#Canadian #media - well, the #legacy ones at least - are up in arms over the fact that #Meta / #Facebook is planning to block #news from appearing in #feeds in #Canada.

You managed to get a# law passed that means they would have to #pay you for the privilege of #linking to you, didn't you?

Now they get to choose whether to continue linking to you, or not.

You can't have it both ways with "You must link to us, but you must pay us to link".

I think they're in for a rude #webstats awakening.

Search engine crawler requests to www.bbc.co.uk today
(ignore the 24h, there's only data from today, ~17.5 hours)

Interesting how much more aggresively Google crawls vs. others.
("Value" is "total number of requests")

I've been meaning to sort this data into a visualisation for ages & it came up in a call about a new project yesterday so I did it this arvo.

#web #webstats #seo #webdev #bbc

Back out there in the real world, there is skepticism that people are really spending more time on #Mastodon and driving traffic etc.

This is impeding some take up.

And one BIG reason is that Mastodon hides HTTP referrer information for privacy reasons, so you cannot see Mastodon traffic in your web stats.

I agree with this decision – but I want to warm about this consequence, as I suspect organisations are underestimating the shift that has taken place. #webstats #analytics