’s not a useful place for communicating/publishing news about new things to an audience.

I don’t see it recovering, and not much of value will be lost.

What Was downloadwindowsprograms.com?

DownloadWindowsPrograms.com was a software download site that I ran (with some interruptions) from 2013-2021.

It offered software downloads for Windows and had a few hundred listings. Listings could be added by submitting a Portable Application Description (PAD) file.

PAD files were an interesting idea that made it much easier for shareware and freeware authors to distribute software, but over time they were co-opted by spammers (especially affiliate link spam) and people who wanted to distribute viruses, so filtering out the bad/useless things was an ever-increasing chore.

My site was an interesting experiment and it got a bit of traffic, but ultimately there’s no real demand for Windows software download sites now that Windows has a proper app store. Even once-massive sites like download.com are struggling. That’s why I shut it down in August 2021.

Now that you’re here, feel free to explore the blog a bit. I have a bunch of websites and music projects I’ve created, and you might find some of them interesting (under the “My Stuff” section of the sidebar).

Thoughts on Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser stands alone in that it is the only Adsense alternative that never made me angry.

It just worked. Setup was easy. There was no shady business, malicious javascript, browser hijacking, popover or popunder ads, push notification nonsense, or other user-alienating tomfoolery.

It’s the only ad network that I experimented with that didn’t make me want to turn on adblock on my own site, which had pretty minimal ads in the first place.

Earnings were terrible, as shown below. My site was a general-purpose non-niche site with global traffic based mostly in India, Pakistan, Turkey, and other non-high-revenue countries for advertising. In addition, the traffic volume was not high enough to attract anyone seeking to buy ads specifically on the site. Given that, take these earnings with a grain (or a bowl) of salt. Earnings would be much higher if your traffic was entirely from the U.S. Even so, the same traffic with Adsense would likely have earned around $8 or so.

If I had another site to monetize that was not compatible with Adsense, I’d use them again. I just wouldn’t expect to buy a fancy yacht from the earnings.

Outrage Is Useless

Before the algorithms took over the internet entirely, the news was obsessed with fear. Making people afraid was their goal, and it was what kept eyeballs glued to the screen.

As the internet evolved, fear was still in heavy circulation, and it benefited those who knew how to wield it. It was not just the news, but politicians and products meant to make you feel “safe”. But it started to change.

Over the past few years, thanks to “the algorithms”, I’ve noticed a shift more toward outrage than fear. When I visit a site, something is invariably presented that is meant to outrage me. Twitter does its best to make most of its trends political or “what celebrity did which outrageous thing you should get mad about”. Facebook shows me memes and news stories meant to make me mad, get my hackles up, and bring forth the fires of righteous indignation. So do all the other news and social media outlets.

When you’re presented with something, it’s worth taking a step back and looking at what sort of outrage it’s intended to provoke. Do you really want to waste your time yelling at some celebrity or making some 15-year-old kid cry for saying something ignorant on camera?

And when someone wants to direct their outrage your way, it’s best to just ignore it and let it blow over. It’s only temporary and in 10 minutes they’ll be outraged at someone or something else. Someone will always be offended by what you do or who you are. Don’t walk on eggshells for fear that someone might say something mean to you. Their opinions don’t matter, and that’s no way to live.

Outrage is useless. Don’t let it control you.

The WbSrch Experiment

Off-and-on over the last 8 years I’ve worked on an independent search engine called WbSrch. It made it as far as being as good as the late-1990s search engines, which is great, because the original goal was to build something much like Altavista. That was my first “main” search engine.

At one point I tried to turn it into a real business. That went poorly and I shut it down. Then I brought it back to work on as a hobby/fun project. That was interesting and fun for a while, but it’s run its course. I’ve done all the things I set out to do and learned all the things I wanted to learn. I’ve had my fun, so there’s no need to tinker with web search anymore. It did keep me busy toward the end of the pandemic as I was starting to go stir crazy, and I’m grateful for that.

If you’d like to see what it looked like when I finished with it, take a look at this capture on archive.org.

If you’d like to use a pretty good alternative search engine, I suggest Mojeek or Yandex. The MusicSrch music search engine is still going, too.

And if you’d like to get a copy of some of the data I collected, there are a few inexpensive data downloads available.

Now that you’re here, feel free to explore the blog a bit. I have a bunch of websites and music projects I’ve created, and you might find some of them interesting (under the “My Stuff” section of the sidebar).

PoSSE and Facebook

One core idea of the “Indie Web” is “Publish on Your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere” (PoSSE). The idea is that you post content on your own website first and foremost, and then mirror it to social networks such as Facebook. This gives you more control over the original content, keeping it from being hidden behind a walled garden and preventing it from disappearing if you are banned from a site, it shuts down, the algorithms decide you’re not interesting, or it just decides to hide things older than X years.

It’s a good idea, and I think I’ll be implementing it a bit more in my own life. Don’t be surprised if you see more posts showing up and backfilling the site with non-recent publication dates. Most of my activity is on Facebook, but there is a little on Instagram, and even less on Twitter.

The one obvious drawback to publishing things publicly on your own site is that it lacks visibility controls like “friends only”, which is valuable, but not foolproof because anyone can screenshot and forward anything. it does help keep down the number of randos sea-lioning into your conversations.

Since this blog intentionally does not allow comments, there’s little worry about that. There is still a little privacy concern, but as an Extremely Online Person, I don’t care much about privacy and everything is pretty much out there anyway.

Removing Politics From Twitter

My disdain for Twitter is no secret. It is a cesspool of the worst people on Earth. But it does have some redeeming qualities if you can manage to filter out all the political nonsense

Here’s how I filter out most of the crap (there are a few more that go off the screen, but not that many).

I should really turn off trends, but instead I either click “Not interested in the topic” or “This trend is harmful or spammy” when I see anything political. Anecdotally, clicking “not interested” seems to have more effect. I also not-interested sports topics since I’m genuinely not interested in any sports. They don’t make me angry, though.

I also block everyone who looks even remotely annoying and have built a block list of around 1000 people over the past 10 years or so. My block list is insane and is about 90% MAGA idiots (and there seems to be a deep supply of them) and about 10% always-outraged liberals. Most of the MAGA scum on Twitter are either bots or morons who are indistinguishable from bots. This does of course mean that I’m missing out on the finer details of the United States’ inevitable descent into totalitarian fascism, which is a real loss.

All in all, it is a LOT of effort to de-politicize your Twitter feed, and it’s probably not worth it. If Twitter had any sense, which they don’t, they’d add an option to filter out political nonsense. I think they know that if they added that option, there would be almost nothing left and most of the wingnuts would leave, destroying their monthly active user numbers. So, instead of making it a decent place where you can find useful information, they made it a place full of angry assholes always getting angrier about things. That’s the thing with social media — the algorithms LOVE to keep people outraged and angry because that results in more eyeballs-glued-to-the-site time.

My feed is for the most part now a mix of cute capybara pictures, 3D art, and pictures of Spain. You should probably follow CAPYBARA_MAN.

Or just don’t bother wasting your time with Twitter. That’s always an option. Fear not, you’re missing out on nothing.

New Web Browser: Scleroglossa

For quite a while I’ve wanted to build a web browser based on the Gecko engine by Mozilla, which is what powers Firefox. Until recently I never had the right combination of time and motivation to dig in.

Well, now that I have, here’s the result – the Scleroglossa browser for Windows.

It’s available for download on the Lambda Centauri website.

Cleaner URLs Without Tracking Nonsense

Have you ever seen a link with a bunch of extra stuff on it? Facebook URLS with “fbclid=<big string of letters” or links with a bunch of “utm_medium=<whatever>” or those horrendously long product links you get from Amazon?

They’re used for tracking behavior, and handy for people getting marketing and attribution data. If you don’t mind them, that’s cool. They annoy me a little because I like clean, readable URLs.

There’s a browser extension to get rid of them, called ClearURLs:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanjgmijmafbedllaakclkaicjfmnk/related

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

I Don’t Care About Cookies

I’m tired of websites showing me cookie warnings that I have to click through to remove some sort of overlay that obscures some portion of the site. I have not nor will I ever care about cookies. They’re a built-in part of the browser that should just work invisibly, and they’re an important part of making apps work.

There’s an extension that’s called, appropriately, “I Don’t Care About Cookies”. Here it is:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-cookies/fihnjjcciajhdojfnbdddfaoknhalnja

Windows Software by Lambda Centauri

I’ve written a lot of apps for Windows (and other) PCs. Originally I published everything as Zeta Centauri, but it was a weird combination of audio apps and utilities that didn’t mesh well with audio apps (calculators, word processing, image viewer, browser). I’ve launched a new website for the utility apps to keep them separate from the audio apps.

Check it out here: https://lambdacentauri.com

Blocking Spammy or Malicious IPs with Nginx

Over the years I’ve added a bunch of sites and networks to my IP block list. They’re sources of spam, hack scripts, and traffic that just wastes my time and resources.

Not all of these sites are spam or malicious at this very moment (some had viruses or were otherwise compromised as part of a botnet), it’s just what I’ve found useful to block. The names are optional. I just added comments with what the network looked up as (or why it was blocked).

Here’s what I’ve blocked. To implement this in Nginx, edit the nginx.conf and in the main block add “include blockips.conf” with this file saved as blockips.conf in the same directory.

 

# Every one of these networks has been blocked because they have
# behaved in a spammy, botlike, no-account hackscript way.
# Add this to your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf like so:
# include blockips.conf;
# (assuming it's in the same directory)
deny 27.16.0.0/12; # CHINANET Hubei province network
deny 27.148.0.0/14; # CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 27.152.0.0/13; # CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 27.184.0.0/13; # CHINANET hebei province network
deny 36.248.0.0/14; # China Unicom Fujian Province Network
deny 39.64.0.0/11; # China Unicom Shandong province network
deny 42.224.0.0/12; # China Unicom Henan province network
deny 46.105.127.195; # OVH SAS - For spamming searches on WbSrch.
deny 50.21.178.17; # >30k spam queries from securedservers.net
deny 50.21.178.18; # >15k spam queries from securedservers.net
deny 58.20.0.0/16; # China Unicom HuNan province network
deny 58.22.0.0/15; # China Unicom FuJian province network
deny 58.240.0.0/15; # China Unicom Jiangsu province network
deny 58.248.0.0/13; # China Unicom Guangdong province network
deny 59.56.0.0/14; # CHINANET fujian province network
deny 59.60.0.0/15; # CHINANET fujian province network
deny 60.0.0.0/13; # China Unicom Hebei Province Network
deny 60.10.0.0/16; # China Unicom Hebei Province Network
deny 60.11.0.0/16; # China Unicom Heilongjiang Province Network
deny 60.12.0.0/16; # China Unicom Zhejiang province network
deny 60.168.0.0/13; # CHINANET anhui province network
deny 60.176.0.0/12; # CHINANET Zhejiang province network
deny 60.195.248.0/21; # Beijing Bitone United Networks Technology Service Co., Ltd.
deny 60.220.0.0/14; # China Unicom Shanxi Province Network
deny 60.252.192.0/19; # Daqing Zhongji Petroleum Communication
deny 61.140.0.0/14; # CHINANET Guangdong province network
deny 61.144.0.0/15; # CHINANET Guangdong province network
deny 61.147.123.0/24; # CHINANET jiangsu province network
deny 61.235.0.0/16; # China TieTong Telecommunications Corporation
deny 101.16.0.0/12; # China Unicom Hebei province network
deny 101.64.0.0/13; # UNICOM ZheJiang Province Network
deny 101.224.0.0/13; # CHINANET SHANGHAI PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 104.238.93.98; # GoDaddy site excitesubmit.com/excitesubmit.net/excitesubmit.org spamming domain searches (perhaps acting like they're a site submit service)
deny 110.80.0.0/13; # CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 110.88.0.0/14; # CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 110.152.0.0/14; # CHINANET xinjiang province network
deny 110.176.0.0/13; # CHINANET SHANXI PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 110.228.0.0/14; # China Unicom Hebei province network
deny 110.240.0.0/12; # China Unicom Hebei province network
deny 111.0.0.0/10; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 112.0.0.0/10; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 112.111.0.0/16; # China Unicom Fujian Province Network
deny 111.128.0.0/11; # North Star Information Hi.tech Ltd. Co. (China)
deny 112.224.0.0/11; # China Unicom Shandong province networ
deny 113.64.0.0/11; # CHINANET Guangdong province network
deny 113.96.0.0/12; # CHINANET Guangdong province network
deny 113.240.0.0/13; # CHINANET HUNAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 115.48.0.0/12; # China Unicom Henan province network
deny 114.80.0.0/16; # CHINANET SHANGHAI PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 115.192.0.0/11; # CHINANET Zhejiang province network
deny 115.224.0.0/12; # CHINANET Zhejiang province network
deny 166.62.101.30; # >50k Spam queries from secureserver.net.
deny 117.24.0.0/13; # CHINANET Fujian province network
deny 117.32.0.0/13; # CHINANET Shanxi(SN) province network
deny 117.128.0.0/10; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 118.186.0.0/15; # Building D, No.2 Shangdi Xinxi Road Pioneering Park,
deny 118.213.0.0/16; # CHINANET Qinghai Province Network
deny 119.4.0.0/14; # China Unicom SiChuan province network
deny 119.39.0.0/16; # China Unicom HuNan province network
deny 119.48.0.0/13; # China Unicom Jilin province network
deny 119.233.128.0/17; # Xiamen Broadcasting & TV Network Transmit Co.Ltd
deny 119.248.0.0/14; # China Unicom Heibei Province Network
deny 120.0.0.0/12; # China Unicom Heibei Province Network
deny 120.32.0.0/13; # CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 120.40.0.0/14; # CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 120.192.0.0/10; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 121.204.0.0/14; # CHINANET Fujian province network
deny 121.224.0.0/12; # CHINANET jiangsu province network
deny 123.4.0.0/14; # China Unicom Henan province network
deny 123.128.0.0/13; # China Unicom Shandong Province Network
deny 123.168.0.0/14; # CHINANET SHANDONG PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 124.128.0.0/13; # China Unicom Shandong province network
deny 125.88.0.0/13; # CHINANET Guangdong province network
deny 153.3.0.0/16; # China Unicom Jiangsu province network
deny 175.0.0.0/12; # CHINANET HUNAN PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 175.42.0.0/15; # China Unicom Fujian Province Network
deny 175.44.0.0/16; # China Unicom Fujian Province Network
deny 180.76.0.0/16; # Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
deny 180.96.0.0/11; # Chinanet Jiangsu Province Network
deny 182.128.0.0/12; # CHINANET Sichuan province network
deny 183.64.0.0/13; # CHINANET Chongqing Province Network
deny 183.128.0.0/11; # CHINANET Zhejiang province network
deny 183.192.0.0/10; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 202.228.204.204; # server.hiraishoten.net
deny 210.73.208.0/20; # Beijing Blue Ocean information technology co.LTD
deny 218.6.0.0/17; # CHINANET fujian province network
deny 218.56.0.0/15; # China Unicom Shandong province network
deny 218.80.0.0/16; # CHINANET Shanghai province network
deny 218.204.0.0/14; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 219.128.0.0/13; # CHINANET Guangdong province network
deny 220.160.0.0/15; # CHINANET Fujian province network
deny 220.168.0.0/15; # CHINANET Hunan province network
deny 221.0.0.0/15; # China Unicom Shandong province network
deny 221.10.0.0/16; # China Unicom SiChuan province network
deny 221.224.0.0/13; # CHINANET jiangsu province network
deny 222.76.0.0/14; # CHINANET fujian province network
deny 222.136.0.0/13; # China Unicom Henan province network
deny 222.176.0.0/13; # CHINANET Chongqing province network
deny 222.240.0.0/13; # CHINANET Hunan province network
deny 223.8.0.0/13; # CHINANET SHANXI PROVINCE NETWORK
deny 223.64.0.0/11; # China Mobile Communications Corporation
deny 222.84.0.0/16; # CHINANET Guangxi province network

PageRank Lives: OpenPageRank by Domcop

In the early days of Google, PageRank was a very important piece of information about a website. It let you know the general authority level of a site and how well it would tend to rank against similar content on another site. The PageRank toolbar, released in 2000, became an important tool in the SEO world.

Over time, Google de-emphasized PageRank, partly because people were gaming the system and partly because they switched to emphasizing other factors when ranking a site. They eventually stopped updating PageRank data and in 2016, they finally shut off the toolbar.

There have been other metrics created, such as Domain Authority by Moz, but nothing has quite been a proper replacement.

Now that the PageRank patent has expired, companies are free to implement their own versions. Domcop has done just that, using the Common Crawl data to calculate PageRank for the top 10 million domains on the web.

You can use it here: https://www.domcop.com/openpagerank/

As of the time of this post, Xangis.com has an OpenPageRank of 3.40.

Top-Level Domain Popularity

In a crawl of just over 32 million pages, this is the number of domains that I discovered for each top-level domain (TLD). The “Known Domains” is the number of domains with that extension that were found in links, while the “Crawled Domains” is the number of domains where pages were retrieved from.

Extension Known Domains Crawled Domains
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.aarp 1 0
.abarth 1 1
.abb 9 1
.abbott 74 32
.abbvie 0 0
.abc 9 1
.able 0 0
.abogado 82 47
.abudhabi 12 2
.ac 1404 540
.academy 9638 6340
.accenture 1 0
.accountant 550 347
.accountants 611 417
.aco 6 6
.actor 682 444
.ad 726 143
.adac 1 1
.ads 29 0
.adult 4438 3832
.ae 15743 8579
.aeg 1 1
.aero 4000 2179
.aetna 0 0
.af 1279 435
.afamilycompany 0 0
.afl 13 8
.africa 305 152
.ag 2497 1325
.agakhan 0 0
.agency 14562 9300
.ai 4685 2083
.aig 1 0
.aigo 0 0
.airbus 0 0
.airforce 101 60
.airtel 0 0
.akdn 0 0
.al 3944 1224
.alfaromeo 0 0
.alibaba 0 0
.alipay 0 0
.allfinanz 1 0
.allstate 0 0
.ally 1 0
.alsace 85 43
.alstom 0 0
.am 8687 3314
.americanexpress 0 0
.americanfamily 0 0
.amex 4 0
.amfam 0 0
.amica 3 1
.amsterdam 15930 13438
.analytics 3 0
.android 2 0
.anquan 0 0
.anz 1 0
.ao 1051 541
.aol 1 0
.apartments 1395 963
.app 3397 1067
.apple 13 0
.aq 60 31
.aquarelle 13 12
.ar 290350 193365
.arab 0 0
.aramco 2 1
.archi 934 633
.army 384 241
.arpa 2 0
.art 1305 467
.arte 4 1
.as 2027 1219
.asda 1 0
.asia 87348 48153
.associates 959 693
.at 482762 283611
.athleta 0 0
.attorney 3192 2492
.au 676566 422310
.auction 1032 694
.audi 146 53
.audible 1 1
.audio 2662 1675
.auspost 6 3
.author 3 0
.auto 143 69
.autos 2 0
.avianca 0 0
.aw 209 141
.aws 30 2
.ax 627 343
.axa 9 4
.az 9198 2090
.azure 3 1
.ba 8972 5858
.baby 10 2
.baidu 3 0
.banamex 0 0
.bananarepublic 0 0
.band 2997 1914
.bank 493 277
.bar 2210 1382
.barcelona 144 56
.barclaycard 9 3
.barclays 21 4
.barefoot 0 0
.bargains 895 597
.baseball 0 0
.basketball 36 15
.bauhaus 1 1
.bayern 267 168
.bb 362 225
.bbc 4 0
.bbt 2 0
.bbva 1 1
.bcg 0 0
.bcn 3 0
.bd 3134 986
.be 394979 286735
.beats 1 0
.beauty 4 0
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.bentley 1 0
.berlin 15650 9387
.best 249 135
.bestbuy 1 0
.bet 627 229
.bf 386 175
.bg 26043 3364
.bh 777 336
.bharti 0 0
.bi 379 157
.bible 113 50
.bid 2039 539
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.bing 2 1
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.bio 6462 4167
.biz 966268 563218
.bj 176 75
.black 1335 904
.blackfriday 505 325
.blockbuster 0 0
.blog 5342 1900
.bloomberg 73 0
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.bm 1284 747
.bms 1 1
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.bn 375 137
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.bnpparibas 41 20
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.bom 3 1
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.bot 55 22
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.box 26 0
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.bs 209 80
.bt 488 220
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.bv 2 0
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.cern 19 12
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.cfa 5 1
.cfd 3 1
.cg 114 32
.ch 529953 328052
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.chase 1 0
.chat 2957 1875
.cheap 1275 880
.chintai 1 0
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.chrome 2 0
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.ci 1038 447
.cipriani 1 1
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.citadel 0 0
.citi 3 0
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.co 384542 252055
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.comcast 1 0
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.comsec 0 0
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.contact 2 0
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.country 86 51
.coupon 1 0
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.cx 1859 710
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.cyou 1 0
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.dabur 1 1
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.deal 0 0
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.delta 2 1
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.dev 893 485
.dhl 9 4
.diamonds 1229 889
.diet 779 544
.digital 8922 5915
.direct 4063 2927
.directory 6229 4730
.discount 1844 1173
.discover 1 0
.dish 0 0
.diy 2 0
.dj 500 268
.dk 343151 280337
.dm 129 64
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.do 3578 1635
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.doctor 522 120
.dodge 0 0
.dog 2630 1763
.domains 2811 1715
.dot 6 0
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.drive 4 0
.dtv 0 0
.dubai 0 0
.duck 0 0
.dunlop 0 0
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.dupont 0 0
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.dvag 10 2
.dvr 0 0
.dz 1767 814
.earth 1840 1318
.eat 1 0
.ec 7957 5105
.eco 135 69
.edeka 8 2
.edu 187599 100044
.education 8609 5628
.ee 35647 22095
.eg 3556 1038
.email 3779 2700
.emerck 0 0
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.engineer 786 516
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.epson 1 1
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.er 14 2
.ericsson 0 0
.erni 5 2
.es 503765 286165
.esq 0 0
.estate 3769 2660
.esurance 0 0
.et 576 196
.etisalat 0 0
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.fage 8 6
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.fan 23 10
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.farm 4594 3258
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.ferrero 0 0
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.fiat 0 0
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.fido 0 0
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.fire 4 1
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.fk 42 13
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.flir 0 0
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.fo 1467 886
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.forum 2 0
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.fox 11 2
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.frontier 0 0
.ftr 0 0
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.fyi 2502 1806
.ga 8892 3830
.gal 1844 1038
.gallery 7602 5129
.gallo 0 0
.gallup 0 0
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.gap 1 0
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.gb 6 0
.gbiz 0 0
.gd 1053 481
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.ge 8048 2317
.gea 0 0
.gent 857 467
.genting 1 1
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.gf 40 11
.gg 6276 3820
.ggee 1 1
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.got 2 0
.gov 39295 19002
.gp 542 199
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.gr 255119 146141
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.gs 1077 420
.gt 4323 2647
.gu 24 11
.guardian 4 0
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.guge 1 0
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.guru 23285 17219
.gw 15 6
.gy 523 243
.hair 1 0
.hamburg 305 189
.hangout 1 0
.haus 1796 1215
.hbo 0 0
.hdfc 0 0
.hdfcbank 0 0
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.help 4430 2641
.helsinki 0 0
.here 18 0
.hermes 1 0
.hgtv 0 0
.hiphop 342 234
.hisamitsu 3 1
.hitachi 3 1
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.hk 42346 15826
.hkt 0 0
.hm 134 50
.hn 1191 663
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.holdings 1982 1358
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.homesense 0 0
.honda 4 2
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.horse 205 97
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.hotels 1 0
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.hsbc 7 1
.ht 491 231
.hu 359105 254012
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.icbc 1 1
.ice 11 2
.icu 9620 2978
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.ie 154458 91810
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.ikano 2 2
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.ing 0 0
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.lego 0 0
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.zone 7292 4840
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Total 44202501 23848767

Silica Gel Packet Websites (Plus Favorite Packets)

For ages I’ve run websites that are image galleries of silica gel packets. You could say that I’m a pioneer in the field of silica gel packet collecting. It all started when a coworker gave me a silica gel packet with the word “candy” written on it.

In 2009, I bought the domain do-not-eat.com [Archive.org September 2010]. It was just a simple photo gallery with a dozen or so packets, but it managed to get some organic traffic. I sold the domain for something like $30 and the new owner kept the site up for a year or two.

In 2012, I bought the domain silica-gel.org. I built a Django site and added a bunch of packets, also linked by ink color, language, and manufacturer. I ad a packet now and then as I discover new and different ones.

Silica-Gel.org Website Logo

 

 

 

These are my favorite packets.

This one has a nice transparent blue flower that lets you see the silica gel balls.

This one has a phenomenal amount of text and has nice fonts and imagery.

I like this one just because it is orange. There are a few nice orange packets, especially ones from Topcod.

This is another nice orange packet and I enjoy the skull and crossbones.

That’s it for the highlights of my silica gel packet collection.

If you’d like to download a copy of the silica-gel.org website (including archived images), it’s available as open source on GitHub.