The fragile web we weave

Let’s not, shall we agree, ever say again that the net is resilient, or that it routes around damage, or other such platitudes? Statcounter, which provides details of the modest metrics round this parish, is down tonight after a transformer blew up thousands of miles away in Houston, Texas. That’s why things may be slow loading here tonight.

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As shed blogger Alex Johnson put it on Facebook today, nobody realises quite how much of their happiness depends on Statcounter until it’s gone.

I was going to try Google Analytics and, yes, give m’numbers to The Man, but it turns out they have problems too. Metrics - a tricky business, it seems.