Five Million Views in the Dark

I just finished writing my notes for next week’s lectures and checked the blog statistics to discover that there have now been over 5,000,000 visits to this website. It’s been just over 14 years since I started blogging so that is about 360,000 hits per year on average, or just under 1000 a day. The actual daily figure varies considerably of course. It’s also worth mentioning that the number of distinct visitors is somewhat lower (just under 2 million). That means on average visitors come here about 2.5 times. On the other hand the visitor statistic probably overcounts because people may use different devices to access this site. Such details may matter to people who want to sell advertising, etc, but not to me.

I’m sure there are many blogs that get much more traffic than this one but I’m glad so many people have found things of interest here over the years, so thank you all for coming!

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