All of this month, my site-visit numbers have been unusually low, with no 3,000-visit days. My average, this month, has been about 450 visits, which is very much on the low side (my usual average is closer to 600 per day). And now, this evening, I'm suddenly getting a spike in traffic, which leaves me wondering: where the fuck were you monkeys back when I needed you? This sudden and as-ever-random surge won't be enough to push me up to my "honorable" minimum of 20K visits per month. Maybe that's apropos given how well I did the two previous months. Over the course of a year, these stats will all average out, I'm sure.
So unless I suddenly have a 6,000-visit day today (April 30), I'll be finishing under my usual 20K minimum. Maybe May will be better. May 13 is my two-year strokiversary.
2 comments:
Is there any way to tell what is bot traffic and and what it real traffic?
Brian
It's a good question—something I discussed a while back on the blog. Some sources say a blogger can reckon that up to about 50% of his traffic is bots. That's just a rough estimate. There is a real sense in which stats don't actually matter that much—both in terms of the raw math and in terms of whatever "prestige" one thinks one is getting from the traffic. Of course, it's not merely a problem for bloggers: bots clog up everyone's stats.
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