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Disappointment, defeat and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

From Paulo Coelho’s great book, Brida. If you want to hang it on your wall, here’s a PDF version.

For this blog, I used to employ PopStats to get an idea of how many readers I have. I learned that I had a solid readership of about 100 souls per day.

A while ago, another Blog recommended GetClicky, which I gave a shot. It turned out that that one gives totally different statistics than the other one. So when WordPress started offering statistics as well, I installed their plug-in. Might be not so surprising, but again, I get different numbers.

Blog statistics are no exact science

Taking the last week as an example, the following numbers pop up:

• PopStats gives me a daily average of 126 visitors with 2618 hits, or roughly 20 hits per visitor.
• GetClicky calculates an average of 31 visitors with 60 actions per day, or roughly 2 actions per visitor.
• And the WordPress gives me 34 visitors per day, and doesn’t elaborate on the hits.

While I would love PopStats to be right, it seems more likely that I get just above 30 visitors a day. Not that the amount of people is so important to me, but these 30 visitors click on average only once before leaving again. Which suggest, that they do not find the content very interesting. Add to this the average number of comments per day (close to zero), and I start to wonder where this blog is going. Maybe it is beyond its half life?