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9:48am on Monday, 1st January, 2024:
Anecdote
My annual review of my posts is its now-usual failure, as my web site host doesn't keep statistics for long enough (it just thinks it does). My blog as a whole receives around 14,000 hits per day, most of which seem to be from web crawlers looking at several thousand files each pass.
Only two blog entries in the past three months (which is how long the stats last for) made it to the top 30 reads for their month:
2nd November, 230 hits, British units https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2023/QBlog021123A.html.
26th October, 272 hits, answer to previous day's question https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2023/QBlog261023B.html.
I can believe the first one might have been shared or something, but the second one is completely arbitrary given that the question it was answering didn't make it to the top 30.
Past blog posts that made a current month's top 30, usually in more than one month, are:
MUD's 30th birthday from 2010 https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2008/QBlog201008A.html
Torture in World of Warcraft part 1 from 2008 https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2008/QBlog191108A.html
Torture in World of Warcraft part 2 from 2008 https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2008/QBlog261108A.html
The Red-Nosed Clown joke from 2010 https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2010/QBlog030510A.html
A pile of non-disclosure agreements from 2013 https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2013/QBlog220413A.html
Elsewhere on my web site, Designing Virtual Worlds https://mud.co.uk/richard/DesigningVirtualWorlds.pdf is getting over 3,000 hits every month and How to Be a God https://mud.co.uk/richard/How%20to%20Be%20a%20God.pdf is getting around 650. For comparison, my Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spadesplayer-types paper https://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm gets around 8,000 hits a month. None of this means anyone actually reads them, of course, but most will be from real people rather than from web-crawling bots.
2023 was not a good year as measured by number of living parents, dropping from two to zero in the space of six weeks. 2024 looks to be another year in which I won't be able to do much work because I've got too much work to do.
Still, none of this is going to stop me from posting to my blog. Take that, posterity!
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