all these page visits (stats babble)

stats stats stats... i know, there are more interesting things to ramble on about, maybe starting a wordpress blog or continuing the tumblr or moving on the any of the new dailies (see cha-cha-cha-changes on the right) hoping to become the primary (blogs do have hopes, ya know)... but ego likes the numnbers, so just looking at the numbers, this blog is modestly popular... closing in on a hundred thousand page views this year, averaging more than a thousand a month over the seven years this blog has been alive and more than two thousand page views a month since about the summer of 2012 when it got such a rush of visits you'd have thought the world was coming to an end or something... so in my infinite ignorance, i think it's SPAM...

I see ridiculous numbers in my stats sometimes and see the visits coming from all sorts of stats or sales sites... in the past month drug sites from france and poland have combined for more than a thousand 'page visits'... a site called 'vampirestats' accounts for more page visits than any other site over the 7 years my blog has been around... in the past day about two dozen visits came from france and germany, each... over six hundred each from france and poland this month... russia and the unkraine are frequent countries on the list over the years... the referring urls are all sorts of drug sites lately... it's become meaningless over the years, except for my love of numbers and the imaginary fame it lets my ego pretends... yes, ego loves the illusion of popularity and overlooks the meaningless babble...

it becomes even more meaningless when i realize that the google stats make no numeric sense... for instance the stats say one page got 28 views in the past month and the top ten pages got 100 views in the month, yet the blog supposedly got more than 2,600 views in the same period... the 10th most visited page got 7 views, which means at least 350 pages got at least 7 views in the past month... yet when i look at individual pages, they don't have that many views... makes no sense...

one day last month the blog had almost 700 page views yet the individual pages didn't have any more than four or five views, so someone or some group from poland and france viewed at least seven hundred pages in one 24 hour period?... not likely...

the logical answer is a spambot or spider that creates fake views in my states hoping i will visit their pages or mention their pages in my blog so they might sell something...

that's all i know about the stats... as i said, ego likes them, even if they are meaningless, but ego is easy :)

narf :)