My statistics are vital
Cats: Uncategorized|And until a few minutes ago, they’ve been down.
For a blogger, this is like unhooking life support. Our stats are our lifeblood, and those who say they don’t look at their stats are the same people who would tell you they buy Penthouse Magazine for the thousand-word articles, not the pictures.
Not sure what the problem was, but all my plugins went down, and I’ve been busy with too much work to investigate.
Having no vital statistics is a cruel reminder of how much we bloggers depend on hits. It keeps us going.
I have two stats programs. One gives basic hit counts, times and locations. The other provides more detail on bots, spammers and spiders. My stats indicate IP numbers but do not identify who the hitters are. So fear not, hitters. I do not know who you are.
About half my hits are coming from IPs registered in Toronto. (I heart TO!) A quarter come from Halifax (I heart Halifax 2) and the rest from everywhere else in the world.
Non-Toronto regulars include Utah, who checks every day at 11am. There’s also the one from William’s Lake BC, a couple of hitters in New York, and a gaggle of regulars registered in London, UK. Semi-regulars include IPs from Uzbekistan, Auckland, and Lima Peru. Semi-semi regulars include Houston, Sao Paulo and Rome.
It’s oddly reassuring to see the same IP numbers show up daily, and sometimes more than once a day. I don’t who they are, but I feel a great fondness for those numbers. They are the fuel for my fire. And the fire went out, cutting GT adrift.
But I’ve lit the match and got the flame roaring again. So please hit and hit often. You are my reason for typing.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:11 am
And the Northwest Territories!
Well, I usually read you through a reader, but I do it every day. Does that help?
I know, I know, feed readers suck. I loathe myself even as I thank Google for pulling everything into one screen.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:54 am
And Yellowknife!
And I do see hits coming from yellowknife through a Google feed read.
That should teach those people who thought we were the same person on NGB!
November 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Yes, they are part of the whole deal - though I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad part. Since I’ve started to post again after my little lapse, one of the things I’ve noticed is the need to check out the stats a couple of times a day (after all, it’s so easy…)
And I wonder if this isn’t a bad thing in a way, a little too much Sally Field “do they like me?”
But maybe that’s just me…
November 29th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Sadly, it’s not just you, TB, we’re a needy bunch, us bloggers. But look at this this way, there are worse ways of satisfying your neediness than by checking your stats a couple of times a day.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I love checking my stats counter occasionally too. It is comforting to see those familiar places on there, but it’s especially cool to see some far flung places appear. You know, places where you didn’t even know they had the internet!
December 8th, 2007 at 7:26 am
PLease do not fart while relighting the fire.