Apparently, according to the increasingly irrelevant and inaccurate sitemeter, I went over 3 million unique visitors sometime in the last 24 hours.
Or at least the widget on my sidebar says so... when I drill down into the stats I'm like a week or so away...
...and as we all know by now, sitemeter isn't even a rough guess anymore...
But what the hell, it's what I've used since day 1 so I'll go by that.
Oh and it also says 4 million or so pageviews... something like two weeks ago.
I'm a month short of 8 years on this blog (first post was valentines day 2005), I average something like 35,000 sitemeter uniques a month, with 45,000 page views (google stats say it's more like 65-75,000 pageviews a month)
And of course that doesn't count RSS readers, which I would guess would be about double that (about 3/4 of my regular readers are feed readers, and about 1/3 of my hits are regulars).
Also, a surprising number of people seem to use Lawdog, MadOgre, and Borepatch as their own personal gunblogger reading list. Like a couple hundred people a day, including folks I know are regular readers, always seem to reach me from their links (them, and the firearms blog, and gunblogblacklist are my top referrers other than google. Google runs something between 1/3 and 1/6th of my total traffic on any given day).
Before "all cancer, all the time" two years ago, I was close to double that... and frankly I think people were reading blogs more then anyway...
I'm actually surprised I've retained that much readership given how little content I've been posting, and how little quality of it... Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
