Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity another 7 months since I hit the 4 million mark and now I have 5 million on the clock... But as I mentioned the other day they're mostly bots and crawlers. I may have had 1.4 million views in the last year. But google analytics tells me I've 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 for a hobby blog.
Anyway, as misrepresentative as that 5 million may be, blogger has been keeping track of it since day one. So, I'm not about to ignore it, whatever the milestone actually means. Just out of curiosity I nipped over to Faeit 212. This used to be the number one blog for news and rumours, and he used to have huge traffic. However, there hasn't been a new post since May 2023, but he's on 280 million 'blogger' hits! And you can see from the graph there's been a lot recently. Maybe I should just stop posting? Ha, ha.
Well, I enjoy reading your posts, so that's at least one reaI person (I swear I am not a bot...). I looked into this a bit and I wonder if a couple of AI models have been cranking away learning off our material. Google changed a setting to limit AI learning a while back and I took a hit to my numbers, which I already knew were overinflated.
ReplyDeleteI know I was asked year's ago by someone doing a research paper if I would allow my blog to be used for something. I didn't realise what for but I think I now know, as I'm aware of 'large language models' now!
DeleteEven if there are some Abominable Intelligences around to snoop on our blogs, I do still enjoy seeing the number go up! And celebrating milestones is part of this as well!
ReplyDeleteSince the start of October my nubers seem to have normalised, so there might be hope for the significance of the viewership.
It's a number, blogger seems to think its relevant and it does start from the beginning of the blog, which Google Analytics doesn't. Sop I acknowledge the number and definitely laud it as legit on LinkedIn! 😂
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