3 million

by | Aug 1, 2024


Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity almost 3 years ago I hit the 2 million view mark on the blog, which had previously taken 5 years to go from 1 to 2 million and 6 to make the first million! But what does it all mean? Not much if I'm honest. I've said it many times before that I don't covet views, hits or followers. I mark them as a milestone but I don't use them as a measure. In particular the blogger hit counter is getting data from somewhere that never actually correlates with my Google Analytics. I think it counts web crawlers and all sorts so I don't think this number is a true reflection of how many people are visiting the site. But, the number exists, so I have to acknowledge it, even if I don't agree with it. 

That said my comments are nearly at 6,000, which is a number I can get behind because that's people taking time to talk about the hobby and my efforts within it. I try to respond but I keep finding posts from way back when I didn't [which I should rectify] so it's probably about 3,000 messages from people that are genuine [my spam thankfully is not included in that number, currently at 220].

Interestingly though the 3 million hits has had a massive boost in the past few months. I don't know what's changed but the increase in traffic has been insane - I've had over 180,000 this last month alone! That's nearly triple the highest I'd ever received, which was 63,000 in March this year. Previously the highest was nearly 59,000 in September 2023. But you can see below the last year were pretty solid [apart from May, but even that was 18,000] before it's just gone through the roof this month


I'm going to put it down to adding more search descriptions. If it's bots and web crawlers than I suspect they help a lot. At the end of the day I've no idea what it means. It's a stat I get, I note it and I move on. But within those numbers there are real people still coming to the blog, and if you're one of them then I thank you for sticking with me.