I was looking at my bloghost’s pageviews data. It’s kind of interesting, in a “meta” way. Here’s a screencapture from earlier today.
The graph shows the last 120 days of my blog, with number of “pageviews” per day (people clicking through or navigating to my blog for whatever reason). The broad rise over most of July is what I’ve taken to calling my “cancer bump” – while I was in the hospital, a lot of people who don’t regularly follow my blog began following it, and many people who do follow it, followed it more intensively or frequently. I was posting more, too, which may have increased the rate at which random strangers would have found it listed in google searches of various kinds.
But I’m much more curious about the other notable feature of the graph. What in the world happened on August 19th? That’s the most pageviews in a single day that I’ve ever gotten, by far. It’s such an outlier.
Jared! You are ALWAYS interesting (as is your blog)…it’s just that more people must have realized it on 8/19! You are doing a great job dealing with cancer and its aftermath, as you continually reinvent yourself. Hugs and positive energy from over here, Sarah & Boys
One of your posts must have been mentioned (linked to) somewhere out there with moderately heavy traffic, on 8/19. Where? And which post? I wonder.