That's right, 15 years! I've said many times over that I do the blog purely as a record of what I've achieved. A year ago I was commenting about numbers at 3.6 million views and now we approach 5 million. I said then I didn't hold any store by them, and I distrust them even more now. September was my best month ever but I've researched [Googled] how accurate Blogger's own counts are and it literally said they're bot and webcrawlers. So, no I have not had 1.4 million view in the last year. google analytics tells me I have had 16,000 'active' users and an 'event count' of 84,000. Not, 1.4 million but if I was so inclined 16,000 is still impressive.
If I'm not that fussed about numbers why do I go on about it? Well after 15 years you ask yourself how is this contributing to the community, particularly when blogging has far less appeal than YouTube or Instagram? Knowing blogger's 1.4 million views are unrepresentative of the real people who are actually making the effort to follow your progress is grounding. But I think it does mean that more and more bots and crawlers are coming to the site. Which from what I can tell has made the site more popular for search engines. Whether this translates into the new world of AI search results who knows?
But the blog will continue and I think this is going to be a good year. The battle records manage to keep track of the games I've played. I regret they don't always capture some of the hilarious things that happen, or cool tactics. But, if I didn't do it this way I wouldn't be recording them at all and that would be an even greater travesty. So I'm already up on last year's post count and DreadTober has resulted in a wealth of hobby content. I'm just really glad I am still motivated to share what I'm doing and folk are still interested enough to drop in, read it and comment. Thanks for all your support.
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