It's fun to track how many visitors came to your website each day! It's rewarding to know that people are looking at your hard work and appreciating what you provide them. On Weebly, the tool I use to create my website, I am able to track how many Pageviews and how many Unique Visitors visited my site each day.
Yesterday, a total of 2340 pages were viewed, and that shattered my previous record of around 1500! When I woke up yesterday morning, there had already been over 1000 page views! I don't know what happened, because I wasn't excessively active on Twitter in the past couple days, and I didn't really publish many new pages in that time span!
I tried to do a little research. First, I started by looking at Google Analytics to see who was actively looking at my site. There were very few, so that didn't really tell me much. Then, I tracked its progress through the day. It seemed as though the normal amount of people were looking at a wide selection of pages, not just one particular one. I Googled my website address to see if anyone had recently published it, but no luck.
After all of that, I came to the conclusion that perhaps it was Google that was doing a view of each page on my site for its cache. Since I assume that I have around 750+ pages on my site, that could have been enough to send the page view totals sky high (for me)!
Anyway, I realize that most people wouldn't care much about this sort of thing, but I enjoyed trying to figure this one out! It's nice to know that we have so many tools at our disposal to help us solve our problems these days!
Yesterday, a total of 2340 pages were viewed, and that shattered my previous record of around 1500! When I woke up yesterday morning, there had already been over 1000 page views! I don't know what happened, because I wasn't excessively active on Twitter in the past couple days, and I didn't really publish many new pages in that time span!
I tried to do a little research. First, I started by looking at Google Analytics to see who was actively looking at my site. There were very few, so that didn't really tell me much. Then, I tracked its progress through the day. It seemed as though the normal amount of people were looking at a wide selection of pages, not just one particular one. I Googled my website address to see if anyone had recently published it, but no luck.
After all of that, I came to the conclusion that perhaps it was Google that was doing a view of each page on my site for its cache. Since I assume that I have around 750+ pages on my site, that could have been enough to send the page view totals sky high (for me)!
Anyway, I realize that most people wouldn't care much about this sort of thing, but I enjoyed trying to figure this one out! It's nice to know that we have so many tools at our disposal to help us solve our problems these days!