The web site stats for Emerald City over the past few months have been showing in excess of 4000 visits a day and rising. I never much believed this. I figured a lot of it was robots and comment spam. All sites get crawled, of course. This one was averaging just over 100 visits a day before I opened this blog. Obviously those can visits can be discounted because nothing had happened on the site for months. Over the past few days the visits have been averaging just over 300, giving maybe 200 actual readers. I figure that’s a much fairer estimation of my readership. Or at least of people who want to read what I have to say rather than are just hoping to see another flame war. I’ve got at least 6 different countries on at least three different continents as well, which are stats I like better than 4000 readers.