Posted by Jay Livingston
This blog has a small but select readership. I have data to back that up – at least the part about small. I use Google Analytics to track the number of visits. On Monday, the counter seemed to go haywire. When I checked it late in the afternoon, the number of visits was about 600,.
The mystery was soon solved since Google Analytics also shows where people had linked in from*. In this case it was Boing Boing. It had listed my post with the four charts on healthcare costs, and the hits just kept on coming. By day’s end, the total was nearly 2600. That’s what being Boinged will do.
The effect wears off quickly, though not as quickly as the euphoria.
*Google Analytics is not entirely trustworthy on this. It showed a dozens of referrals from a site for forums devoted exclusively to discussions of the Mazda Miata. Also several from a site which has items only about the making of wooden boats.
I am still reading your blog Jay. Take that boing!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine added my blog to something called stumble upon. I dunno what exactly it is, but my blog went from somelike 150-250 hits a day to close to 1000!
ReplyDeleteLike the blog btw. Added it to my blogroll.