Blogoscopy

You probably don't realize this, but a while back I signed up to use Google Analytics to see who was reading this crap. This being the holiday season, I decided that instead of hoarding all this great information to myself, I would share it with you - the consumer.

Here are some things I discovered about my readership:

There have been 41 "visits" and 58 "pageviews" since I started counting a couple weeks ago. I'm not sure what the difference between the two is. At any rate, not too shabby!

My popularity seems to be highest on the East Coast, particularly in the Boston and New York urban core regions. Someone also visited from Tewksbury. Hello, Tewksbury! And someone visited from Blackwood, Pennsylvania. I'm not making this up.

I'm not as big on the West Coast or in the Heartland, with only one visit from Bellevue, Washington and one from Washington, Illinois. I promise to do more to try to appeal to a nationwide audience; suggestions are always welcome.

I've got some international appeal, with a visitor from Vancouver and one from Laval, Quebec. I didn't even know where Laval is. Well, now I do. Sacre bleu!

About 30% of my visitors have been first-timers, and 70% repeat customers. I appreciate the loyalty, but at this early stage it would be great to have more new readers, so spread the word.

I've also found out that 73% of visits are "direct" and not linked to from another site. (You all should work on that, too.) As for the sites that are helping me out, facebook is doing its part with 4 referrals, and I've had referrals from blogs entitled liberaldelight.blogspot.com, ryanandsimone.blogspot.com, biggurlvideo.blogspot.com, booty-shorts.blogspot.com. Please send some business their way.

So, keep on reading (especially you, my new friend in Laval) and keep those numbers up, and I promise to write fewer throw-away B.S. posts about who's reading my blog.