Thanks for coming, gang. Plus links.
Ever since daily visitors to this site hit four figures a few months back, I’ve had this ambition to have at leat one 30 day period when that happens, 1000 or more hits a day for a month. I came close in March but, as before, didn’t quite get over the hump. Usually a Saturday or Sunday does me in and the number slides back to the 900s.
Website stats are a bit like income stats, nobody likes to talk about them, and I’m sure my numbers are nothing compared to the big boys in this game, but with this site now on a pace of over 3 million hits and 450,000 visitors for the year, I have to admit that I’m impressed. I’m old enough to remember when that sort of readership was pretty much unimaginable for a self-published project of any sort, let along a rambling chronicle of personal adventures and opinions.
In short, thanks a whole bunch, folks. You make it worth the effort and then some.
I suspect this will be one of those Sundays that does me in since it’s too nice a day to work at a desk, no matter how much fun that can be. I have some serious thoughts on session beers, extreme beers (shall the twain ne’er meet?) and the forthcoming Beer Wars movie, but that can wait for another day.
Meanwhile, to keep you amused if not necessarily informed, I posted a new Buddy Dogg report for them as are interested (with photos!), as well as the link to a memorable Joe Cocker Woodstock moment rendered hilarious with inspired captions (this one courtesy of our favorite elderly spammer) over at Mermaids Singing this morning. Also, a new Outside Looking In cartoon went up there late yesterday.
Also up this morning is another cartoon memory at The Dubya Chronicles, where we are looking back at the eight-year disaster of the Worst. President. Ever. Today’s reprint is from September 9, 2001 and it includes a sadly ironic comment by our cartoon figurehead, Our Guy, which recalls just where our president was when all the forewarnings of 9/11 were being ignored.
Enjoy.
If I visit more than once a day does that show in the totals or are those 1,000 peoples all different visitors? I do not know how this stuff works so of course I am asking you.
Congrats and thanks for the oodles of good daily reading!
Curious as to how RSS feeders contribute to the stats. Any ideas? Does it count as a hit when I actually click on the link in my Google Reader, or when I mark a post as read?
I assume each visit is counted so it’s not 1000 people, it’s a thousand hits. I find it all confusing as well.
I don’t know about RSS feeds either. If you have to go to the site, it would seem they’re not counted but there could be some way that the # of people signed up for a feed is automatically part of the total.