Bloggy stats

Every now and again I have a look at the stats just to see what's what.

Below is a weird happening in page views, I think that's what you would call a spike!




In Jan 2016 I had  71,140 page views, more than any other month


What was happening in January 2016?

Colin was diagnosed with cancer, was it this that made everyone look or was it because I posted on 29/31 days or was it because it was winter and everyone had nothing to do except peruse blogs?

Then there was that odd month with dozens of mysterious page views from Russia............ that made the Russian bit of the all time map turn green






Although  on a normal day  it looks like this


According to one bit the most page views over all time are......

30 Ways to Save £1-- Day 30 + 50p for Christmas de... 30 Nov 2013, 17 comments	1837
Green Tomato Chutney 31 Jul 2015, 17 comments	1446
The pictures that made 2015 31 Dec 2015, 64 comments	1208
Plan C 17 Oct 2016, 90 comments	1174
A favourite post from long ago in a different worl... 13 Jul 2016, 28 comments	1148

But look, what about this post with 1698 page views it ought to be in that list above

A £20 shopping list Edit | View | Share | Delete (Whoops,it's disappeared over to the right, cant get it back!) And so should this with 1773 Lots done despite the weather Edit | View | Share | Delete And on the post page number one should say 2211 not 1837 30 Ways to Save £1-- Day 30 + 50p for Christmas decorations! Local events Sue in Suffolk 17 2211 30/11/2013 Oh goodness me, there have been 16,028 comments! Sue in Suffolk 16 1773 26/03/2014

Sue in Suffolk

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1698

20/01/2015

But enough of this fiddling about...........................

Do you know this quote................
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. ... The term was popularised in United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."





Back to normal soon
Sue