Saturday, September 30, 2023

so I finish the month with a whimper after 90% bang

I've been at the office for a couple hours, eating chili hot-dog leftovers, apple pie, and chocolate pie. (I'm at the office to get a head start on some proofreading.) My site-visit stats, all month, were mostly above the 2K/day mark, but over the last week, right before this attempted "test" walk and up to now, visits have plummeted to under 300 per day.

9/24: 1852 views
9/25: 1728 views
9/26: 1725 views
9/27: 1086 views
9/28: 930 views
9/29: 330 views
9/30 (today so far): 170 views

It's a bit like watching the Wicked Witch of the West shrinking and shriveling after she gets water thrown on her: Oh, what a world! What a world!

No matter: September has been a banner month at over 69.5K views (I don't think we're going to make 70K). I can't remember the last time my stats were up that high, but I suspect October is going to be pretty meager, stats-wise, especially once I start the walk in earnest. I might be finishing the current month on a quiet note, but this was a hell of a ride.

I'll be leaving the office around 9:30 p.m. Sunday will be devoted to rest and writing a movie review or two, to be schedule-posted during the walk while I'm gone and blogging elsewhere.



2 comments:

  1. Not sure how granular blogspot stats are, but does it show you the duration of each visit?

    The hosting company for my domain shows length of each visit (o-30 sec, 30 sec - 2 min, 2 min - 5 min, etc.).

    Since my webpage is not active, 99% of the visits are 30 sec or less, obviously spiders or bots.

    Brian

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  2. Blogspot's site meter doesn't include "stickiness" stats. I'd like to see those myself. Back when I used SiteMeter to track stats, I think my stickiness average was around two minutes. But that was years ago.

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