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The Year in Review
I’m fascinated by site statistics, even though they tend to be as accurate as my twenty-meter circles. Which is to say: they try hard, but…. Still–you learn all sorts of interesting but not very useful information when you look at site statistics.
For example, since I started this blog, 1300 people have visited nearly 3600 times with over 5000 page views (not counting my own visits here, because they needlessly inflate the numbers, or spiders/crawlers, because they aren’t really visits). My stats program estimates nearly 900 added me to their favorites. Wow. I feel very popular. And humbled.
Tuesday is apparently the most popular day to visit this site. Why? Please: if you’re a Tuesday visitor, enlighten me! What’s so cool about Tuesdays?!
Three people tried to get into forbidden directories. Bad people! A girl likes to keep some things private. On the other hand, apparently 11 documents were “not acceptable to client.” Well, I can’t blame you there. I don’t find myself acceptable sometimes.
Visitors have come from 35 different countries, with the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands leading the way. The Netherlands? Really? Y’all have good beer there. Send me some?
The most popular search topics for this site are related to ribbon quilts, but unexpected search topics include: “highwaywoman fancy dress” (Halloween, I supose), “what is fashionable attire” (if I knew that, I wouldn’t be wearing grandma pants and a hoodie right now, would I?), “old lady x” (Hey! I’m twenty-something! That’s not old!), “i need a dressage sponsor!!!” (me too!!!), and possibly my favorite WTH search: “kitty humpback.” Uh… did I write about humpbacked kitties at some point?
And, just for fun, the top ten posts:
- How To Make a Ribbon Quilt
- Ribbon Quilts–The Finished Products
- So, the whole riding thing
- Typical Dressage Test
- After a year, I lead a horse ten steps
- Per Request: Books on Dressage
- Sponsor a Dressage Rider
- I need some crafty help
- Bottoms Up!
- The Anti-One Person Horse
I honestly don’t know what sort of traffic other blogs get, but I will say that in the past five months this blog has already reached about the same traffic level as my other blog, which has been around for over two years. I’m not sure what that says about the quality of my other blog, but I’m thrilled this one has taken off so well.
So thank you, to all my readers. I feel all warm and fuzzy every time I look at my stats and realize I’m not blogging in a void.
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On Jan 3, 2007, Learninghorses (Jerri) said:
Fantastic! I love site stats as well. Keep up the good work and we will keep up the good reading!