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The Truth is the reason for this blog, but having an engineering background I am curious about stats.  What follows are some of the stats and my thoughts / interpretations.

 First we have the general stats such as number of followers (ie 1), posts (1967) and comments. How do I interpret these headline stats. Well, only one person finds my 'content' sufficiently interesting to actively follow the blog.  

In the 10+ years since inception, I have posted 1967 articles - some original some just things I found of interest.  There have been 431 comments.  After I implemented screening, this slowed down to 1 comment every few years.  This doesn't bother me in the least since it took time to screen the comments for spam and comments inappropriate for a religious themed blog.  The 'big' number is over 600k views - which is about 60k per year. 

Nothing compared to some, but I find it interesting.

 

 
 
 
The graph below shows the number of view and I'm not certain what triggered the spikes in 2017, but 2019 was (I believe) due to COVID.  The 2021/2022 spike is a mystery to me. The key thing is that there is a steady increase in the baseline interrupted only when I would take a break and not post for a few months.  

So interest in the blog increases.

 
 
The following chart shows the audience over the past seven days and for some reason Singapore is practically neck-and-neck with the US.  Wow, so welcome to the blog!

 
 
From an overall perspective the US has is the largest audience with Canada a distant second.  I was always curious about the Russian readership and suspect it is bots.

 
 
 
In the past seven days the two three articles have included the Novus Ordo, Obedience, a recent post and the lingering curiosity about Fr / Bishop Joseph Pfeiffer. This is actually a secondary article on Fr. Pfeiffer, the original article on the Pfeiffer garnered so much attention that it was skewing the popular posts section of the blog. So I shifted it around - yet it still regularly hits the top ten.

Finally we have the all time more popular posts on the blog.  I am impressed and happy that the Thirty Days prayer has retained its top ranking.




So the only real conclusions I can draw are that:

  1. The readership continues to increase.
  2. Timely posts on key events (wars, Voris, etc) tend to do well.
  3. A lot of the readership is on older posts - which I ascribe as people looking for answers.

So there you have it, my curiosity is satisfied, we now return to regular programming.


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