Blogging Ottinger (tim)Why Do People Come Here?
Ignoring the advice to never blog about blogging…
I have been watching my blog traffic for some time. I have some days with relatively heavy hits (heavy for me being maybe 300+) and some light days (100 or so). On the days when I have over 400 hits, I suspect a lot of spidering going on in the world.
I don’t know how often the same people visit, whether I have several hundred visiting every week or a hundred and some-odd people visiting every day. But I do know that by a large margin, most of the traffic here is “direct” meaning that people have bookmarked my site or are using rss readers to keep up with me. Thanks for hanging out with me.
The most popular pages are the home page and after that are my two popular programming papers. The first is the article on naming program variables, classes, and methods, and the second is an article on using the vim text editor (like a pro).
The second largest source of readership is from google. People are usually searching for some opinions or information about guitar stuff, one of the two popular papers above, or some forgotten lore about Linux or programming in general. Imagine that: outside of my circle of friends, my blog is primarily of interest to programming geeks and guitar nuts (AKA: my peers).
