who are we?

and are we communicating?... well, i am sending words out to you and you are reading them and every now and then one or a few of you communicate with me through comment or other means, but the stats tell me this blog might reach 2000 page views this month... 2000?... yes, 2000 page views... the odd stat is 3 comments... yes, 2000 page views and 3 comments... isn't that odd?... i mean, it makes me wonder if the page views are accurate or if they reflect actual people visiting or some web robots visiting... the top 4 referring urls account for 234 page views and the top 10 referring pages account for 307 views, so the vast majority come from pages that referred less than 7 views (which would mean something like 270 different sites sent readers here, roughly... who are these sites and how are they finding me?)... which leads me to the question - who are we and why are we meeting here like this? :)

meanwhile, so i have it recorded here for posterity, the medal count for the first day is in and the usa is third (though tied in total count for second)... china was the big winner with 4 golds (6 total) and italy second with 2 golds and 2 silvers (5 total)... the usa had 5 total, 1 gold, 2 solvers, 2 bronzes... see the rest and compare countries 2012 olympics medal counts with the full count here... and right over there on the right is - ta da - a medal count widget... there's an olympics news widget on the page where i got the medal count widget and a couple of other widgets too if you are a little bit geekish like me and like the olympics... shhhh, it's the stats that draw me in most :)

for the record and posterity and all that, some time after the olympics that medal count widget will be gone, so if you are reading this some time after the 2012 olympics and asked "what medal count widget?" while reading the previous paragraph, well, it was a temporary olympics stats thing, so never mind (nyuk nyuk, ya know?)...

so anyway, returning to the blogging world here, what's with these blogger stats anyway?... 2000 page views and 3 comments?... ok, so we've long known most of you stop in for a moment and have nothing to say which is perfectly fine - i just hope you felt your time here was worth your time here, ya know?... but even more odd and puzzling, 2000 page views with 10 sites sending about 16% of readers and the other 84% of readers coming from more than 270 other sites?... please explain :)

fun with numbers, everybody should have some :)