[Loll-general] LoLL Usage Statistics and General Update

[B. E. I. <be...@sh...>]

LoLL daily usage since Release 1.0.1 continues at a good steady pace.

July page views totals: 20,362
July downloads totals:     311
August page views (to August 18): 6,875
August downloads (to August 18)      10

I continue to receive url suggestions from our users.  These definitely
improve the site, so keep them coming.  My policy is to respond to all
suggestions if an email address is supplied.

Total number of new bookmarks added since last update (July 17, 2002): 130

New Since Release 1.0.1

*Added Home Networking sub-category in Networking.
*Reviewed Networking--Browsers section and deleted outdated urls.
*Added Tcl sub-category in Programming Links.
*Moved all Tcl urls to Programming Links--Tcl.
*Added Business / Enterprise sub-category in Software Applications.
*Consolidated all HOWTOs into the Documentation--HOWTOs category. In keeping
 with LoLL policy, documentation links tend to appear twice in LoLL; once in
 a Documentation sub-category and once in the applicable subject category.
*Added Search Engines sub-category in Software Applications.
*Moved all search engine urls within Software Applications to Software
 Applications--Search Engines
*Moved all search engine urls in other categories to Software
 Applications--Search Engines.
*Revisions to following sub-categories:
 Linux General--Certification => Linux General--Certification / Training
 Networking--VoIP Related => Networking--VoIP
 Software Applications--Backup/Restore Apps =>Backup / Restore
 Software Applications--Demo Apps => Demo
 Software Applications--Office Apps => Office
*Added Text Editors sub-category in Software Applications.
*Consolidated all text editor urls into Software Applications--Text Editors
*Reviewed resources available on Linux hardware compatibility and added
 2 bookmarks to the Hardware category.
*Reviewed Networking--Email Clients/Servers. Added 5 bookmarks and deleted
 2 outdated bookmarks.

Database Maintenance

The weekly htcheck report was last run on August 15th.  There were 80 problem
urls. As stated in my previous report, most of these problems could be
easily fixed.  Whenever possible I email the website maintainer to determine
if their site will be coming back online.  There are 22 such queries
awaiting answers.  Since the last update to this list 37 urls have been
deleted and in most cases these were replaced by equivalent sites found via
Google. Running the htcheck report and dealing with the problems on a
regular basis has gradually reduced the number of problems appearing on the
report.  The end result is a better site.  If any of you spot out-of-date
bookmarks that you think should be removed, please let me know.

Barbara

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Barbara Irwin
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Victoria, B.C.  Canada