Hey all, I passed 10,000 page views last night! (as reported by TypePad.) I didn’t write about it then because the last 20 or so hits were from me finding all the links for my 4 things meme post.
Now I know that probably half of these page hits are from me looking for my own stuff as I keep trying to stitch together the various strands of my broken thoughts, but it is still cool in its own little inconsequential way.
And for those of you who get that many page hits in a day or two, just quietly go back to writing more interesting things for your blog and we’ll all keep reading and everything will be fine.
Move along now. Nothing to see here. Just ignore the little man behined the curtain ….
3 responses so far ↓
1 Angel // Feb 11, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Hey, congrats. I have no idea how many hits I may get, and have not made any effort to find out. I think I going on faith and fumes for my blogs. As always, best and keep on blogging.
2 Nick Gerakines // Feb 11, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Woot! Have you ever thought of using anything like Google Analytics for site statistics or anything?
3 Mark // Feb 12, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Hi Angel and Nick,
As I said before Angel, these numebrs really don’t mean much to me. They are completely unreliable. I only have available a limited selection of data for a very limited time, and so on. These webbish-type numbers are at least as slippery as library stats. But still, they are a teeny bit interesting.
Personally, I much prefer the incoming search strings. Besides being downright hilarious on occasion, they greatly help with my understanding of the drawbacks (and strengths) of keyword searching.
Nick, I do use Stat Counter at http://www.statcounter.com. They provide much more useful data, more of it, and for longer periods. But being a free account it is limited to the last 100 hits. And since I started using it midstream or so in the history of this blog, it is wrong on the totals. Again, just not really worth the effort to learn about and track on more than a cursory level.
And, seriously, half of those page views, just as half the comments, and most of the trackbacks, are from me. I am trying to thread my conversations and thoughts back together here.
What I’d really, really love is a good tool to do full-text keyword and phrase searching of my blog. I have resorted to searching the exported blog files with the browser, but that restricts me to contiguous words only. Sometimes I still can’t find things I know are there.