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Apache, Nginx and the like log every request your web server processes, unless you’ve configured them not to. Whilst statistics packages such as Awstats, Webalizer, Google Analytics and friends provide a useful overview there’s nothing that beats the raw data for being able to answer your own questions. Here, I introduce an awk script you can use to get your own analysis going. »

Blog popularity: it’s nice to know what’s popular and what’s not with visitors on a blog and a summary of the most popular entries helps those who’ve not visited before. Thing is, there’s a problem… most blog popularity measures are based on visits for all time, so what if you write a new article? »

Yesterday, I published the first version of a tool to calculate and visualise website column widths which simplifies the process of splitting a content area into a number of equally spaced equal width columns. Yes, there are plenty of tools out there that will take a given column width and spacing and tell you the overall width, but there aren’t many that you can give the total width and the number of … »

This page contains a plugin you might like to use if you need to work out an arrangement of columns for a given width, such as for a website design. Select the number of columns and drag the box edge to choose the total width. »

If—within a javascript file—you wish to find the path to this file, how’s it done? »