I’ve Just Gone Over Two Million Page Reads

It’s taken 2243 days, a little over 6 years, to reach this milestone. It’s an amazing number to me. No one expects to put a personal site on and hit numbers like that.

blog-counter.jpgIt’s tough to read large numbers without commas. Here: 2,000,008. That’s two million and eight. I just took the number on the screenshot off my website.

It’s taken 2243 days, a little over 6 years, to reach this milestone. It’s an amazing number to me. No one expects to put a personal site on and hit numbers like that.

The counter is triggered by some simple javascript. That means it only counts humans and not the myriad robotic crawlers who hit websites hoping to glean some content they can turn into cash. Javascript slows them down so they turn it off.

It’s not 100% accurate. Nothing is. That’s a surprising part of running a website. Everything is digital, yet this counter shows many fewer hits than a tracker from Google I also use. Anyway, this is the one I’ve traditionally chosen to follow.

This blog has never been promoted except on the Internet. I have never mentioned it on TV. That’s not to say I don’t do things to maximize the impressions–I do. It’s not a business and it’s not run like one.

It’s been mentioned by me a million times, but this blog turned me into a writer. I’d never enjoyed writing and had never found the discipline to do something on a daily basis.

I like rewriting. I constantly rewrite. No blog entry is as it was the first time I typed it. Often, if I reread an entry, I’ll go back and punch up the prose. It doesn’t matter how long ago it was posted.

Thank you for reading my stuff.

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