A couple of months ago I logged into the Winethropology Blogger interface to add to my collection of largely unread/unreadable snippets when I saw something absolutely ridiculous. I have no idea how long this feature has been staring me in the face (and I haven't checked site statistics on Google Analytics in years), but right there in front is a handy little summary of pageviews and posts:
Since there's no comma in that number and this font is so small, I'll tell you that's over 100k pageviews. Really? Here's my theory - three things are converging to create this outlier:
Cheers!
Since there's no comma in that number and this font is so small, I'll tell you that's over 100k pageviews. Really? Here's my theory - three things are converging to create this outlier:
- Blogger uses a random prime number multiplier for daily pageviews and on a few days they used 3571. Internally they call this feature the EgoBoostNumber. Thanks, guys!
- Web-trolling bots from China and Ukraine have been misdirected and are automatically hitting the site over and over and over again. This will prove to be the downfall of their respective societies.
- You people have way too much time on your hands!
Cheers!