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Those of a shameless quality would probably note the occasion when a blog had attracted a quarter of a million unique visitors. Never fear, dear reader, I am cut from a nobler cloth and such a crass thought would never cross my mind!

27 Responses to “Nobody mention the blog stats!”

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    Joy says:

    Congratulations to Peter, Kate, David and Scott for making this blog worthy of being visited by 251,000+ people in its short 17 month existence! (And, yes, all of us who visit or frequent this blog like to think of ourselves as unique… quite special really…)

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    joseph says:

    Peter, I am certain that my blockbuster post series on the relationship between Roman law and Virgil’s notions of Fate in the Aeneid will have them flocking to my blog non-stop, and I will quickly catch up.
    blessings,
    :^)

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    churchgirl says:

    Is that 250,000 visits to the blog or 250,000 different individuals?

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    Pauline says:

    Congratulations and thanks for all you do.

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    Winter Traveler says:

    Well done. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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    Steve L.- says:

    #3 C-girl
    Unique as in different IP addresses or domains. Click on the view stats, right side towards bottom to see what is tracked. You won’t see the actual numbers since you’re not the administrator

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    Bill in Ottawa says:

    It is likely a somewhat different number of people. Home computers shared between family members would mean more than one reader per address. People who check the blog at work or the library and at home would increase the number of addresses per person.

    David’s trip to Europe must have increased the stats by some considerable amount. :-)

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    David says:

    Bill [#7]
    David’s trip to Europe must have increased the stats by some considerable amount.

    Not at all, I exercised gracious restraint.

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    Peter says:

    #8 Rotfl

    #2 I like the series, I really do :-) Can’t say I’ve read all of it though!

    #3 Here’s something on unique visitors:

    What is a unique visitor? A unique visitor is based purely on a cookie with a session time. Basically the first time someone visits your website they are considered a unique visitor. Then a tiny cookie with no personally identifiable information (just your project id and a simple variable) is created.

    If that visitor session stays active, by them visiting your website again and again before the session time expires then they won’t be counted as a unique visitor again. But if the session time has expired, they are counted as a unique visitor again and a new session is created. And it starts all over again.

    I’m not sure of the details of how GoStats works, but we are not talking about 250,000 unique individuals, but 250,000 significantly separate visits from different computers over this time. Does that make sense? If not, just remember the quote from Disraeli “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

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    David says:

    Some complicating factors are:

    Some people don’t like cookies, so they regularly clean them out with something like CCleaner.

    And, for most ISPs, a home user’s IP address isn’t static, it would be obtained from the ISP’s DHCP server and can change – although mine seems to remain the same for quite a few months.

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    Gerry O'Brien says:

    Don’t give a darn about all the different whodunits, but a quarter million visitors is really significant and it tells us that this blog is being watched by more than the 100 or so odd contributors who are consistently blogging. well done to the Admin team indeed.

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    Warren says:

    I’m one of those who runs CCleaner every couple of days. I guess I’m inflating the statistics.

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    Gordon Arthur says:

    I have firefox set to delete all cookies every time I close it, so I’m definitely inflating them.

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    Jack (Vancouver) says:

    I can’t remember what happened an hour ago, let alone a day ago.
    So each time I revisit this site, should I be counted as a unique visitor?

    Incidentally, I have noticed that someone using my name often makes some really dumb comments! :)

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    Peter says:

    #13 and #14, should I change the post to read “we have a thousand unique visitors and Warren / Gordon who seem to have made us their homepage”? :-P ;-)

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    Peter says:

    #15 Not necessarily, depends on how long you go away for. Note Disraeli comment above!

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    Pageantmaster says:

    Greetings from Blighty.

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    Gordon Arthur says:

    Peter [#16], no, I don’t spend all my time here.
    :-D

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    churchgirl says:

    #15 Someone called themselves churchboy. I have absolutely no idea who that is, and it sure isn’t my husband!

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    Warren says:

    Peter (#16), I resemble that remark.

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    Steve L.- says:

    #15 We can solve that problem but we, all of us, will have to come to your house for a week or two, no charge, just tea, pizza and warm beds.

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    Jack (Vancouver) says:

    Steve (#22):
    Why did I not think of that!!
    What about coming Feb. 12 – 28, 2010. (it will be just like sardines but without the oil) :)

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    Kate says:

    Vancouver in February? Isn’t it awfully rainy then? That’s when those braggarts in Victoria do the “blossom count” while the rest of us are still freezing, right? Maybe that isn’t such a bad idea after all….

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    ML says:

    Congratulations! I visit this site pretty well every day to keep up to date on the latest happenings. And you are actually my second homepage. It was faster than using the programmable buttons on my keyboard!

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    Gordon Arthur says:

    It’s always rainy on the West Coast, that’s why it’s called Raincouver.
    :-D

    I’m surprised anyone’s offering free lodgings during the Olympics, though…

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    Kate says:

    Oh. That’s the significance of the dates..

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