Stats

     When my husband and I were first dating I learned how obsessed he was with stats. Baseball, football, basically anything that was considered a sport he knew the stats. Maybe not all of them on his less favorite sports, but he still knew plenty none-the-less. I don't know if knowing the stats makes you a better fan or what. I'm sure it gives you a better understanding of whatever game they relate to. And whatever player or team the stats belong to. He's got tons of these numbers memorized. I'm not sure how he remembers it all but he does. I really don't care to memorize them. Sure I know what they mean and stand for when they flash across the screen or I read them in the paper. But I certainly will not remember them later that day much less 20 years from now.
     Maybe it's because it's about sports. Maybe I just don't have a head for numbers. I may soon find out which it could be as I have become obsessed with my own stats. Shortly after I restarted this pretty blog of mine I explored more of what I could do with it. First I found they kept track of profile views so I was checking that number every day. Then I found a whole world of other stats they were keeping about my page. I had no idea they even exsisted. What fun. I could see how many page views I got in a day, month week and all time. I could see exactly what time someone was reading me. What countries people who hit up my page were from. And how people got to my page. So much fun.
      I've waited until now to do this post because I have finally hit 1000 pageviews. It's a big milestone so I'm quite happy about it. And the fact thats it's only been about two months is awesome! Of course I learned from my stat page that before I found it my clicks on my own page were counting towards my number of pageviews. So it may not be perfect but I have since made sure my clicks don't count so it's close. Thanks for checking me out and taking some time out of your own crazy lives to jump into mine for a bit. I really hope your enjoying it and come back to visit with me often. I would love to hear more feedback if you feel the desire to say something and have the time to do so.
     When I first started checking my stats I was surprised to see someone reading me at 3am. The more I checked the more I saw over and over at 3-4am someone was checking me out. Now I'm not sure who it is but Ii think I have a good guess. Not like it matters when you read me. I'm really glad you do no matter the time. I also am not sure if the 3am readings are actually 3am. I believe this site is actually on Pacific time, although my page is set to Eastern. Who knows really. And who cares your reading thats all that matters.
     I thought it pretty neat that I had gotten some hits from Canada, Germany, and even Denmark. Weird, but neat. As I checked out the blogger big site itself I learned hitting the next blog button can bring you anywhere. Languages I could not read would come across my screen and I'd automatically click onto the next one. Even so I'm sure now my pageview counted towards whomevers non-english blog I had just clicked onto. I don't know if there's a way for me to only jump around to other English pages. I will have to keep playing around some to see. So far I can't find a way to do it.
     Most of my pageviews seem to come from Facebook or the web address itself. No big surprise there as people I've told about it I've tried to hand them the written out web address so they could find me easier. I also have provided the link on my own Facebook page and many other peoples hoping some new ones will hit me up and check me out. I try to wait a week in between posting the link on my own page. When I haven't had a lot of pageviews in a few days I definitely find someone new to send the link to or post it myself. I'm trying to keep myself going. Knowing I have people viewing my page every day definitely keeps me at it.
     I've kept a log of my pageviews everyday since I found them. I know they'll only be kept on here for so long, so I update my own every week or so. I was able to go back to the day I first started and told people about it to see how I've done. I also look to see if there are any patterns. Do I get more readers on a certain day of the week than others? So far no. Same with lowest amount. It varies completely. I've highlighted my lowest and highest days. The first time I checked my lowest was 6 pageviews in a day, highest was 32. Since I've updated my stats and been on longer now my lowest is 3 and highest is 35. Not a big difference although that three kind of stinks. I'm happiest with double digit days and love when it hits 20's or 30's. Just makes my day.
     Now I have all these stats and I know all these stats but I haven't got them memorized. I pulled out my sheet to check as I'm writing this. It's way too much to keep in my head. They are fun to know and mean a lot to me but I'll still never know them by heart like my husband and his sports stats. I guess men also like to talk about the stats and need to know them for things like fantasy football and all that. I know my husband also prides himself in his stat knowledge so he can boast about it and know every answer to the trivia questions when they come up at Yankee Stadium. I have no doubt I contribute to it either, as I will always rib him when he does not know an answer. Anyway, who am I going to be chatting with about my stats? Umm no one. Why would anyone care but me who's reading me. That is what a blog's about right? Even if you're reading this you can just say "hey, this is boring." and click off me and never hear the rest about my stats. I guess that's a pretty big difference. No matter I'll still be here and I'll still be checking my stats every single day to make sure someone else is too.