As techno-challenged as I may be, I’ve been tinkering with my blog lately, and it’s been a blast. You’ll notice the new font. Most of my regular blog readers, I’m guessing, are visually impaired. While the old font looked great on my computer at home, I took a quick peek at the blog at work today and noticed the font was really hard to read on that screen. So, I’m hoping perhaps this will be a bit easier on the eyes.
Also, I installed a counter. Yep, can’t help it. I’m a journalist egomaniac and I’ve just got to know if anyone is actually reading this. I can’t imagine why they would, but still, my curiosity got the better of me.
And what do you know. Someone is actually reading it! So far 156 people since I installed the counter a week ago in fact. Most, however, are probably just blog hopping as they really don’t stay long enough to actually read much, but almost half make a return visit.
But, about 25 percent of readers spend 20 minutes to an hour – so either someone is reading or there are a lot of people getting up to get a snack and take a potty break when my blog appears on their screen. Considering the subject matter of this blog is only of interest to a limited number of people, my ego was sufficiently satisfied.
The other fun thing was to look at where visitors are coming from. Ninety-two percent are from the United States (no surprises there), but there have been a number of hits from Australia, Japan, Canada and Portugal. I have reason to believe there may be a higher than average number of people with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome in Japan and Portugal, so I’m really curious to know if that was by chance, or if they were intentionally looking for something Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome related.
Also, I installed a counter. Yep, can’t help it. I’m a journalist egomaniac and I’ve just got to know if anyone is actually reading this. I can’t imagine why they would, but still, my curiosity got the better of me.
And what do you know. Someone is actually reading it! So far 156 people since I installed the counter a week ago in fact. Most, however, are probably just blog hopping as they really don’t stay long enough to actually read much, but almost half make a return visit.
But, about 25 percent of readers spend 20 minutes to an hour – so either someone is reading or there are a lot of people getting up to get a snack and take a potty break when my blog appears on their screen. Considering the subject matter of this blog is only of interest to a limited number of people, my ego was sufficiently satisfied.
The other fun thing was to look at where visitors are coming from. Ninety-two percent are from the United States (no surprises there), but there have been a number of hits from Australia, Japan, Canada and Portugal. I have reason to believe there may be a higher than average number of people with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome in Japan and Portugal, so I’m really curious to know if that was by chance, or if they were intentionally looking for something Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome related.
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