I have covered this earlier, and a lot of folks who work in web analytics have been talking about getting huge chunks of traffic from Samara Oblast.
2016 – A Year in Review
As the year whittles down to a close, I’d like to look back towards both the highs and the lows of this year. Hopefully, I can then celebrate more such highs and try not to repeat the mistakes of the past year. Of course, it’d be great to bury all the proverbial hatchets and move on – perhaps this post (or if not this) is just that! Continue reading “2016 – A Year in Review”
Party De with the Fugay Family
For some reason, this song has just stuck in my mind on a loop this morning! I mean, it’s got a catchy rhythm and all.
However, the term party de is such an intrinsic theme between college friends, especially within Maharashtrians, that creating a cultural meme out of this term makes sense.
I remember as a teenager, most of the times when you would achieve something, rather than celebrating that achievement, there would always be the friends and family haranguing you with the same phrase – party de.
I am not a fan of Swapnil Joshi, however, he manages to catch the nerve of the marathi manus pretty accurately. Thankfully, his manus is most of the times celebrating the good times.
मराठी माणूस इथे कुठे आला?
येणार ना. जिथे पण मराठी समुदाय आणि मराठी रीतींबद्दल चर्चा आहे तिथे मराठी माणूस आहे.
This is the topic of another post, though. Something that I strongly feel. Until then, party on!
Dr. Strange and the case of Disabling Constructs
Dr. Strange is a Marvel Superhero set in the Avengers Universe. The Marvel Comics Universe (MCU) has rolled out a fair number of movies in these past years. Dr. Strange is one of it’s top grossing hits for a single Marvel super hero (beating Iron Man, Ant Man, Thor and Hulk).
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The referral spam bots are now from Saint Petersburg
I had written in the past about discovering the Samara Oblast bots. For those of you who are unaware, just quickly check in your Google Analytics, in the Audience reports section the Location report.
If you are receiving a bunch of traffic from Russia, then it’s most likely spammy traffic. This traffic will never convert and will always be a small set of users, however with a decently large number of sessions.
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What is Success?
This post was first published as part of a Publication on Medium, called Pause. If you like this one and want more such articles which make you stop and think for a moment, then definitely follow it on Medium.
Meanwhile on Reddit
Seriously, though heralded as a bold move, the amount of inconvenience this has caused to normal citizens is staggering.
