November 02, 2006

Gauging Fame

Like many engineers, I don't necessarily like math, but I do like numbers. Numbers quantify (well, that much is obvious). But the quantification isn't always absolute. The realm of statistics is based on positing statements based on frequencies and such. The "laws" of thermodynamics aren't laws per se - they are observational statements.

Ok. So how did I get on this topic. Well, I was looking at my site statistics, and wondering - Gee, I get a lot of visitors. But why don't a majority of the people comment? What are they looking for? Are they entertained? Are they bored and never come back? - only to have others take their place. All these questions can't be answered by the numbers I see.


Unique visitors to my site jumped 72% in September, and another 22% in October. So I'm gaining viewership.





Michelle gets the honor for the most people visiting my blog after having first visited hers. Otherwise people are just Googling me.




The majority of my visitors are from the US. The others are from countries that are not part of the UN (just kidding). I'm surprised I'm that popular in the UK. I think I attribute that largely to people visiting me through Susanna's blog.


And a final pictorial of all the visitors to the blog.





Now that was a nice bit of self-indulgence! I feel two conflicting emotions. The first one is: Hey I'm not that popular as I hope I would be. The second is: Hey, I'm more popular than the content on my blog deserves!

11 comments:

Kristin said...

Maybe the fact that you are rambling about numbers makes people want to visit other websites and see something really cute, like, say, grown ladies dressed up like kittens!
ha,ha! :) Can you really tell when certain people visit your website? Because now I feel like a stalker!
And after this, will never visit again!

Kathy said...

mmmmmm interesting....

candi said...

I have a feeling this post in particular will encourage impressive amounts of visitors from now on:)

Unknown said...

Sounds good...we'll see when we can do lunch again with you guys. We'd like to get to know you guys better too. :)

Truth said...

Now you don't expect all of us can read those graphs in that itty bitty print do you? I am not a numbers person, as some in my family are, but I am still entertained by them from time-to-time.

Unknown said...

yah. um... all i know is you have more dots than i do. :)

Melany aka Supermom said...

Thanks for visiting my blog! Now you have a dot from Africa too lol

Fabio 'n Elizabeth Tsukayama said...

Interesting. How do you get all those stats? I recently got a site meter on my blog and I was surprised at how many people visit, especially considering how few comments I get! I wish more people would leave comments...
And btw, I just came here from Michelle's site. :)

Anonymous said...

hey, you're just writing this to get more comments ... and look - it worked.

I want dots ... lots of dots from countries all over the world ... how will that happen?

http://dswart.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Congrats on your webstats. I hope they continue to increase (and thanks for stopping by Laughing Daisies as well)!

Carolanne said...

And I'm your 2nd dot from Australia but I'm not from Rockdale and have no idea where that is.
Just passing by, thought I'd read, leave a comment.
I will be back!