```json
{
    "title": "Giving up logging my blog traffic",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/06/24/giving-up-logging-my-blog-traffic/",
    "datePublished": "2005-06-24",
    "dateModified": "2005-06-24",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "I should explain that. I am no longer inserting the blog traffic into my Web server log database. The amount of crap was getting ridiculous, and taking up too much…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Giving up logging my blog traffic

I should explain that. I am no longer inserting the blog traffic into my Web server log database. The amount of crap was getting ridiculous, and taking up too much space.
By doing this, I reduced about 50 days of logs from 450,000 rows to 81,000 rows, a better representation of the traffic that my other domains get.
I am continuing to monitor and capture traffic using a combination of AdSense counters, the built-in logging capabilities of

[b2evolution](http://b2evolution.net/)

, and

[StatCounter](http://www.statcounter.com/)

. These sources will show the traffic that I am interested in, and not lose the true visitors in with the idiots.

Technorati:

[Apache](http://technorati.com/tag/apache)

,

[StatCounter](http://technorati.com/tag/statcounter)

,

[b2evolution](http://technorati.com/tag/b2evolution)