I was checking for comments that might have gone into the Spam folder yesterday after writing a blog post ... happily less and less 'proper' comments are ending up in Spam these days ... while I was rootling around I decided to have a look at my blog statistics. It made for fascinating reading.
While 44 people at that time were reading the current post, a grand total of 333 people were reading various posts on the blog at the same time, and from all over the world. Interestingly someone was reading their way through Blogmas 2024, at the same time as five people catching up on the previous days post. One person was reading about my challenge last year of living on £100 a month for all my shopping and one person was reading the very first post of this blog.
I like doing this occasionally but it can be dangerous, as I tend to click on the posts that someone is reading to see what they are reading about and how wildly I rambled on and on at the time, and I usually end up losing an hour or more down a rabbit-hole of my own making.
If you're a blogger have you checked your stats recently?
Sue xx
I do very occasionally. I hadn't realised you could see if your posts were actually being read at that moment, fascinating. I shall investigate. And I haven't checked my spam for ages!
ReplyDeleteI do check my stats, occasionally. But, you get more detailed stats than I do, I think.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the reminder about perfection being an illusion. I need to remember that.
I do look now and again when checking for comments going into spam - just recently it's been proper spam or my own replies in there - and like you say often have to look to see what people are reading right now - although actually the right now is really over the last two hours and I'm not sure I believe that so many people can be looking at one very old post at the same time, when there are 2500 post to look at! A real rabbit hole to look down!
ReplyDeleteHah - never. Not enough hour in the day as it is! Your stats sound more detailed than mine ever were anyway.
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