I’m pleased, but surprised, to peruse my readership numbers for this month.
I more or less took the week off from blogging last week, and yet my number of page views was higher every single day than the daily average (8,171) from the month of May. Even on Saturday and Sunday, when I posted zip.
And even though I haven’t really gotten totally back up to speed this week, I’ve been gratified to see the numbers in five digits every day so far:
- Monday — 11,128
- Tuesday — 11,487
- Wednesday — 10,121
Something different has been happening lately with my blog traffic. Used to be, whenever I took a day off, there was a precipitous decline in readership, and it took days to climb out of it. Now, the dropoffs are less, and tend to be followed by periods of racheting upward. Part of it is that conversations continue over the course of several days. If I don’t post one day, y’all hardly seem to notice, as a conversation from a previous day continues at a lively pace.
This has caused me to wonder whether the classic linear blog structure, with the latest post always at the top, is the right one for this medium. But I haven’t entirely decided what should replace it.
Anyway, thanks for sticking with me, even when I slack off briefly. I’ll keep trying to be worthy of your interest.
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I wish I could track comments–If you don’t approve for a while, like [ahem] last week, when you do, many get lost if they are on a slightly less hot topic and get pushed to the bottom of the short list of recent comments.
Kathryn,
Sometimes that is not such a bad thing.
I read your blog much more regularly in the summer than during the school year. I’m probably not typical though. I agree that a way to track comments would be nice. Maybe you should have a sidebar like The State does that shows the commented on posts.
And you did it without mentioning the current Retropublican conspiracy craze, something about Obama convincing Bush to kill a border agent in order to get guns outlawed. Something like that. That’s why the AG is being held in contempt by Congress, because he won’t produce documents that prove it. Sigh.