Who the hell are you people?
OK, at the prompting of Liz, (who as I said before, has all the good blog ideas) I actually looked at my access logs for the past couple of weeks.
Oh. My. Lord.
I estimated my readership at 8. Heck, I could name them: Bobby, Teresa, Heidi, Jennifer, Liz, Alan, Lisa and me. 8 people. Including me. And I rarely visit my own site, as I am already pretty familiar with what I have written. Alan visits rarely. As do Bobby and Teresa. Comments, as rare as they are, get e-mailed to me.
I expected that my logs would reflect this prediction. I thought that my prediction was accurate.
All I have to say now is, â??Who in the hell are all you people?â?
Last week alone, my site had 12,521 hits, for a total of 1,645 page impressions. Now, let’s erase some of those numbers… I host a message board for a group of friends who I play an online game with. So I figured that 99% of that traffic was them. There are about 20 registered users of the message board.
But wait… I had 188 unique visitors last WEEK. And 50 of those people visited more than once. That number is WAY higher than the 20 registered users on my message board.
So, maybe people are finding me through search engines… after all, some of my stuff probably indexes well. â??Classic BMW sucksâ? and my religion stuff (a new one coming, by the way, I’m almost finished with it) I figure gets traffic from Google.
So, again I say, â??Who are you?!?!â? Drop a comment to say hello. I am about to post several open ended, thought provoking entries that you may want to respond to. Heck, just drop me an e-mail to say hello. I’m genuinely curious as to who is reading this stuff… and more than a little creeped out, too. 
OK, I am testing to make sure the comments actually work.
Because it looks from the logs like a lot of people tried and failed.
If you see this, then it worked, and you should drop me a line and say, “Hello”
I’m one of your dedicated readers — I stop by almost daily as part of my morning Web rounds!
I got here because I’m looking for the site that sells overstock and used computer parts. I forget the name so I was trying URLs. I assume that’s why most of the people are hitting your site. I mean, there isn’t a whole lot of content here…
Well, I’m glad you stopped by, even if you are not all that impressed (and will likely not come back to see this)
Oh well.
Luckily for me, you are wrong. Whoever is coming, they are staying and reading (or at least that’s what the stats say). So I doubt that it is a fumbled URL.
A lot of it is the message board, but the remainder is still way more than the 8 people I thought were reading.
I couldn’t claim to check your entries daily, but I’d consider myself a “regular” visitor. How about some more of your great photography?
Hi Sandra!
You know what? I was out this weekend taking pics with my new camera. (I have run about 600 frames through it already. I got some good ones this weekend, and I will post them soon!