While not giving you the power of the stats a self hosted blog would afford, the stats that WordPress.com provide are generally good enough for me
I get to know which posts are more popular than others and see how site visitors come across my page
The page views numbers also help give me an ego boost when I need it š
The numbers are usually pretty predictable. I get fewer visits at a weekend with each weekday having similar figures so I get a nice curvy line
However, I was shocked when I saw this graph last week
WTF?! Best day ever!
At the top of that spike I got more visitās on that single day than I usually get for an entire week!
What caused it? This post I made about Google Chrome towards the back end of last week. On that particular day that single post alone got about THREE times the amount of visits the entire blog does on an average day.
According to the stats itās down to the fact that I linked to a post on the official Gmail site (who obviously get a hell of a lot more visitors than my humble blog does!)
At the bottom of their post was a āblogs that link hereā section and I must have got a lot of click through’s!
Another side effect of this meant I was at the top of the WordPress āTop Growing blogsā and āTop Postsā lists for a short while which doesnāt mean a lot but made me happy for a hour
Just goes to show what a bit of hype can do!
Needless to say my āAndy is stupid and has infected his own computer with a virus though itās a worm if you want to be picky and has let everyone on Facebook know including a whole host of fellow IT pros who will probably ridicule him at tonight’s users group meetingā post didnāt quite get the same amount of visitsā¦it did get more comments though š
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