Web Stats

I’ve been checking with all the stats programs that come with my website to see where people are coming from- and how surprised was I to find visitors coming from as far away as Singapore, Italy, France, Netherlands, Brazil and even Sudan. According to the charts I’ve gotten over 19,000 hits this month and 51,000 in August, a whopping rise from the 5046 in January. The reason for this, I think, is because I switched to WordPress, which makes it easier to find the site in search engines.

This means one thing, though, and that is only about 1 in every 5000 visitors leaves a comment. I realize that when I go to or read a blog, I myself rarely leave a comment simply because I don’t know what to comment on! An interesting remedy which was created by Xanga was the idea of eProps, which are points you can give with or instead of a comment, one or two depending on how good the post was- this system works well when you don’t know what to say.

Here’s some of my stats. One of these is monthly and the other I think is just a certain block of time. Click to see them bigger:

For the comment box…all you fellow bloggers, do you ever check your stats and have the same problem with one out of 1000 commenting?

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[--Added Later-- I suppose this is why people like Meg C and Rick Riordan turn off commenting on their sites, since it makes it look like no one's visiting -- ]