Hits

So, what I think ACD's methodology shows is that a smallish group of bloggers links to me often enough to get me up up up in his standings. The other interesting measurement, of course, is hits. See my previous postings for his reasons that this can't be reliably compared.

But I thought I'd put out what I do know about my hits. Now, I do not use Google Analytics , which is incredibly complicated and geared for users of AdWords and AdSense. (Maybe I shouldn't admit that in public, or maybe I should go install it.) I don't even use the paid version of SiteMeter, so I get comparatively stripped-down statistical information.

In a good week, I get up to 140 hits, with maybe 175 or 200 page views. Sometimes that sinks down to 85 to 100 hits per week, if I'm not blogging much. The free version of SiteMeter doesn't seem to provide a count of unique visitors, which I would take to mean unique originating IP addresses.

Alex Ross posted some time ago - maybe it's in the About info at Noise - that he gets 2,000 hits per day. Matthew Guerrierri and Opera Chic have both posted information indicated readerships far larger than mine.

You can see why I'm skeptical about being listed as no. 12.

Here's the latest report from SiteMeter; there'll be a new one tomorrow:

                    -- Site Summary ---                  
       Visits

         Total ....................... 54,384         
         Average per Day ................. 99         
         Average Visit Length .......... 1:13         
         This Week ...................... 692         

       Page Views

         Total ....................... 75,135         
         Average per Day ................ 130         
         Average per Visit .............. 1.3         
         This Week ...................... 911         



               --- Visits this Week ---               
    Day
Hour  3/20   3/21   3/22   3/23   3/24   3/25   3/26   Total
---- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
1       3      3      0      0      3      1      1      11
2       3      2      1      1      1      2      2      12
3       3      1      2      1      2      1      1      11
4       0      0      0      2      1      0      2       5
5       3      1      2      1      2      1      2      12
6       2      2      3      1      0      6      2      16
7       2      3      6      2      4      5      5      27
8       7      7      3      4      4      4      8      37
9       6      6      6      5      7      6      7      43
10      10      5      6      4      6      8      9      48
11       7      3      5      6      7      8      6      42
12       1      4      4      9      8      7      4      37
13       6      6      2      7      8      4      8      41
14       2      3      3      2      7      6      7      30
15       4      5      5      1      4      1      6      26
16      10     11      4      4      3      5      3      40
17       4      9      4      4      7      7      6      41
18       5      2      2      7      8      6      6      36
19       6      4      7      3      8      3      5      36
20       5      3      3      5      2      4      9      31
21       7      7      2      3      2     14      9      44
22       3      0      2      1      3      3      4      16
23       5      5      1      3      2      4      5      25
24       0      2      5      4      3      6      5      25
 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
    104     94     78     80    102    112    122     692


             --- Page Views this Week ---             
    Day
Hour  3/20   3/21   3/22   3/23   3/24   3/25   3/26   Total
---- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
1       3      4      0      0      3      1      2      13
2       4      6      1      1      1      3      2      18
3       4      1      3      1      2      4      1      16
4       0      0      0      2      1      0      2       5
5       4      1      5      1      2      1      2      16
6       4      3      4      1      0      9      2      23
7       2      6     14      2      4      5      7      40
8       9      7      5      5      4      4     10      44
9       8     10      9      8      8      8     10      61
10      11      5      6      5      6     10     10      53
11      10      3     12      9      8      9      9      60
12       1      8      5     11     10     10      9      54
13       7      8      2      7     11      4     18      57
14       2      4      3      2      7      6      8      32
15       4      7      6      1      4      1      7      30
16      14     12      6      4      3      8      4      51
17       6     25      5      5     11     12      8      72
18      11      3      2      8      8     11      6      49
19       7      4      8      3     10      4      7      43
20       5      3      4      6      3      5     13      39
21       7      7      5      3      2     17      9      50
22       3      0      3      1      3      3      7      20
23      10      6      1      3      2      6      5      33
24       0      2      5      7      3      7      8      32
 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
    136    135    114     96    116    148    166     911