Thursday, 23 February 2017

Errant numbers

So I noticed in early February that I started getting a lot of new hits on this blog.  I would like to think that I have suddenly gotten popular, but I look at the hits in detail and they seem to be from just one person.  It is like they opened thirty pages of my blog and shut down their computer and restarted it, refreshing my blog every-time, creating thirty hits every time.  Five times a day.  

I like watching the count.  I hope that each hit is someone reading my blog.  I hope someone is getting something out of it.  I hope that it is someone who wants to play in my games.  Maybe a fellow Story Teller.  Maybe someone with Autism.  Perhaps someone who likes the way I write.  I like to see if this month I will get more than the other months.  I like to look at the graphs and see how many viewers from other countries.  I like to try to see a general trend of the numbers.  

I have figured out a few things, the more posts I have, the more hits I get per month.  But then someone does this.  But really I can't complain.  I have benefited before, like when one post had 40 hits and I wanted it behind me and not on my blog.  I deleted it twice, but felt it disingenuous to do that so returned it.  Then someone opened "Uneasy Rider" and refreshed for a month and pushed that one off.  I was happy.  

My previous monthly high was about 750 or so.  Right now this month I have 2675.  Roughly equal to the number of hits I got in my first two years blogging.  There is almost a week left in e month.  Will I hit 3000?

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