Web stats are weird and wonderful things. Visitors come, visitors go, and often it isn’t clear why. When I got to strut my stuff on Whatever around 300 people dropped in here to see what I do. Almost none of them came back the next day. The mention of the DSM petition on Making Light brought around 500 people here. Looking at the stats, it seems like 50 or so might have stuck around. Or it might be that the effect of the spike has been spread over several days. I don’t know. And I’m not going to worry about it much. This is never going to be a high-traffic blog, and if I wanted it to be one I certainly wouldn’t be writing about cricket so much. On the other hand, if you did come here from Patrick’s link and are planning on sticking around, it would be nice to know. You can look on this post as a blog equivalent of that thing people do on LiveJournal where they say, “a whole bunch of people have just friended me, please introduce yourselves.”
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Well I came here from Whatever, and I’ve stuck around. For what it’s worth, I like the cricket posts 🙂
Why thank you!
Although I see from your blog that you live in Lancashire so I’d be deeply disappointed if you didn’t like the cricket posts. I hope we are going to get some decent weather out of Old Trafford for the test match, and not a wash-out like what happened when Somerset came to visit. 🙂
I came from Whatever and I’m still here, but as I get the blog through an RSS feed reader, I have no idea whether that shows up in your stats.
As I understand it, El, I only get information on Google Analytics if someone actually visits my site. If they read a post through RSS syndication then it doesn’t count. Of course the syndicators themselves keep count. I know, for example, that 35 people are subscribed to this blog via Google Reader (as compared to 1454 for Whatever). But that doesn’t count people who might be subscribed via Bloglines, via any other online aggregator, or via a stand-alone RSS reader program. Also I can’t get historical data on that, so unless I check the number each day and record it I won’t know how it changes and what might have brought people in.
Still, it is great to know that some of you Whatever readers are sticking around. Thank you!