A Couple of Web Traffic Milestones for The Tattler

It's all just lights on a screen

For those of you who might care about such things, our little blog hit a couple of web traffic milestones somewhere during the middle of last night. We crossed the 1.5 million hits mark, and for the first time ever we made it to the 70,000 mark for a single month. And with 3 days to go in April, that number should easily go beyond 75,000, which is a lot for a small blog that covers the quirky governmental and political affairs of a town of less than 11,000 souls.

All of which does goes to show, there are a lot of people who are not offended by the truth, and might even prefer it over the steady diet of nothing offered by some of the other news sources in town. Despite what you've heard from those who would prefer that you not dwell on such things.

A couple of explanations about the numbers contained in the photo. The 70,276 figure is month to date, or 4/1/13 to 4/28/13 at around 1 AM. 74,710 is the numbers of hits (or pageviews) over the last 30 days. The 711 "pageviews today" figure is  from 5 PM yesterday until approximately 1 AM today. The Google platform I use is called Blogger and it is tied to Greenwich Mean Time, so the blog's day starts and ends at 5PM. The 2,228 figure is the number of hits we got on Saturday. On weekdays that number can go as high as 3,000.

One sign of the traffic growth for this site is how quickly it accumulated that last 500,000 hits. On August 25, 2012 we posted an article called "1 Million Hits" (click here), which means that we have done half of a million hits over the last 8 months. The previous one million took nearly 5 years.

It's all just numbers about data generated lights on a computer screen as they say, and as such shouldn't be taken to mean too much. But we thought we'd take a moment or two to celebrate.

OK, time to get back to work.

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