For many years, this blog was my lifeline. I would write a post and then stop by regularly to see whether any comments came in, and whom they were from. People who are now fast friends were found this way. There are quite a few people who I would hear from regularly back then and who are no longer blogging or commenting, and, sadly, some no longer correspond. I will admit that online friendships do seem to have a lifespan, unless they are taken to another level somehow.
The other interesting part of blogging and commenting is the 'hit count'. In 2010 when it began, my monthly number of visits (including my own from time-to-time to comment or check something) were in the range of 1500, which was quite gratifying.
Over 350 posts have been published here since April 2010 and the total number of 'hits' has been close to 140 000, as of today. It should be noted, however, that in June 2011, there was some sort of anomaly; 4500 visits in that month alone, and half of those from Russia in one great rush. I've always wondered what that was about.
Since then, up to about six weeks ago, the count was fairly steady, rising briefly when new posts went up and staying steady otherwise at about 1500 to 2000 per month. The site exceeded 100 000 in late 2015.
Here is the thing of interest: In May alone this year, there have been over 10 000 visits and since the first of June, the daily average is 600 to 1000. Not only is that interesting, there is a strange pattern of usage with huge peaks of use.
As well, the statistics reveal that in the past week (shown above graphically) 97% of visits were from the U.S. (always my main audience) whereas the all-time rate for the U.S. is about 50%. Also, this past month 97% of visitors were using Chrome (this is not an advert) and 93% were using Macintosh.
Please, if you know what is going on here, tell me!
I wish I knew what it is. As you know, Halle, we're seeing the same thing on T-Central. I am not seeing this on my Chronicles or T-Tunes blogs.
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It just gets sillier. 986 pageviews today.
ReplyDeleteSeems strange that T-C and Two Spirits are getting this but not your Chronicles, Calie. It doesn't look as though anyone is going to come forward to enlighten us, sadly.
If you ever do get a sensible answer, please let us know.
ReplyDeleteI will definitely do a follow-up post if we get that lucky, Tom.
DeleteI wish I could help enlighten you!!
ReplyDeleteMy stats have remained the same as of late. No recent anomalies. But there have been some strange things over time that have occurred with my numbers.
Blogging stats are weird!
Weird is right! And now it has come to the point where all I can do is just ignore them.
DeleteVery strange. I suspect it's a Blogger issue. I've had spikes in the past as well (from Russia, in fact), but they're almost invariably a one-day event. No clue what the cause was. As Nadine noted, Blogger stats are weird...
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Yes, the one day event would be easy to accept at this point. I used to enjoy stopping by the stats to see what posts people seemed to be reading most often. 1100 today, and 6 or 7 of everything that was listed.
DeleteTime to ignore blogger stats clearly.
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Quality over quantity, dear Halle! And you've got quality locked up. Prost!
ReplyDeleteHumble thanks, dear Rouchswalwe. Here's to a summer filled with friends and good times. Prost!
DeleteMy stats don't change much. If there's a surge it's either because someone has linked to one of my posts somewhere (thank you!); or due to a rush of russian referrer spam (just go away!). It's been mostly the former than the latter recently :)
ReplyDeleteThe idea that the surging is caused by linkage never occurred to me. I shall investigate that as a possible explanation. That would be something I would accept of course; as you say, thank you!
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