I would have been happy to finish August with barely over 20K unique visits, but I've had a meaty week or two that put me over the 30K mark, then yesterday, I had nearly 3K visitors (a bit over 2800). Today, I'm at 7K visitors and counting, and as usual, I have no clue why. Even if you subtract half that number to account for bots, 3.5K is still very impressive by my humble standards. I wish I could figure out the magic formula for high visitor numbers, but it eludes me, and it always feels so random when it happens.
UPDATE: I'm at nearly 11K visits now. Traffic has slowed down over the past couple hours, so I might not even hit 11K (I'm a bit past 10.5K), but damn, what a day, huh?
2 comments:
Yeah, it is nice to have your efforts rewarded with readers enjoying your daily smorgasbord of thoughts and insights. I know I look forward to it every morning. Maybe someone somewhere with a well-read blog links to you, causing the surge in numbers. I'll never forget an Instapundit link's impact on my page views. Only once, and only for the day, but still...
I think I got an Instalanche once, and I also got a Steven Den Beste-lanche one time. Den Beste has since died.
When I checked my blog's site meter to see where most of the hits were coming from, it obliquely reported, "google.com." Nothing more specific than that. So I remain clueless as to what really happened. Today, numbers seem normal. I'll end the day with my usual 600-ish visits.
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