So as part of my scintillating job as a Web site editor, I get to examine fun web traffic reports. Like any editor I try to find good stories to promote, hope that a lot of people read the story, and then try to repeat this over and over again. I check traffic reports at work on a daily basis to see if we are succeeding. I had yet to visit the Web statistics of this blog until today, so I thought I’d report on it.

Total “hits” for Sept.: 11,064
Average for the month: 369
High: 1473, on Sept. 8
Low: 49, on Sept. 23

Thanks to anyone for the “steady” stream of traffic.  I’m going to guess some of this traffic is coming from RSS readers, that are continuously coming to the site to fetch anything new. Thank you, RSS. 

The high is curious. It’s far higher than the average, as you can see. Came on a day when I posted about my new toy, the Nano. What made it popular? Trying to figure it out. One speculation … I teased the post with a short one, saying look here I’ll write more later. Perhaps the crowds of readers that I have kept returning, waiting impatiently for me to post? What readers? Where are you? Speak up. If you happened to peruse the site on 9/8 (think back. I think it was a Saturday), please let me know why, so that I can repeat.

As for the low, well Sept. 23 was a day I did not post, exhausted by a weekend of activities that required me to be somewhere other than in front of my laptop. I think it’s reasonable to assume that with nothing new posted, perhaps my faithful readers, whoever you are, didn’t bother to go to the blog because the RSS feeds indicated no new stories, on top of the fact that there is a good chance that my readers are the same people I was hanging with that weekend, also exhausted from a flurry of activities.

Graphical representation of September traffic:

Later on, I’ll have to see what the weather was like on these days. See if there is any correlation between good weather in Seattle (where I’m going to guess a lot of you are from, maybe?) and fewer page views. Stay tuned.