Thursday, April 23, 2015

Stats And Pageviews

I always think it's interesting to see what my blog's up to, readership-wise.  Most times when I check, the pageviews look something like this:


Small potatoes for a professional blogger, but I'm satisfied with it.  Yesterday when I logged in I was saddened to see that the graph was almost a flat line.  I wondered what had happened to my readers until I looked at the vertical axis:


On April 14th the pageviews had increased ten-fold! 

I tried to find out where all those views came from, but Blogger was no help.  The statistics options are Today, Yesterday, and Last Month.  I guess I'll never know if it was one person who read massive amounts of my blog, or multitudes of people who stopped in for a short visit.

10 comments:

  1. I should check my stats, it's been awhile

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  2. Have you ever used StatCounter? Hubby just started to use it because Blogger sucks monkey balls.

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    1. I do have StatCounter installed! I guess I forgot to check it to see how it compares to Blogger. Thanks for the reminder.

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    2. For Tim's it doesn't match at all. Google has a flippin' up way of taking count even within their own company, things don't match.

      Odd, that.

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    3. So you're saying the spike could be wrong? I'd prefer to fantasize and think that many people DID visit :-)

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    4. I don't know about your spike but when he did StatCounter he said it was about a third off, with google showing bloated numbers.

      I dunno. It's all whack-a-do to me.

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  3. Blogger stats suck. I've got several post that Blogger says NO one has looked at. Hmmmm... then what about the comments on the blog?

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  4. I have a love/hate relationship with my blog stats. But when they are depressingly low, I have to remind myself that readers won't visit if I don't post. I'll be back in the saddle soon!

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    1. There's never enough time in the day to do everything, is there?

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