The 2021 Top 100
Let’s try something different. The statistics package that runs on the live
web server tallies by the month. What it can say about unique visitors for a whole
year is plainly unreliable. It also relegates a long tail to the summary description
of Others but in a way that looks to me like it can leave some means of alternative
access to more popular pages unaccounted. Still, there’s enough data for at least
a rough review of the year’s viewing.
The total number of visits, at 253,045, plausibly would be reliable but is
in this year a small undercount since it ignores access through plain old HTTP
in January and February. My obscure and deeply technical website had at least
a quarter of a million visits in a year, and I am in no way unhappy about this.
The list below is of the 100 document pages that had the most views through
the whole of 2021. Faded titles are just index pages which I presume are viewed
only or mainly on the way to others, especially while moving from one Table of
Contents (TOC) to another. One of those index pages is just the skimpiest of placeholders,
pending my writing an introduction, which I likely never will get round to. The
TOCs are omitted entirely, as is the banner page, since none of these are meant
to be seen independently of a document page.
I highlight some counts of visits just to draw attention to the corresponding
pages as ones that I happen for reasons of personal satisfaction to be unusually
glad to have written. Some are old, some new. Some are well polished, some still
far from finished.
| Rank |
Page |
Visits |
| 1 |
Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst |
51,372 |
| 2 |
AOL Exploits Bug in Own Software (AIM) |
14,683 |
| 3 |
Kernel32 Functions |
11,612 |
| 4 |
Kernel-Mode Windows |
11,600 |
| 5 |
Strange Things LINK Knows About 80x86 Processors |
8,675 |
| 6 |
Licensed Memory in 32-Bit Windows Vista |
8,040 |
| 7 |
NTDLL Exports |
7,672 |
| 8 |
Win32 Programming |
6,523 |
| 9 |
PEB |
6,333 |
| 10 |
The Windows Explorer Command Line |
6,071 |
| 11 |
ZwQuerySystemInformation |
5,427 |
| 12 |
The Kernel-Power Event Provider |
5,058 |
| 13 |
SYSTEM_INFORMATION_CLASS |
4,181 |
| 14 |
Back Doors for Cross-Signed Drivers |
3,807 |
| 15 |
SYSTEM_PROCESS_INFORMATION |
3,782 |
| 16 |
KUSER_SHARED_DATA |
3,648 |
| 17 |
Shell |
3,635 |
| 18 |
Native API Functions |
3,612 |
| 19 |
NTDLL |
3,518 |
| 20 |
EPROCESS |
3,452 |
| 20 |
Notes |
3,452 |
| 22 |
BCD Elements |
3,304 |
| 23 |
Windows Kernel Exports |
3,177 |
| 24 |
Microsoft Visual C++ |
3,120 |
| 25 |
ADVAPI32 Functions |
2,926 |
| 26 |
LDR_DATA_TABLE_ENTRY |
2,876 |
| 27 |
TEB |
2,852 |
| 28 |
Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista |
2,831 |
| 29 |
Kernel Versions |
2,827 |
| 30 |
SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION |
2,703 |
| 31 |
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) |
2,452 |
| 32 |
Netwtw06 Driver Spams System Event Log |
2,401 |
| 33 |
About This Site |
2,389 |
| 34 |
Boot Options: nx |
2,347 |
| 35 |
What’s New? |
2,199 |
| 36 |
Internet Explorer |
2,129 |
| 37 |
SYSTEM_HANDLE_TABLE_ENTRY_INFO |
2,083 |
| 38 |
SHELL32 Functions |
2,062 |
| 39 |
The API Set Schema |
1,994 |
| 40 |
PEB_LDR_DATA |
1,902 |
| 41 |
THREADINFOCLASS |
1,796 |
| 42 |
KERNELBASE Functions |
1,762 |
| 43 |
BCD Objects |
1,679 |
| 44 |
The AARD Code |
1,647 |
| 45 |
HAL Versions |
1,630 |
| 46 |
The Boot Status Data Log |
1,618 |
| 47 |
Consultation |
1,593 |
| 48 |
Licensed Driver Signing in Windows 10 |
1,578 |
| 49 |
KERNEL32 Versions |
1,566 |
| 50 |
The First Run Page in Internet Explorer |
1,521 |
| 51 |
Feedback |
1,501 |
| 52 |
RtlInitUnicodeString |
1,499 |
| 53 |
Boot Options: detecthal |
1,498 |
| 54 |
The Service Control Manager Event Provider |
1,493 |
| 55 |
KPCR |
1,491 |
| 56 |
Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista |
1,477 |
| 57 |
The x86 BIOS Emulator |
1,440 |
| 58 |
SVCHOST |
1,419 |
| 59 |
NTDLL Versions |
1,402 |
| 60 |
Disable Global Hot Keys |
1,319 |
| 61 |
Software Analysis by Reverse Engineering |
1,306 |
| 62 |
The Microsoft Visual C++ Linker |
1,303 |
| 63 |
NtTraceControl |
1,283 |
| 64 |
KTHREAD |
1,266 |
| 65 |
Event Tracing for Windows |
1,253 |
| 66 |
Boot Options: numproc |
1,244 |
| 67 |
RTL_PROCESS_MODULE_INFORMATION |
1,230 |
| 68 |
THREADINFO |
1,178 |
| 69 |
The CPUID Instruction |
1,147 |
| 70 |
SYSTEM_THREAD_INFORMATION |
1,146 |
| 71 |
KPROCESS |
1,132 |
| 72 |
KPRCB (x64) |
1,109 |
| 73 |
SYSENTER and SYSEXIT in Windows |
1,100 |
| 74 |
Browsing Guide |
1,092 |
| 75 |
Feature Control in Internet Explorer |
1,074 |
| 76 |
Terms of Use |
1,059 |
| 77 |
ADVAPI32 |
1,044 |
| 78 |
The Shell Core Provider |
1,023 |
| 79 |
ETHREAD |
1,006 |
| 80 |
ETW Security |
990 |
| 80 |
WND |
990 |
| 82 |
Shim Database (SDB) Files |
985 |
| 83 |
RtlGetNtVersionNumbers |
982 |
| 84 |
Windows API Sets |
979 |
| 85 |
The CPL Icon Loading Vulnerability |
970 |
| 86 |
Predefined C++ Types |
955 |
| 87 |
API Sets Added for Windows 10 |
954 |
| 88 |
ZwSetSystemInformation |
933 |
| 89 |
SYSTEM_BASIC_INFORMATION |
930 |
| 90 |
SHDOCVW |
919 |
| 91 |
SYSTEM_HANDLE_TABLE_ENTRY_INFO_EX |
905 |
| 92 |
KPRCB |
900 |
| 93 |
The Kernel Shim Engine |
886 |
| 94 |
URLMON Functions |
847 |
| 95 |
COMCTL32 Versions |
837 |
| 96 |
RtlSetProcessIsCritical |
831 |
| 97 |
Outlook Sends Email From Empty Outbox |
824 |
| 98 |
ZwQuerySystemInformationEx |
820 |
| 99 |
SVCHOST Process Initialisation |
792 |
| 100 |
SYSTEM_CODEINTEGRITY_INFORMATION |
781 |