3,000,001 Pageviews (19/12/2025)It took me 12 years to reach the first million hits on this blog. After that, it took another five years to get to two million. It's taken a bit under a year and a half to clock up a third million.
Why? I don't really understand it. I presume that it's just an aberration of the search engine rankings. The more you have been looked at, the more you will be looked at.
And of course there's that ever-growing mass of past posts to attract text and image searches - from bots as well as humans? That must contribute, too.
I've also added a counter in the side panel since I last recorded one of these milestones. Perhaps that's also had some influence.
In any case, here they are: three sets of statistics from 2018, 2024 and 2025:
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3,000,010 Pageviews (5/8/24-19/12/2025)[1 year, 4 1/2 months]
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There are some other interesting features to observe. For instance, note the recent increase in traffic recorded on this graph:
Pageviews graph (19/12/2025)What is it that happened around the beginning of 2025 to justify this exponential increase? The top locations for traffic seem to have stayed much the same - though the United States is more dominant than in earlier surveys. Perhaps the mere fact of maintaining a blog has become more of an interesting novelty.
Top Locations of Pageviews (19/12/2025)No, what really interests me about these blog statistics is the large grey area among the "top referrers" of pageviews. Google search engines would, I would have thought, accounted for most of the traffic to this blog: but it seems not. The majority of the referrals are coming from - somewhere else; somewhere in the unknown reaches of the internet, somewhere in the grey ...
Top Referrers of Pageviews (19/12/2025)•
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