So, I’m a little obsessed with blog stats. If I type the letter o into the address bar of my web browser, the stats page for this blog is the first website listed in the automatic fill-in. I even made a new definition and did it to myself. But now two days in a row, I we (since Susan had a post today) have had record traffic.
While we’ve had a larger than normal number of referrers (mostly due to comments I’ve left on other blogs and WFMW), it only accounts for 1/5 of the page views. So either all those people decided to read our entire blog (hope you enjoyed it) or a lot more people are coming in via bookmarks. That or someone keeps checking 50 times a day to see if we have new content. To you I say, “Get a feed reader and stop messing with my mind.”
January 11, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I originally came here from WFMW, I use FireFox and LOVE the help! I’m not very computer literate!!! I still have my Christmas theme up, I guess its time to find a new one!
I do have you on my feed reader, and I enjoy reading your blog! I’ve got 3 kids also!
January 11, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Brian, don’t you think it’s partly all the comments you left over at my Ethiopia blog? it’s been hoppin’ over there lately….
Mary
January 12, 2007 at 7:24 am
Yes, I have had more links in because of those comments, but as I said, it only accounts for 1/5th of the traffic. I’m fairly certain the stats above are actually page views, so it’s possible that people are coming via the links in the comments and then reading a lot of pages. As you know, WordPress gives you stats for individual posts, but they don’t account for someone reading a lot of posts on a certain tag or reading by clicking on the archives (months) links. So there’s no way to know if the extra page views are new people reading old stuff or old people checking the front page for new stuff (and not finding it, but coming back a little later and visiting the front page again).