In the Dark

Here we are then, in 2019. I’ve been vegetating most of the day but now, before I try to figure out which assortment of bins to put out for tomorrow, I thought I’d do a quick blog about this blog.

Once upon a time, in the good old days, in the dim and distant past, WordPress used to publish an annual statistical summary page for its bloggers, but it has discontinued that practice so now I’ll just write my own brief summary based on the data available via the usual dashboard.

For those interested I got about 425K hits this year, just over 1160 a day, with about 221K unique views. That’s up a bit since last year. In fact 2018 has been the busiest year on here since 2014. Interestingly, a much larger proportion of traffic was from the USA in 2018 than in any previous year.

In 2018 there were 2625 comments on this blog, similar to 2017. No prizes for guessing who wrote the most comments. Posts received 1153 ‘likes’ during the course of the year.

Altogether, since this blog started in 2008 to the end of 2018, it has been viewed 3,795,323 times by a total of 1, 315,185 unique visitors (though, obviously, all my visitors are unique). On this basis I’d expect my 4,000,000th read sometime during 2019.

It just remains for me to pass on a message from my employer.

I’ll be back at work on Friday!

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