And probably never will again. As a general rule I don't pay much attention to how many readers I've gotten or how many followers I have. A crude explanation is I don't think I have much control over that. Keep writing and keep posting.
Within the last couple of weeks, I noticed I was getting more page views some days. Some days there were 1500 views and 2000 would be a very popular post. Other days were getting 20,000 and up into the 40,000s. It was mostly on popular topics (of course), and I was getting close to having had 10 million total page views here in the 15th year of the blog's life. I thought it was going to make 10 million last night, but it didn't and that's honestly part of why I did the "three sigma" (far from normal) post last night.
It made it today.
Screen snip off this PC with a couple of red, comma-like things added to show the number when I grabbed it was 10,019,164. That was 7:45 PM EDT, 2345 UTC on September 7. Which has no traceability to the time when the total went over 10,000,000. The middle box on the top says I have 5379 posts, making this one #5380. I've posted when I hit some big round numbers of posts before like 4000 and 5000 but not every thousand.
I think posting something like this is probably a good way to know I had nothing else. But that belies that Starbase Boca Chica static fired a booster today, Booster 15, supposedly chosen for Flight Test 11. We hear rumors that FT-11 will be going more quickly than the 9 to 10 delay.
Cool about the posts and the visits.
ReplyDeleteCool about SpaceX moving forward with B15 and potentially FT11.
Woo Hoo! SiG is a Tier 1 Influencer! We knew that which is why we are here. Thank you for all your hard work.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how you muddle along for a long while, then BAM! 10 million views. Crazy, huh.
ReplyDeleteKeep on posting, fellow blogger!
That's a hell of a milestone SiG!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!!
Yay!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your continued work.
Huzzah, SiG!
ReplyDeleteI will note that I have seen an "increase" in views as well for no good reason that I can think of.
As an aside, I read or heard last week that there was some idea to use blogs to train AI. I do wonder if at some level there is scraping of content going on.
DeleteI've noticed daily readings going up for a few days or a couple of weeks at a time, then going back to the background "normal" many times over the years. I figured it was some sort of attempt to track down websites to attack or monitor that some group had run. Could be anything from "Russian disinformation" to Nigerian scammers to ?? I don't know what.
DeleteUsing blogs to train AI seems uniquely stupid. Which is like AI itself. I read some of the stuff centered on MAHA, and I'd really want my AI to be better at high school chemistry than that.
t another blog I follow, the guy was commenting on the unusual number of views he's just gotten.
ReplyDeleteThe "Ask Woody" newsletter mentioned so many hits it was first thought to be a DDOS attack. More investigation suggested it was AI engines "scraping" the net for training. This could be a big problem with AI until steps are taken to control it.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the milestone, SiG !
ReplyDeleteLeigh
Whitehall, NY
Congrats!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm right behind you!
ReplyDeleteTraffic is up significantly the last year and I have no idea why. Singapore was a huge hunk of it for months, but lately Brazil seems to be where it's hitting my place.
GURPS is big in Brazil, and I blog about GURPS stuff a lot, but I doubt that's it.
You’re being crawled by bots devouring content for LLMs. It’s happening across Blogspot.
ReplyDeleteIt's coming with more comments and engagement too. If the commenters would just SIGN their comments, my other readers would get to see them too.
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