08 December 2005

Hits and not so popular sites.

As a blogger much of my time is spent pouring over my stats, fretting over the numbers of readers as they wooble about the 20 mark. So I found it very heartening to read in the Guardian technology section today that some government sites hardly get any hits whatsoever with one getting a measly 77 hits all year. That made me feel a whole lot better, I'm more popular than the government :-D Full article here.

5 comments:

  1. Interesting, hon. If nobody read your blog, would you stop? If not, does the number then really matter? Immortality doesn't require an observer, after all!

    Hugs! Gemma xxx

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  2. Hi Gemma,

    Interesting point you made.

    If noboby read my blog it would matter, because part of having it is to entertain others and interact with them. The numbers do matter I suppose because it is the only real measure I have of how well I'm doing. The numbers that really count are the returning visitors and that is staying steady and I suppose I'm doing well really.

    If it didn't matter why put it on line?

    :-) Jane

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  3. What do you use for your site stats, may I ask? Do blogspot give you proper stats?

    I must admit my reasons for blogging are different than yours, and in fact, I wrote what would now be called blogging software for myself (because I have a very bad memory) way back in the depths of 98 or so...

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  4. Hi ST, Blogger doesn't include hit counters in their templates so I've stuck the code from a couple of free hit counters into the template myself.
    I use a combination of site meter and stat counter for my stats. Site meter I think is more accurate but stat counter presents the details in an user friendly manner.

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  5. More popular than the government... a goal we should all aspire to! :) I'm glad to see you set easy hurdles for yourself! :) :) :)

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