The status of the web in 2026 from my tiny little corner…

I have a small web site. It is mainly for family, a local motorcycle group, and the home page of an app I maintain that has active users. I’d realistically expect to get maybe 100-200 hits a day, sometimes less, probably more after an app update. What do I actually see?

⁃ 10K to 15K daily hits from known bots
⁃ 2k to 3K initial page hits — guess: mostly unknown bots

The pages that are hit enough times to make my "top twenty" of the day total to the expected 100-200 hits. Then there are the thousands of http: and other requests that result in redirects.

I am old enough to remember the days before ai and SEO when most hits were actually looking for something on the site. No way the machines I ran in those days could handle todays load.

#web #IndieWeb

New Blogroll Post

“Weekly Notes 19/2026” by Thejesh GN

@thej: «My first, full-fledged in-class course at APU ended this week. The final round of assessments is yet to be done. I am in the process of it. Most students have done well. I have done physical…»

#WeeklyNotes #WN-19 #blog #indieweb

https://thejeshgn.com/2026/05/08/weekly-notes-19-2026/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

در حال حاضر کثیف تر از Gestapo، آیا پلیس تورنتو می تواند تصویر خود را با استخدام یک Mascot جدید احیا کند؟? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/fa/articles/دموکراسی-canadian-در-معرض-خطر-در-حالی-که-حکومت-بر-توده-ها-بر-مردم.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mob #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

New Blogroll Post

“Articles on Venus” by Jatan

«* Why explore Venus
* VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper
* EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus
* ISRO’s plan to study Venus in unprecedented detail alongside NASA and ESA»

#blog #indieweb

https://jatan.space/venus-articles/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

@JonSparks There, that's bonnie, I like that ;)

I think we should get a movement going to make this an indie standard.

https://khleedril.org/blog

#indieweb #smolweb #blog

Matthias Ott announces: Buck­le Up: Webmention plugin for Craft CMS version 1.3.0. https://matthiasott.com/notes/buckle-up #WebMentions #CraftCMS

I *told* you that I had another post in me about "tasteslop"!

In this post, I show how tasteslop is elegant consumption applied to cultural capital.

Legitimate digital literacies, just like real taste, require proof of work, productive friction, and small communities. Not smooth tools.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/beyond-elegant-consumption-again/

#DigitalLiteracies #IndieWeb

Well, it's official, I have torn down my site from surge.sh. Kind of sad since it was my first and only blog home.

The site's new home is Codeberg (ICYMI):

Site: https://readbeanicecream.codeberg.page/
RSS: https://readbeanicecream.codeberg.page/feed_rss_created.xml

So update your bookmarks and RSS feeds!

I still like the surge project and well keep my surge related posts there for informational purposes.

#indieweb #smallweb #smolweb #personalsites #blog #blogging #blogger #blogs #rss #foss #opensource #codeberg

#Vim carnival submissions about #PKM.

I hoped to get more people involved, but that wasn’t the case. Perhaps the next one will be 😅.

I loved @malin' mapping:

inoremap <C-l> <c-g>u<Esc>[s1z=`]a<c-g>u

I'll let you find what it does

#neovim #plaintext #notes #carnivals #fediverse #mastodon #editors #opensource #indieweb #BSD #linux

https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-202605

Kanadako politikariek jarraitzen dute esaten ez dituztela torturatzen. Torontoko polizia berri honek lagunduko al du Kanada txikitzen? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/eu/articles/kanadiar-politikariek-ustelkeriak-hiriari-eusten-dio.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

Gaur egun Gestapoa baino zikinagoa da, Torontoko poliziak bere irudia freskatu dezake Mascot berri sentsazional baten errekrutatuarekin? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/eu/articles/demokrazia-kanadiarra-arriskuan-dago,-toronto-masek-agintzen-duten-bitartean.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mob #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

It’s late… but I think I finally got my blog lists recommendations working on my Blogrolls page… whew. https://taonaw.com/blogroll/

#blogs #blogging #fediverse #indieweb

Updated my website:
Added new projects tab, includes list of ongoing projects like, Thoughts On, Pomodoro timer, fishing game etc. Misc spelling/links also addressed

https://matchamakes.net/

#indiedev #indieweb

This is my submission for the IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 prompt to write a love letter

https://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/05/07/love-letter-to-bacon

#IndieWeb #IndieWebCarnival #FrancisBacon #Art #100DaysToOffload

As another step to reduce my interaction with tech-oligarchy, I am migrating my personal website from #Microslop #Github to a smolass VPS.

But because I simply can't do one thing at a time and just get to desired results in a straight path like a normal person, I am doing this with as much Guix as I possibly can; so far with a #Guix built #container that runs on non-guixos VPS (cool right?)

Although I am certain nobody ever visited my site and I barely ever post there (trying to change that), but in case you subscribed to some #RSS feed of mine, I apologize for the breakage.

#indieweb

New Blogroll Post

“Articles on moons other than our Moon” by Jatan

«The not-Moon-Monday edition. 🌝»

#blog #indieweb

https://jatan.space/moons-other-than-our-moon-articles/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116527541711105481

I've updated my list with "Discover," a curated list of RSS feeds worth following, made by @brine.
Thanks for reaching out. 🌻

https://discover.brine.dev/

#indieweb #blogs

🔖 Bookmarked: Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

Is curation the personal web&#39;s superpower now that half the web is AI-generated, or has it always been? :)

🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

#Indieweb #Personalweb #Webmastery

Visit https://geff.re/random/ to, you guessed it, visit any random page on my site.

More personal sites should have this. Makes exploration fun.

#indieweb #smallweb #personalsites