After a few years of blogging (it doesn’t seem that long but it’s been a while now!) I don’t really look at the stats to obsessively – it’s an outlet and if it sometimes helps folks find an answer to something I’m flattered.

I recently moved hosting providers and wondered if the changeover had made any different to the traffic so started digging into the analytics I’ve had running but never really paid much attention to…

Three posts show up as driving almost a 25% of my traffic … which is a little sad considering the number of posts I have. I wonder if they’re not discoverable enough, or if I’m not doing a good enough job of promoting my brand.

So, what are the posts that drive folks in…

• Maxlength on Textarea. This was something I put together to deal with a specific problem I was having on a form validation and wanted to try and make an elegant solution. Browsers may have moved on since then, but it seems like it’s still a valid problem. Wonder if HTML5 will finally fix this ;)
• Upload and Resize. This was some code I needed to use on Big Brother and MyTalk projects. It allowed a simple integration of an image upload and thumbnail generator with some validation into either a Classic ASP or mixed Classic/.Net site. Far from perfect, but still popular.
• Performance tuning SQL applications for the Web. Like many developers my SQL skills were learnt at 4am trying to debug queries that were taking minutes rather than milliseconds. After spending a lot of time fixing some mistakes I made I posted the things I have learned and it seems that folks have been referring to them a fair bit over the years since. As long as it stops someone else making the same mistakes!

I’m probably not going to change what I write about – as it tends to be what interests me at that moment – but if there’s something you like, or hate, about what you find here don’t hesitate to let me know…