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<\/a><\/p>\nOver the past 89 days, this blog has been visited 4,318 times \u2013 an average of about 48 unique visits per day. That\u2019s a different statistic from the much higher number \u201chits,\u201d which is recorded every time anyone \u2013 including me \u2013 visits a web page. Visits are recorded when a unique IP address spends any time on the site, and Analytics discounts any of my own visits when I\u2019m logged into Google. That means that 48 times per day, on average, one of you pulls up my blog to see what nonsense I\u2019ve written recently. The stats say you view between two and three pages every visit and spend about six and a half minutes here.<\/p>\n
Those are six and a half minutes you can never have back again.<\/p>\n
For those of you who think all these visits came from my immediate family and\/or Foodleking, who is essentially the same thing, think again. Only 17.5% of the total visits come from my home state of Utah, and the percentages are even lower for my parent’s\/siblings’\/Foodleking\u2019s home states \u2013 California (11%), Arizona (10%), and Virginia (3%). So a solid majority of you readers are people I\u2019ve never met.<\/p>\n
Case in point: Apparently, I\u2019m a big hit in Massachusetts, which is just below Utah in terms of site visits. I\u2019ve never been to Massachusetts, and while I do have relatives there, I doubt they would read this blog without medicating themselves heavily first. I\u2019ve got readers in Ohio, Idaho, Wisconsin, and a healthy contingent from the Chicago Ridge area in Illinois. (Hi, Languatron!) In fact, I\u2019ve had visits from every state in the union and the District of Columbia, except, inexplicably, the state of North Dakota, where I\u2019m pretty sure they don\u2019t have the Internet yet. (Don\u2019t get all offended \u2013 I know you\u2019re not in North Dakota, so let it go.)<\/p>\n
However, U.S. traffic only accounts for 91% of my site visit totals. 3.5% of all visits come from the UK; 3.25% from Canada, and then a scattered handful of visits from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, India, Spain, France, Turkey, The Philippines, New Zealand, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, The Sudan, The Czech Republic, Finland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Poland, Israel, China, Gibraltar, Denmark, and Hungary.<\/p>\n
I can only assume that most people stumble across this blog by mistake.<\/p>\n
This site received the most visits \u2013 110 – on Wednesday, October 24 right after I put up A Very Manly Post<\/a>, which was actually pretty stupid. The site had its smallest day \u2013 19 visits \u2013 on Saturday, October 6, right after my Aargh! Languatron Invades Real Life! <\/a>post, which I thought was better than it was. Most people visit the main page when they come, but the five pages that have gotten the most accumulated hits over time are, from most to least:<\/p>\n The Lost Art of the Crank Call<\/a> A Very Manly Post<\/a> doesn\u2019t show up until number 11. And, to spite Nigel Tufnel, my list doesn\u2019t go to 11. But my total posts now go to 101.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll keep going if you will. In fact, I\u2019ll probably keep going even if you won\u2019t. Someday, North Dakota is going to get the Internet, and I need to be ready for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OK,first 100 posts. Close enough. This is Post #101. I should have made a big deal about post #100, but I\u2019m focusing on this one because it\u2019s the beginning of the next 100. (Also, I didn\u2019t notice that the last one was #100 until today, but that\u2019s a less dramatic reason, so I\u2019m improvising.) Although ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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