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A blog traffic update

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I haven't looked at the traffic on my blog for a long time, but tonight I got curious. After a bit of fiddling around, I came across this:

What happened in August? And it's even stranger than it seems. Traffic didn't drop off a cliff on a single day, but gradually over a week:

  • Monday, August 21: 37,000
  • Tuesday, August 22: 33,000
  • Wednesday, August 23: 26,000
  • Thursday, August 24: 15,000
  • Friday, August 25: 7,000

This is obviously a reporting artifact of some kind, but what? And which count was more accurate, the old one or the newer one? It's mysterious.

Here is traffic over the past month by country for countries with more than 350 visitors:

I'm surprised that the US isn't the winner by a far greater margin. And I sure seem to have a lot of fans in Singapore! Unless it's just one guy who refreshes a lot.

24 thoughts on “A blog traffic update”

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  2. KawSunflower

    I think that you owe your fans in Singapore a visit, Mr. Drum, if only to learn how they learned of jabberwocking.

  4. WhoWhatWhere

    Singapore is a big VPN connection point (offering some of the the most stable and speediest of connections) for people in various SE Asia countries, especially those in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Expats in these places often use VPNs.

      1. Art Eclectic

        That's that I was thinking as well. When I see big drops like that it's almost always related some kind of algorithm change. Eventually, there will be another one and the traffic will mysteriously go up.

  7. Tom Hamill

    Interesting in that if it's a search algorithm update, that this indicates most come to your site randomly rather than systematically. FWIW, I have you bookmarked and check regularly b/c I have come to expect interesting content (thanks). - Tom

    2. ddoubleday

      Kevin has an RSS feed. No need to check regularly, just use a feed reader to notify you of his updates.

      It is depressing that so few people use RSS these days. No money in it, I guess.

      1. illilillili

        Kevin is a sufficiently regular blogger that it suffices to just refresh his blog page when one is ready to read the content.

      2. geordie

        Agreed. I wish Google had kept Reader around. The loss of that killed any momentum RSS had. I also think it was a bad move on Google's part. They lost insight into what people read regularly which seems like a key metric for any kind of real SEO.

      4. jonziegler

        Yeah, I'm reading using Feedly. Does that actually get seen in the stats as a visit to the blog?

        Of course I sometimes actually show up here, e.g for writing this comment.

  9. ddoubleday

    Maybe I'm not doing something right, but it is hard to engage in the discussion in comments because I have no way to know if somebody responded to me.

    WP used to have a way to tell me about responses (though it seemed to work imperfectly), but that seems to have disappeared. Maybe it disappeared in August?

  10. Narsham

    So out of every 1 MILLION visits to your site, 138 are from the US? Does that mean the overwhelming majority provide no location information, or that you've mislabeled something on this chart?

  11. starbird2005

    If you switched to GA4 from Universal Google Analytics, everyone is seeing a drop because GA4 counts events differently to UGA. Although that's not very helpful trying to explain this to advertisers.

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