Google Analytics is a great toy. I use it to track the number of visits that my websites get. This particular blog (
http://john-the-revelator-does-karaoke.blogspot.com/) is pretty busy, I am proud to say. Since January, this blog has been visited by 3,007 different people from
1,457 different cities in 111 different countries. I have had visitors
from every state in the nation, with the exception of Alaska. Sarah is
just not that big into karaoke, I guess.
I just noticed something odd, though. A
post of mine from the beginning of April suddenly started getting a lot of visits.
From the date I posted (April 3, 2011) to July 22, the page was viewed a total of 177 times by 108 different people. That's kind of impressive, but not totally surprising. I mean... it's about Julie Newmar! And patents! What could be a better prescription for a popular blog post?
But on July 23rd, it took off. There were 27 page views on that
one day, and 37 on the next. As I write this (July 25 at 8:30 PM) there
have been 15 today.
It is not totally weird for a page to get that many visits. I have a number of popular posts: My post on
tele-osculation devices has seen 258 visits in the last month. And nobody even knows what that word means!
What is weird is that it suddenly took off. Up until the beginning of July, the site had
not seen more than 9 visits in a day. Holy blog post about Julie Newmar,
Batman! I need to get to the bottom of this! Why am I suddenly getting so many visits? Could this be the work of the Riddler????
My fingers flashed over the keys at the Google Analytics site. I quickly found that this was probably not the work of one person. The visits came from 62 different cities, with Oxnard, CA, Louisville, KY, Dunn Loring, VA and Parsippany, NJ heading up the list. I am hard pressed to see a pattern.
It occurred to me to check the news to see if Julie Newmar happened to have been in the mews - excuse me - the news recently. Sure enough. I found that, along with Adam West and Burt Ward, she
spoke at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 25th, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Batman TV series.
So, I missed by big chance to see Julie in person. I could have gone to San Diego. Of course, I would have been mostly bored by the conference cuz I am not really all that into comic books. But... I hold on to the hope that Julie herself might read this blog post and send me an email. Maybe she will visit Milwaukee and we can go to Starbucks and talk about patents?
Then again, maybe this post is all about the power of the internet to connect things and also about how to get your website noticed. That part is kinda cool.
