When I first began this blogging lark, I cared not a whiff for my blog's vital statistics. This is probably because eighteen years ago there were no blog stats to peruse.
Blog visitors who choose not to publish their own blogs will probably be unaware that behind the scenes every blogger can check out a range of statistics. There are even associated graphs. For example you can find out how many "hits" each blogpost has received. You can see lists of your most viewed blogposts in the last twenty four hours, the last week, the last month, the last year and throughout the life of the blog.
You can see how many comments each blogpost has received. I am not obsessed with these stats but I do occasionally glance at them - just because they are there. Perhaps this makes me a sad old git - I don't know.
Some bloggers are very prolific - churning out over 365 blogposts a year while some others might only post monthly. 2022 was my most prolific year because I published 345 blogposts in those twelve months. This year I wanted to surpass that number and I am happy to report that as 2023 dwindles away, this is my 353rd blogpost of the year. Back in 2005, when "Yorkshire Pudding" began, I only published 42 posts.
Another goal I wanted to achieve was an average of over 200 visits for each post and this has been achieved too. I know there are much more popular blogs than mine but I find it pretty motivating to get 200+ visits every time. They are visits from around this country and around the world but with 89% of my visits now coming from The United States. It used to be that 40% of my visitors came from The States, around 40% from Great Britain and the other 20% from the rest of the world but things have changed.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my regular readers. It is an honour that you come here to check out what I have written and observe the imagery that accompanies my posts - including photographs I have taken.
Another feature of blogging stats is "Followers". Now I have never investigated this phenomenon and nor have I striven in any way at all to achieve more followers. In fact I don't know what it is all about but I note with some curiosity that I currently have 58 "followers". Whoever you are, welcome to my party!
Onward to 2024 - but before then - the annual Laughing Horse Blogging Awards
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