Yesterday, I had a record-breaking (for me) 68 hits here.
My monthly stats for October, excluding today (since heaven knows how busy I’ll be tonight, and all bets are off starting tomorrow) but including the Day Averdata Died, are 958. Versus a September with an (extrapolated) 686.
No, I’m under no illusion that this is some great, fabulous number. But it’s kinda cool, for me.
Peak viewing time is around 11 a.m. (MST). Lowest viewing times are, not surprisingly, between 3-4 a.m.
The plurality of viewers come directly in (either keying in the URL or, more likely, from a Favorites/Bookmarks list). The next biggest portal is Doyce’s page — and since I’m pretty certain he isn’t resetting his IP address the several times a day someone comes from his page, I assume it’s other folks visiting his page and clicking on my link. Which is weird, but I’m not going to complain.
For those who like to keep score in other arenas, 94% of visitors use some version of IE, 4% use Netscape, and the rest are AOL, Opera or Other. Which means that my viewers had no problem going to MSN earlier this week, either, right? 95% use a Windows OS. A bare majority view at 1024×768.
What will be interesting to see is how my hit count goes over the next month. With NaNoWriMo coming up, my browsing will almost certainly be cut into, which will probably mean less activity here, and will also mean less activity commenting at other pages, both of which activity definitely drives up my hit count. So we’ll see.
Anyway, I’m gratified to have been entertaining enough to draw some hundreds of readers, and to actually keep some of them. Thanks, and we’ll revisit this subject at the end of November.