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name: gamehall-visitors
description: Who is visiting Kestrel's Hall, the landing page at gamehall.kestrelsnest.social - the last hour, today, where they came from, how many went on into each game, and the week's trend. Use when Eric asks about hall traffic or visitors.
---

# Kestrel's Hall visitors

One command on the shared host prints the digest:

    ssh root@159.203.115.252 /usr/local/bin/gamehall-visitors.sh [YYYY-MM-DD]

Default is today, UTC. It reads Caddy's access log for the hall's own
name (the sslip test address is left out) and prints:

- **last hour** (today only): people and page views, the "right now".
- **today**: people (distinct addresses), page views, bot addresses.
- **referrers** and **campaigns**: the sites that sent people, and the
  tags links carry (`?ref=`, utm_source, Facebook's fbclid). Reddit and
  some apps send no referrer.
- **went on to**: people each game on this host (Dip, Waving Hands,
  Hnefatafl) received with the hall as referrer. The hall sends its
  origin as referrer, nothing more. Wiz-War is on its own droplet; its
  own digest (/wizwar-visitors) lists gamehall.kestrelsnest.social among
  its referrers.
- **last 7 days** from `/var/lib/gamehall/rollup.jsonl`, written nightly
  at 00:12 UTC by `gamehall-rollup.sh` (run by `hall-nightly.sh`) for the day before (counts only,
  no addresses).

## Read it

Lead with whether anyone is here now and today's people, then where they
came from, then how many went on into a game (the hall's job is to send
people to tables). Give the week's direction from the rollup in one
sentence. Eric's own devices count as people; a handful on a quiet day
may be him.

The source is `gamehall/ops/` in game-kit; `gamehall/deploy.sh` installs
it on every publish.